page_title: Iqaluit
section_title: Neighbourhoods
hierarchical_section_title: Iqaluit / Cityscape / Neighbourhoods
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of Apex from the Road to Apex. Taken with Canon PowerShot SD780.
context_page_description: Iqaluit is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, its largest community, and its only city. It was known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, after the large bay on the coast of which the city is situated. In 1987, its traditional Inuktitut name was restored.
  In 1999, Iqaluit was designated the capital of Nunavut after the division of the Northwest Territories into two separate territories. Before this event, Iqaluit was a small city and not well known outside the Canadian Arctic or Canada, with population and economic growth highly limited. This is due to the city's isolation and heavy dependence on expensively imported supplies, as the city, like the rest of Nunavut, has no road or rail, and only has ship connections for part of the year to the rest of Canada. The city has a polar climate, influenced by the cold deep waters of the Labrador Current just off Baffin Island; this makes the city of Iqaluit cold, although it is well south of the Arctic Circle.
  As of the 2016 census, the population was 7,740, an increase of 15.5 percent from the 2011 census. Iqaluit has the lowest population of any capital city in Canada. Inhabitants of Iqaluit are called Iqalummiut.
context_section_description: Downtown (central)
  Happy Valley (north)
  Lake Subdivision (north) – residential area
  Lower Base (south)
  Lower Iqaluit (southeast)
  North 40 (northwest) – located on the north side of the airport
  Plateau Subdivision (northwest) – residential area
  Road To Nowhere (north)
  Tundra Valley (west)
  Tundra Ridge (west) – home to two of the city's schools and youth centre
  West 40 (southwest) – commercial area
caption: View of Apex, a suburban neighbourhood of Iqaluit.
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