Lingan
Lingan is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Its population in 2021 was 229. Lingan is located on the shore of the Cabot Strait, northeast from Sydney, east of New Waterford and northwest of Glace Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 229 residents
- Description: general service area in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Also known as: “Lingan, Nova Scotia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lingan Generating Station.
Lingan Generating Station
Electrical generator
Photo: Ken Heaton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lingan Generating Station is a 620 MW Canadian coal-fired electrical generating station located in the community of Lingan in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Waterford and Glace Bay.
New Waterford
Town
New Waterford is an urban community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. New Waterford is situated 3½ km northwest of Lingan.
Glace Bay
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glace Bay is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton.
Lingan
- Categories: General Service Area and locality
- Location: Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.23304° or 46° 13′ 59″ northLongitude
-60.04746° or 60° 2′ 51″ westPopulation
229Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA LGNOpen location code
87RX6XM3+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 1216024985OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Turkish—“Lingan” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Lingan”
- Corsican: “Lingan”
- Danish: “Lingan”
- Dutch: “Lingan”
- French: “Lingan”
- German: “Lingan”
- Indonesian: “Lingan”
- Italian: “Lingan”
- Low German: “Lingan”
- Portuguese: “Lingan”
- Romanian: “Lingan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Liongan”
- Spanish: “Lingan”
- Swedish: “Lingan”
- Tahitian: “Lingan”
- Turkish: “Lingan”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St. Joseph Church and St. Joseph Cemetery.
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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 “Lingan”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.