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1. A North American river; flows into the Bering Sea; Also called: Yukon River.
2. A territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s; Also called: Yukon Territory.
3. City in Oklahoma (USA); zip code 73099.
Territory of NW Canada.
area 483,500 sq km/186,631 sq mi.
capital Whitehorse.
towns and cities Dawson, Mayo.
features named for its chief river, the Yukon; includes the highest point in Canada, Mount Logan, 6,050 m/19,850 ft; Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park, which extends into Alaska.
industries gold, silver, lead, zinc, oil, natural gas, coal.

history settlement dates from the gold rush 1896–1910, when 30,000 people moved to the Klondike river valley (silver is now worked there). It became separate from the Northwest Territories 1898, with Dawson as the capital 1898–1951. Construction of the Alcan Highway during World War II helped provide the basis for further development.

River in North America, 3,185 km/1,979 mi long, flowing from Lake Tagish in Yukon Territory into Alaska, where it empties into the Bering Sea.