Burin
Burin is a town on the Burin Peninsula in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Burin Peninsula is often affectionately nicknamed "The Boot" due to its resemblance to the footwear when seen on a map, with the town of Burin located near the "heel".
- Type: Town with 2,240 residents
- Description: town in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Also known as: “Burin, Newfoundland and Labrador”
Burin
- Categories: town of Newfoundland and Labrador and locality
- Location: Burin, Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
47.03672° or 47° 2′ 12″ north
Longitude
-55.16663° or 55° 9′ 60″ west
Population
2,240
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CA BUI
Open location code
88V62RPM+M8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Ukrainian—“Burin” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Burin”
- Cebuano: “Burin”
- Chinese: “布林”
- Corsican: “Burin”
- Danish: “Burin”
- Dutch: “Burin”
- French: “Burin”
- German: “Burin”
- Indonesian: “Burin”
- Italian: “Burin”
- Low German: “Burin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burin”
- Portuguese: “Burin”
- Romanian: “Burin”
- Spanish: “Burin”
- Swedish: “Burin”
- Tahitian: “Burin”
- Turkish: “Burin”
- Ukrainian: “Б’юрін”
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