Whapmagoostui

Whapmagoostui ᐙᐱᒫᑯᔥᑐᐃ
Cree community
Partial view of the village, as seen from the hills to the east
Whapmagoostui
Coordinates: 55°17′N 077°45′W / 55.283°N 77.750°W / 55.283; -77.750[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Nord-du-Québec
RCM-Equivalent	Eeyou Istchee
Established	1821 (HBC post)
Incorporated	1978
Government
• Type	Cree territory
• Chief	Louisa Wynne
• Federal riding	Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou
• Prov. riding	Ungava
Area [2]
• Total	202.49 km2 (78.18 sq mi)
• Land	190.83 km2 (73.68 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	1,022
• Density	5.2/km2 (13/sq mi)
• Change (2016–21)	0.6%
• Dwellings	251
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Area code	819 (929 exchange)
Website	www.whapmagoostuifn.ca

Whapmagoostui (Cree: ᐙᐱᒫᑯᔥᑐᐃ/Wâpimâkuštui, "place of the beluga") is the northernmost Cree village in Quebec, Canada, located at the mouth of the Great Whale River (French: Grande Rivière de la Baleine) on the coast of Hudson Bay in Nunavik. About 906 Cree with about 650 Inuit,^[4] living in the neighbouring village of Kuujjuarapik. The community is accessible only by air (Kuujjuarapik Airport) and, in late summer, by boat. Whapmagoostui is about 250 km (160 mi) north of the nearest Cree village, Chisasibi.

Although the permanent cohabitation of Inuit and Cree at the mouth of the Great Whale River goes back only 1950, the two nations were rubbing shoulders in the area for a very long time, with the Inuit close to the coast and the Cree more in the interior.