Yellowknife (2006 population 18,700) is the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories. It is located on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, approximately 400 km. (250 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River. Yellowknife and its surrounding waterbodies were named after the local Yellowknives Dene First Nation, who made tools from regional copper deposits. The current population is ethnically mixed. Of the eleven official languages of the Northwest Territories, five are spoken in significant numbers in Yellowknife: Dene Suline, Dogrib, South and North Slavey, English, and French.
In the Dogrib language, the city is known as Somba K'e ("where the money is"). (...)
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