Puvirnituq
Puvirnituq, also known by its previously official name of Povungnituk, is a northern village in Nunavik, on the Povungnituk River near its mouth on Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, Canada.
- Type: Town with 1,690 residents
- Description: northern village in Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Povungnituk”, “Povungnituq”, “Puvirnituk”, “Повунгнітук”, “Повунґнітук”, and “ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ Puvirnituq”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Puvirnituq Airport and Big Island.
Puvirnituq
- Categories: northern village and locality
- Location: Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.03939° or 60° 2′ 22″ north
Longitude
-77.27092° or 77° 16′ 15″ west
Population
1,690
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
YPX
Open location code
97G42PQH+QJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Puvirnituq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوفيرنيتوك”
- Atikamekw: “Puvirnituq”
- Cebuano: “Puvirnituq”
- Chinese: “普维尔尼图克”
- Cree: “ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒃ”
- Dutch: “Puvirnituq”
- French: “Puvirnituq”
- Galician: “Puvirnituq”
- German: “Puvirnituq”
- Inuktitut: “ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ”
- Irish: “Puvirnituq”
- Italian: “Puvirnituq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puvirnituq”
- Polish: “Puvirnituq”
- Portuguese: “Puvirnituq”
- Russian: “Пувирнитук”
- Spanish: “Puvirnituq”
- Swedish: “Puvirnituq”
- Turkish: “Puvirnituq”
- Ukrainian: “Пувірнітук”
- Urdu: “پویرنیتوک”
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