Iqaluit (; ) is the largest city and territorial
capital of the
Canadian territory of
Nunavut. It was officially called
Frobisher Bay until 1987, after the name of the bay on whose shore it is sited. Iqaluit is located on the south coast of
Baffin Island at the head of
Frobisher Bay. As of the
2011 census the population was 6,699, an increase of 8.3 percent from the
2006 census; it has the lowest population of any capital city in Canada. Inhabitants of Iqaluit are called
Iqalummiut (singular:
Iqalummiuq).
