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Sainte-Foy

Sainte-Foy is a former city in central , Canada alongside the Saint Lawrence River. It was amalgamated into at the start of 2002. Most of the formerly independent municipality of Sainte-Foy is located in the borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge—initially as one of the two constituent districts of the former borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery.
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Wikipedia
Photo: Harfang, Public domain.
  • Type: Suburb with 76,300 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Quebec City; former independent city
  • Also known as: “Sainte Foy, Quebec”, “Sainte Foy, Quebec City”, “Sainte-Foy, Quebec”, and “Sainte-Foy, Quebec City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sainte-Foy Bus Station and Gaétan Boucher Oval.

Bus station
Photo: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ice rink
Photo: Cephas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an ice rink.

Library
Photo: Judicieux, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cap-Rouge and Saint-Romuald.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a former city in central , Canada, since 2002 within the borough Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge in . The site of the first attempted permanent French settlement in North America, Charlesbourg-Royal, is located at the confluence of the Rivière du and the Saint Lawrence River. is situated 4½ km southwest of Sainte-Foy.

Suburb
Photo: Bourgoinjp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a district within the Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est borough of Lévis, Quebec, , located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from . is situated 5 km southeast of Sainte-Foy.

Suburb
is a former city in central , . It was amalgamated into in 2002. It is located within the Borough of Les Rivières. Population : 11,504 , a shopping centre is located in . is situated 6 km northeast of Sainte-Foy.

Sainte-Foy

Latitude
46.77433° or 46° 46′ 28″ north
Longitude
-71.29944° or 71° 17′ 58″ west
Population
76,300
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
IATA airport code
BQC
United Nations Location Code
CA SFO
Open location code
87RCQPF2+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 281357945
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6325488
Wiki­data ID
Q14875569
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In Other Languages

From Atikamekw to Urdu—“Sainte-Foy” goes by many names.
  • Atikamekw: “Sainte-Foy”
  • Chinese: “聖福瓦”
  • French: “Sainte-Foy”
  • German: “Sainte-Foy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sainte-Foy”
  • Norwegian: “Sainte-Foy”
  • Russian: “Сент-Фуа”
  • Slovenian: “Sainte-Foy”
  • Swedish: “Sainte-Foy”
  • Turkish: “Sainte-Foy”
  • Urdu: “سین-فوے، کیوبک سٹی”

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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 “Sainte-Foy”. Photo: Harfang, Public domain.