Sydney Mines
Sydney Mines is a community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1784, and incorporated as a town in 1889, Sydney Mines has a rich history in coal production although mining activity has now ceased.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 12,400 residents
- Description: human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Also known as: “Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Sydney.
North Sydney
Photo: Michel Rathwell, CC BY 2.0.
North Sydney is a community of 5,700 people on the eastern shore of Cape Breton Island on the north shore of Sydney Harbour. It is mostly a service centre for the ferry traffic to Newfoundland with a number of restaurants and motels.
Sydney Mines
- Categories: community, former town, and locality
- Location: Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.23402° or 46° 14′ 3″ northLongitude
-60.22399° or 60° 13′ 26″ westPopulation
12,400Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA SMIOpen location code
87RX6QMG+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 410363184OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Sydney Mines” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sydney Mines”
- Cebuano: “Sydney Mines”
- Chinese: “悉尼矿区”
- Chinese: “悉尼礦區”
- French: “Sydney Mines”
- Indonesian: “Sydney Mines”
- Irish: “A‘ Mhinn a Tuath”
- Irish: “Méinnean Baile Shuidni”
- Irish: “Méinnean Shuidni”
- Japanese: “シドニー・マインズ”
- Polish: “Sydney Mines”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Mhinn a Tuath”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Méinnean Baile Shidni”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mèinnean Baile Shidni”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Méinnean Baile Shuidni”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Méinnean Shidni”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Méinnean Shuidni”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mèinnean Shuidni”
- Swedish: “Sydney Mines”
- “A‘ Mhinn a Tuath”
- “Sydney Mines”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Centreville and Gannon Road.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Harbour View Hospital and Brown Street Ballfield.
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