The Nunavik area, «the place where we live» in Inuktitut, extends over 560,000 squares kilometres in the Northern part of Quebec -one third of the province of Quebec. Nunavik is separated from Nunavut Territory by Hudson Bay to the west and Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay to the North.
 
Fourteen communities are located along the [...]

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 [...]

Puvirnituq is one of the 15 Inuit communities in Nunavik in the Northern Quebec, well known by non Inuit people as Povungnituk or POV; about 1400 people live there.
In Inuktitut, « puvirnituq » means « it smells rotten meat ». Two explanations are commonly given for the name of this village, according to Taamusi [...]