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Descriptor English: Yukon Territory
Descriptor Spanish: El Yukón
Descriptor Territorio de Yukón
Scope note: Territorio del noroeste de Canadá, que linda al norte con el Océano Ártico, al sur con la Columbia Británica, y al oeste con Alaska. Su capital es Whitehorse. Su nombre procede del rio Yukón, el indio yu-kun-ah, que significa rio grande. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1367 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p608)
Descriptor Portuguese: Yukon
Descriptor French: Territoire du Yukon
Entry term(s): Yukon
Tree number(s): Z01.107.567.176.929
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015874
Scope note: A territory of northwest Canada, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the south by British Columbia, and on the west by Alaska. Its capital is Whitehorse. It takes its name from the Yukon River, the Indian yu-kun-ah, meaning big river. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1367 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p608)
Annotation: a division of northwest Canada
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Previous Indexing: Canada (1966-1989)
History Note: 90
DeCS ID: 24917
Unique ID: D015874
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: 1995/02/21
Yukon Territory - Preferred
Concept UI M0024303
Scope note A territory of northwest Canada, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the south by British Columbia, and on the west by Alaska. Its capital is Whitehorse. It takes its name from the Yukon River, the Indian yu-kun-ah, meaning big river. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1367 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p608)
Preferred term Yukon Territory
Entry term(s) Yukon



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