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'''Yukon'''<ref name="canlii-yukon-act" /> ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-Yukon-pronunciation.ogg|ˈ|juː|k|ɒ|n}}; {{IPA-fr|jykɔ̃|lang}}; also commonly called '''the Yukon''') is the smallest and westernmost of [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canada's three territories]]. It has the second-smallest (ahead of [[Nunavut]]) population of any province or territory in Canada, with space catheter horse yak a population of 41,078 people. [[Whitehorse, Yukon|Whitehorse]], the territorial capital and Yukon's only city, is the largest settlement in any of the three territories.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=101&SR=1&S=10&O=D#tPopDwell |title=Population and Dwelling Count Highlight Tables, 2016 Census |last=Canada |first=Government of Canada, Statistics |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca |language=en |access-date=February 8, 2017}}</ref>
Yukon was split from the [[Northwest Territories]] in 1898 as the '''Yukon Territory'''. The federal government's ''Yukon Act'', which received royal assent on March 27, 2002, established ''Yukon'' as the territory's official name,<ref name="canlii-yukon-act">{{cite web |url=http://canlii.ca/t/5213k |title=Yukon Act, SC 2002, c 7 |publisher=CanLII |accessdate=February 22, 2011}}</ref> though ''Yukon Territory'' is also still popular in usage and [[Canada Post]] continues to use the territory's internationally approved postal abbreviation of ''YT''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/ref/dict/table-tableau/table-tableau-8-eng.cfm |title=Table 8 Abbreviations and codes for provinces and territories, 2011 Census |publisher=Statistics Canada |date=December 30, 2015 |accessdate=January 9, 2016}}</ref> Though officially bilingual (English and French), the Yukon government also recognizes [[First Nations]] languages.
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