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The Mackenzie, Canada’s longest river

The east channel of the Mackenzie River looking toward Inuvik, Northwest Territories, photographed in 2015.
The east channel of the Mackenzie River looking toward Inuvik, Northwest Territories, photographed in 2015. View up Mackenzie River east channel to Inuvik, NT · Daniel Case · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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The Mackenzie River is Canada’s longest river. Statistics Canada reports that it stretches 4,241 km through the Northwest Territories, Alberta and British Columbia and drains an area of 1,805,200 km².

Scope & context

Figures from Statistics Canada’s archived 2012 Canada Year Book, which measures the river system across three jurisdictions; not a description of its communities or Indigenous names.

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