Haida Gwaii
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![Houses and totem poles, Skidegate, 1878](/Images/godic/202502/05/Haida_Houses0122.jpg")
![The northern Pacific Northwest Coast, showing the position of the archipelago in relation to other islands in the region. The southern half of Prince of Wales Island is Kaigani Haida territory, but is not included in the term Haida Gwaii.](/Images/godic/202502/05/NWCoast1a0122.png")
Haida Gwaii (/ˈhaɪdə ɡwaɪ/ HY-də-GWY; Haida:X̱aayda gwaay; literally "Islands of the Haida people"), formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands and the Charlottes, is an archipelago on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Approximately half of its population is of the Haida people.