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Once part of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon is now a separate territory bordering on British Columbia in the south and Alaska in the west. Compared with the old Northwest Territories, it's a mere midget in size, but with 483,450 sq. km (186,660 sq. miles), it's immense by most other standards.
The entire territory has a population of only 31,000 -- over half of them (23,000) living in Whitehorse. The capital of the Yukon is a late arrival on the scene. It was established only in the spring of 1900, fully 2 years after the stampeders had swarmed into Dawson City. But Whitehorse, on the banks of the Yukon River, is the logical hub of the Territory, and it became the capital in 1953 after Dawson fizzled out along with the gold.
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