The Keewatin Region was a region of the Northwest Territories

Regions of the Northwest Territories

The regions of the Northwest Territories divide the Northwest Territories into two census divisions by Statistics Canada and five administrative regions by the government of the Northwest Territories.-Census divisions with their regional seats:...

, in use as an administrative and statistical division until the creation of Nunavut

Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

 in 1999. The majority of Keewatin Region fell on the Nunavut side of the boundary and was reconstituted as Kivalliq Region within the new territory, while a strip on the region's west side remaining in the NWT was transferred to Fort Smith Region

Fort Smith Region, Northwest Territories

Fort Smith Region is one of Statistics Canada's two census divisions of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It contains more than 77 percent of the population and more than 54 percent of the land area of the Northwest Territories. Its main economic centre is the territorial capital of Yellowknife...

. Kivalliq continues to be referred to as "Keewatin Region, Nunavut" in some circumstances, such as by Statistics Canada.

The regional seat of the Keewatin Region was Rankin Inlet.