Kangirsuk
Kangirsuk is an Inuit village in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. It is 230 kilometres north of Kuujjuaq, between Aupaluk and Quaqtaq. The community is only accessible by air and, in late summer, by boat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Steven Roberge, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 549 residents
- Description: northern village in Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Bellin”, “Kangirsuq”, “Payne bay”, and “Payne Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kangirsuk Airport.
Kangirsuk Airport
Aerodrome
Kangirsuk Airport is located 0.5 nautical miles east of Kangirsuk, Quebec, Canada. It has a single gravel runway, Runway 03/21 which is 3521 feet long.
Kangirsuk
- Categories: northern village and locality
- Location: Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.01782° or 60° 1′ 4″ northLongitude
-70.01354° or 70° 0′ 49″ westPopulation
549Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)IATA airport code
YKGUnited Nations Location Code
CA YKGOpen location code
97GF2X9P+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1916529681OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5989218Wikidata ID
Q991147
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kangirsuk” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانجيرسوك”
- Atikamekw: “Kangirsuk”
- Basque: “Kangirsuk”
- Breton: “Kangirsuk”
- Bulgarian: “Кангирсук”
- Cebuano: “Kangirsuk”
- Corsican: “Kangirsuk”
- Cree: “ᑲᓐᒋᕐᓱᒃ”
- Danish: “Kangirsuk”
- Dutch: “Kangirsuk”
- French: “Kangirsuk”
- French: “Payne Bay”
- German: “Kangirsuk”
- Indonesian: “Kangirsuk”
- Inuktitut: “ᑲᖏᕐᓱᖅ”
- Irish: “Kangirsuk”
- Italian: “Kangirsuk”
- Japanese: “カンギルクス”
- Japanese: “カンギルスク”
- Low German: “Kangirsuk”
- Luxembourgish: “Kangirsuk”
- Polish: “Kangirsuk”
- Portuguese: “Kangirsuk”
- Romanian: “Kangirsuk”
- Russian: “Кангирсук”
- Spanish: “Bellin”
- Spanish: “Kangirsuk”
- Spanish: “Payne Bay”
- Swedish: “Kangirsuk”
- Tahitian: “Kangirsuk”
- Turkish: “Kangirsuk”
- Ukrainian: “Кангірсук”
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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 “Kangirsuk”. Photo: Steven Roberge, CC BY 2.0.