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How to pronounce yukon

IPA transcription: ['ju,kɑn]

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['ju,kɑn]

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Noun

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

    Synonyms: river

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

    Synonyms: territory

Usage examples

  • Yukon Flats School District operates the Cruikshank School.
  • The participants came from the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Alaska.
  • The distributaries flow into the Yukon River at separate locations downstream of Fort Yukon.
  • Postal codes beginning with Y are located within the Canadian territory of Yukon.
  • The bulk of the population nests in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
  • Nulato residents are predominantly Koyukon Athabascan with trapping and subsistence lifestyle.
  • The company was based in Yukon, Oklahoma.
  • It is within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
  • The results of the work included some of the first maps of the Yukon.
  • The Yukon part of the Peel Watershed is undergoing land use planning.