Cape Dorset
Kinngait, known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
- Type: Town with 1,440 residents
- Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “Kinngait”, “Sikusiilaq”, and “キンガイト”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Cape Dorset Airport.
Cape Dorset
- Categories: territorial hamlet of Canada and locality
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
64.23228° or 64° 13′ 56″ north
Longitude
-76.54322° or 76° 32′ 36″ west
Population
1,440
IATA airport code
YTE
UN/LOCODE
CA CDO
Open location code
97P56FJ4+WP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Cape Dorset” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Cape Dorset”
- Arabic: “كيب دورست”
- Arabic: “كينجيت”
- Armenian: “Քեյփ-Դորսետ”
- Bengali: “কেপ ডরসেট”
- Catalan: “Cape Dorset”
- Cebuano: “Cape Dorset”
- Chinese: “金盖特”
- Chinese: “開普多塞特”
- Danish: “Cape Dorset”
- Dutch: “Cape Dorset”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيب دورست”
- Estonian: “Cape Dorset”
- Finnish: “Cape Dorset”
- French: “Cape Dorset”
- French: “Kinngait”
- Galician: “Kinngait”
- German: “Cape Dorset”
- German: “Kinngait”
- Greek: “Κέιπ Ντόρσετ”
- Gujarati: “કેપ ડોર્સેટ”
- Hindi: “केप डोरसेट”
- Indonesian: “Cape Dorset”
- Inuktitut: “ᑭᙵᐃᑦ”
- Irish: “Kinngait”
- Italian: “Kinngait”
- Japanese: “ケープドーセット”
- Kannada: “ಕೇಪ್ ಡೋರ್ಸೆಟ್”
- Korean: “카페 도르셋”
- Latvian: “Keipdorseta”
- Lithuanian: “Keip Dorsetas”
- Malay: “Cape Dorset”
- Marathi: “केप डॉर्सेट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Dorset”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinngait”
- Persian: “کیپ دورست”
- Polish: “Kinngait”
- Portuguese: “Cape Dorset”
- Russian: “Кейп-Дорсет”
- Sinhala: “කේප් ඩොර්සෙට්”
- Spanish: “Cabo Dorset”
- Swedish: “Cape Dorset”
- Swedish: “Kinngait”
- Tamil: “கேப் டோர்செட்”
- Telugu: “కేప్ డోర్సెట్”
- Thai: “เคป ดอร์เซต”
- Turkish: “Cape Dorset”
- Ukrainian: “Кейп-Дорсет”
- Ukrainian: “Кіннгаіт”
- Urdu: “کیپ ڈورسٹ، نُناوُت”
- Vietnamese: “Cape Dorset”
- Welsh: “Kinngait”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Cape Dorset.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Cape Dorset Health Centre and Kinngait Health Centre.
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