Yukon
| Yukon Territory | |||
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| Autonomous territory of Alaska | |||
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| Capital | Whitehorse | ||
| Government | |||
| • Governor | TBD | ||
| • Lieutenant Governor | TBD | ||
| • Legislature | Yukon Legislative Assembly | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 482,443 km2 (186,272 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2019) | |||
| • Total | 42,986 | ||
| • Density | Bad rounding here0.089/km2 (Bad rounding here0.23/sq mi) | ||
| Demonym(s) | Yukonese | ||
| Website |
yukon | ||
Yukon, officially the Yukon Territory, is an autonomous territory of Alaska. It borders several provinces of Alaska to the west, has international borders with Manitoba to the east and Astoria to the south, and has a short coastline on the Arctic Ocean to the north. Whitehorse is the only city in the territory and is its administrative capital, and there are several small towns and nearly one hundred unincorporated settlements. It has the lowest population density out of all regions in Alaska, although its total population is in the middle among Alaskan provinces. Most of Yukon has a subarctic climate characterized by long winters and short summers.
Yukon was originally a territory of Canada before that country's dissolution in the aftermath of Great War I. Alaska sent its troops to restore order to the region and formally annexed Yukon as an autonomous territory in 1946.