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Rankin Inlet (or Kangiqiniq, meaning deep bay, as it is known in Inuktitut), is an active community of 2,800 people (2016) in mainland Nunavut. It is a government village and an air transport hub for travel between Nunavut and the center and west of Canada.
Rankin Inlet (Inuktitut: Kangiqliniq, Inuktitut: ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ or Kangirliniq, ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᖅ, or Kangir&iniq meaning deep bay/inlet) is an Inuit hamlet on Kudlulik Peninsula in Nunavut, Canada. It is the largest hamlet and second-largest settlement in Nunavut, after the territorial capital, Iqaluit. On the northwestern Hudson Bay, between Chesterfield Inlet and Arviat, it is the regional center for the Kivalliq Region.
In the 1995 Nunavut capital plebiscite, Iqaluit defeated Rankin Inlet to become the territorial capital of Nunavut.