page_title: List of municipalities in Nunavut
section_title: List of municipalities
hierarchical_section_title: List of municipalities in Nunavut / List of municipalities
caption_attribution_description: English: Rankin Inlet eskimo
context_page_description: Nunavut is the second-least populous of Canada's three territories with 35,944 residents as of 2016, but the largest territory in land area at 1,877,779 km². Nunavut's 25 municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass but are home to 99.83% of its population.
  Municipalities are created by the Government of Nunavut in accordance with the 2003 Cities, Towns and Villages Act and the 2003 Hamlets Act, which are statutes of the neighbouring Northwest Territories. According to the CTVA, a municipality is an "area within the boundaries of a municipal corporation, as described in the order establishing or continuing the municipal corporation" where a municipal corporation is either a city, town or village. According to the Hamlets Act, a municipality is similarly an "area within the boundaries of a hamlet, as described in the order establishing or continuing the hamlet". All of Nunavut's 25 municipalities are hamlets except for the City of Iqaluit, which is the territory's capital.
  The largest municipality by population in Nunavut is Iqaluit with 7,740 residents, home to 21.5% of the territory's population.
caption: Rankin Inlet, Nunavut's second-largest municipality, largest hamlet and runner-up in the 1995 capital city plebiscite
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