Yukon
| Yukon Territory | |||
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| Region of Alaska | |||
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| Capital | Whitehorse | ||
| Government | |||
| • President of the Regional Council | TBD | ||
| • Vice President of the Regional Council | TBD | ||
| • Legislature | Yukon Regional Council | ||
| 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 |
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Yukon, officially the Yukon Territory, is a region of Alaska, with a population of 42,986 as of 2021. It borders the Alaskan regions of Arctic Alaska and Interior Alaska to the west, Southeast Alaska to the southeast, and has international borders with Manitoba to the east and with 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. Alaskan troops then part of the Sierran Royal Army sent were deployed to restore order to the region and remained there before the area was formally annexed into Alaska in 1946.