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Yukon

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Noun

1. yukon, yukon river

a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea

2. yukon, yukon territory

a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Yukon

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noun
a territory of NW Canada, on the Beaufort Sea, between the Northwest Territories and Alaska: arctic and mountainous, reaching 5959 m (19 550 ft) at Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak; mineral resources. Capital: Whitehorse. Pop: 33 897 (2011). Area: 536 327 sq km (207 076 sq miles)
. Abbreviation: YT

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Yukon

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1. 
territory of NW Canada, east of Alas.: 186,661 sq mi (483,450 sq km); pop. 31,000; cap. Whitehorse
abbrev. YT: usually used with the: in full Yukon Territory
2. 
river flowing through this territory & Alas. into the Bering Sea: 1,979 mi (3,185 km)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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