Kuujjuaq, Nunavik’s largest community, is located on the west shore of the Kuuksuaq (Koksoak) river, about 50 km upstream from Ungava Bay. A population of 2,132 Kuujjuarmiut live there, as of the 2006 census (Statistics Canada).
 
Since the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in 1975, Kuujjuaq has become the administrative center [...]

Iglulik hamlet is located in Qikiqtaaluk region in Nunavut, on a small island in Foxe Basin, close to Melville Peninsula (West of Baffin Island). Iglulik means in Inuktitut «there is habitations (iglu means «house, dwelling» whereas «snow house» -or igloo in English or French- is expressed by igluvigaq). By 2006, a census of 1538 Iglulingmiut [...]

Sanikiluaq, the most southerly community of Nunavut, is located in the Hudson Bay, on the Belcher Islands, in the Qikiqtaaluk region. Sanikiluaq is the only community on the Belcher archipelago 60-80 miles distant from the west coast of Nunavik (Northern Québec). By 2006, a census of 744 inhabitants was taken in Sanikiluaq with a census [...]