Unorganized Kenora District

Unorganized Kenora District is an unorganized area in northwestern Ontario, Canada, in Kenora District. Constituting 98.39 percent of the district's land area, yet only 10.93 percent of its population, it is essentially the remainder of the district's territory after all incorporated cities, municipalities, townships, Indian reserves, and Indian settlements have been excluded. It is by far the largest municipal-equivalent level census division in Ontario, covering over 35 percent of the entire provincial land area, yet only about 0.05 percent of the population of Ontario.

CountryCanada

Time zonesUTC-5 (EST)

Postal code FSA

P

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Unorganized Kenora District
Unorganized area
Kenora, Unorganized
Scenery near Minaki
Coordinates: 53°00′N 89°00′W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
District	Kenora
Government
• Fed. riding	Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk, Kenora—Kiiwetinoong, Thunder Bay—Superior North
• Prov. riding	Kenora—Rainy River, Kiiwetinoong, Mushkegowuk—James Bay
Area [1]
• Land	388,982.20 km2 (150,186.87 sq mi)
Population  (2021)
• Total	7,475
• Density	0/km2 (0/sq mi)
Time zones	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Postal code FSA	P
Area codes	705, 807

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The unorganized area is gradually being reduced in size as adjacent municipalities annex portions of the unorganized area or new municipalities are formed. Balmertown, Barclay (now part of Dryden) and Ear Falls Improvement Districts were incorporated in 1950, 1963, and 1970 respectively, and in 1969, Sioux Lookout (formed in 1944 as an Improvement District) annexed portions of unorganized territory.^[2][3] Between the 2001 and 2021 censuses, its area shrank from 401,003.37 square kilometres (154,828.27 sq mi) to 388,982.2 square kilometres (150,186.9 sq mi),^[4][5]