Geographicals

Yukon Territory

A territory of northwest Canada, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the south by British Columbia, and on the west by Alaska. Its capital is Whitehorse. It takes its name from the Yukon River, the Indian yu-kun-ah, meaning big river. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1367 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p608)

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A territory of northwest Canada, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the south by British Columbia, and on the west by Alaska. Its capital is Whitehorse. It takes its name from the Yukon River, the Indian yu-kun-ah, meaning big river. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1367 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p608)

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  • Yukon

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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a division of northwest Canada

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90

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  • Canada (1966-1989)

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  1. Z01w.107w.567w.176w.929w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Yukon Territory. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015874. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015874
  2. Yukon Territory. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon
  3. Yukon Territory. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009