Tungsten
The townsite of Tungsten is located at Cantung Mine in the Northwest Territories. It is accessible from Watson Lake, Yukon via the Nahanni Range Road.
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in the Northwest Territories, Canada
- Also known as: “Cantung” and “Tungsten, Northwest Territories”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tungsten (Cantung) Airport.
Tungsten (Cantung) Airport
Aerodrome
Tungsten
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.96814° or 61° 58′ 5″ north
Longitude
-128.23108° or 128° 13′ 52″ west
Elevation
1,145 metres (3,757 feet)
IATA airport code
TNS
United Nations Location Code
CA TNS
Open location code
94HHXQ99+7H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
Discover Tungsten from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Russian—“Tungsten” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Tungsten”
- Dutch: “Tungsten, Northwest Territories”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تنجستن”
- Esperanto: “Tungsteno”
- German: “Tungsten (Nordwest-Territorien)”
- German: “Tungsten”
- Irish: “Tungsten”
- Japanese: “タングステン地区”
- Russian: “Тунгстен”
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