The Copper Inuit lived within geographically defined subgroups or villages.
- Ahiagmiut: Ogden Bay
- Akuliakattagmiut: Cape Bexley
- Ekalluktogmiut: Ekalluk River, Albert Edward Bay; central Victoria Island
- Haneragmiut: Dolphin and Union Strait
- Haningayogmiut: Back River
- Kaernermiut: Back River
- Kangiryuarmiut: Prince Albert Sound, Cape Baring, central Victoria island; Nelson Head on Banks Island
- Kangiryuatjagmiut: Minto Inlet; between Minto inlet and Walker Bay
- Kilusiktogmiut: Victoria Island; Coronation Gulf area at the mouth of the Mackenzie River
- Kogluktogmiut: Bloody Falls on the Coppermine River, Dease River, and Great Bear Lake (McTavish Bay); Coronation Gulf, southeast of Cape Krusenstern
- Kogluktualugmiut (or Utkusiksaligmiut – “the dwellers of the place where there is pot stone”): Tree River (“Kogluktualuk”), 80 mi (130 km) east of the Coppermine River
- Kogluktuaryumiut: from the mouth of the Kogluktuaryuk River which flows into Grays Bay on up river; Grays Bay and the Coronation Gulf ice off of it
- Kugaryuagmiut: Kugaryuak River
- Nagyuktogmiut (or Killinermiut): Nagyuktok Island, one of the Duke of York Islands; central Coronation Gulf; Victoria Island northeast of Lady Franklin Point; mainland east of Tree River; Dismal Lakes near the head of Dease River; (“Deer Horn Esquimaux”)
- Noahonirmiut (or Noahdnirmiut): Liston and Sutton Islands in the Dolphin and Union Strait to the mainland: north of Rae River, south of Lambert Island
- Pallirmiut: mouth of the Rae River (Pallirk) and head of Dease River; Coronation Gulf, southeast of Cape Krusenstern
- Pingangnaktogmiut: Pingangnaktok (“it blows a land wind”), inland west of Tree River
- Puiplirmiut (or Puiblirmiut): Dolphin and Union Strait near Liston/Listen and Sutton Islands; also north and northeast of Simpson Bay on Victoria Island
- Ugyuligmiut: north of Minto Inlet
- Ulukhaktokmiut: Ulukhaktok (formerly known as Holman), after the copper used in ulu making that was found there
- Umingmuktogmiut: permanent village of Umingmaktok (Umingmuktog) on the western coast of Kent Peninsula; Bathurst Inlet
