Lake Mégantic
Lake Mégantic is a large body of water in Québec, Canada, located in the Appalachian Mountains near the U.S. border. It is a source of the Chaudière River which drains into the St Lawrence River at Québec City.Photo: Richard Coté, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Frontenac, Québec, Canada
- Also known as: “Lac Megantic”, “Lac Mégantic”, and “Lake Megantic”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piopolis and Lac-Mégantic.
Piopolis
Village
Photo: Bouchecl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Piopolis is a municipality of about 400 people in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region in Quebec, Canada. The name of the town means, 'city of the Pope' in recognition of the service of loyal Roman Catholics who answered the call by Pope Pius IX to defend The Vatican in 1860. Piopolis is situated 3½ km southwest of Lake Mégantic.
Lac-Mégantic
Photo: Jacques Dupont, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lac-Mégantic is a town of 6000 people in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, near the Maine border.
Frontenac
Village
Photo: Richard Coté, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frontenac is a municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in Estrie, Quebec, Canada, on the Canada–United States border. Its population was 1,650 as of the Canada 2011 Census. Frontenac is situated 7 km northeast of Lake Mégantic.
Lake Mégantic
- Category: body of water
- Location: Estrie, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Lake Mégantic” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “lac Mégantic”
- Cebuano: “Lac Mégantic”
- Chinese: “梅冈蒂克湖”
- Chinese: “梅干提克湖”
- Dutch: “Lac Mégantic”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ميجانتيك”
- French: “lac Mégantic”
- French: “Lac Mégantic”
- German: “Lac Mégantic”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lac Mégantic”
- Portuguese: “Lago Mégantic”
- Slovenian: “Lac Mégantic”
- Swedish: “Lac Mégantic”
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