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Descriptor English: Northwest Territories
Descriptor Spanish: Territorios del Noroeste
Descriptor Territorios del Noroeste
Scope note: División de Canadá administrada federalmente. Su capital es Yellowknife. Desde el 1 de abril de 1999, la mayoría de las antiguas partes septentrional y occidental del territorio constituyen el nuevo territorio de Nunavut
Descriptor Portuguese: Territórios do Noroeste
Descriptor French: Territoires du Nord-Ouest (Canada)
Entry term(s): Northwest Territory
Tree number(s): Z01.107.567.176.564
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015873
Scope note: A federally administered division of Canada. Its capital is Yellowknife. The former northern and eastern-most parts of the Territory comprise the new territory of Nunavut, effective April 1, 1999.
Annotation: a division of northwestern Canada; do not confuse with NORTHERN TERRITORY in Australia
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Previous Indexing: Canada (1966-1989)
History Note: 90
DeCS ID: 24803
Unique ID: D015873
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/10/13
Revision Date: 1999/11/08
Northwest Territories - Preferred
Concept UI M0024302
Scope note A federally administered division of Canada. Its capital is Yellowknife. The former northern and eastern-most parts of the Territory comprise the new territory of Nunavut, effective April 1, 1999.
Preferred term Northwest Territories
Entry term(s) Northwest Territory



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