Cardigan
Cardigan was a municipality that held community status in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was a fishing community in eastern Kings County. The community was named by Welsh farmers, later it was thought to be named after James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan, later Duke of Montague.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 269 residents
- Description: rural municipality in Prince Edward Island
- Also known as: “Cardigan, Prince Edward Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brudenell River Golf Course.
Brudenell River Golf Course
Golf course
Brudenell River Golf Course is a public golf course located in Brudenell, Prince Edward Island. The course is an eighteen-hole course built by the provincial government of Prince Edward Island and was originally opened in 1969. Brudenell River Golf Course is situated 3½ km southeast of Cardigan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lorne Valley and Montague.
Lorne Valley
Village
Lorne Valley was a municipality that held a community status in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was incorporated in 1978. On September 28, 2018, it was combined with six other municipalities to create the town of Three Rivers. Lorne Valley is situated 7 km northwest of Cardigan.
Montague
Photo: GRDN711, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Montague is a community of 2000 people in the town of Three Rivers in Kings County, Prince Edward Island. Montague is the largest population centre in the county and straddles the Montague River.
Georgetown
Town
Photo: Verne Equinox, CC BY 3.0.
Georgetown is a community located within the municipality of Three Rivers in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is the Capital of Kings County. Georgetown is situated 9 km southeast of Cardigan.
Cardigan
- Categories: rural municipality of Canada and locality
- Location: Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.23289° or 46° 13′ 58″ northLongitude
-62.61831° or 62° 37′ 6″ westPopulation
269Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA CDGOpen location code
87RV69MJ+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 2184535515OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Turkish—“Cardigan” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Cardigan”
- Cebuano: “Cardigan”
- Corsican: “Cardigan”
- Danish: “Cardigan”
- Dutch: “Cardigan”
- French: “Cardigan”
- German: “Cardigan”
- Indonesian: “Cardigan”
- Italian: “Cardigan”
- Low German: “Cardigan”
- Portuguese: “Cardigan”
- Romanian: “Cardigan”
- Spanish: “Cardigan”
- Swedish: “Cardigan, Prince Edward Island”
- Swedish: “Cardigan”
- Tahitian: “Cardigan”
- Turkish: “Cardigan”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Canada’s Smallest Library and Fire Station/Town Office.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cardigan”. Photo: Verne Equinox, CC BY 3.0.