Acadia
Acadia is a historical term generally understood to comprise all of the land in Canada east of Quebec that was held by France in the 17th and early 18th centuries; that is to say, the modern-day Maritime Provinces as well as roughly the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. state of Maine, which is where you'll find Acadia National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: colony
- Description: colony of New France in northeastern North America
- Also known as: “Acadie”
Acadia
- Location: North America
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Latitude of center
47.617° or 47° 37′ 1″ northLongitude of center
-65.767° or 65° 46′ 1″ westWikidata ID
Q207353
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Acadia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أكاديا”
- Asturian: “Acadia”
- Basque: “Akadia”
- Bengali: “আকাদিয়া”
- Breton: “Akadia”
- Bulgarian: “Акадия”
- Catalan: “Acadia”
- Catalan: “Acàdia”
- Catalan: “Acadiana”
- Chinese: “法屬阿卡迪亞”
- Chinese: “阿卡迪亚”
- Chinese: “阿卡迪亞 (加拿大)”
- Chinese: “阿卡迪亞”
- Czech: “Acadia”
- Czech: “Akadie”
- Czech: “Akádie”
- Danish: “Acadia”
- Danish: “Acadie”
- Dutch: “Acadie”
- Dutch: “Acadië”
- Esperanto: “Akadia”
- Esperanto: “Akadiano”
- Esperanto: “Akadianoj”
- Esperanto: “Akadio”
- Estonian: “Akaadia”
- Finnish: “Acadia”
- Finnish: “Acadie”
- French: “Acadie”
- French: “Acadienne”
- French: “Communauté acadienne”
- French: “Peuple acadien”
- Galician: “Acadia”
- Georgian: “აკადია”
- German: “Akadien”
- Greek: “Ακαδία”
- Hebrew: “אקדיה”
- Hebrew: “אקדים”
- Indonesian: “Acadia”
- Interlingua: “Acadia”
- Irish: “Acaid”
- Italian: “Acadia”
- Japanese: “アカディ”
- Japanese: “アカディア”
- Korean: “아카디”
- Korean: “아카디아”
- Latin: “Acadia”
- Latvian: “Akadija”
- Lithuanian: “Akadija”
- Macedonian: “Акадија”
- Malagasy: “Akadia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Acadia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acadia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akadia”
- Norwegian: “Acadia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Acàdia”
- Ossetian: “Акади”
- Persian: “آکادی”
- Persian: “آکادیا”
- Persian: “اکادی”
- Persian: “اکادیا”
- Picard: “Acadie”
- Polish: “Akadia”
- Portuguese: “Acádia”
- Romanian: “Acadia”
- Russian: “Акадия”
- Sardinian: “Acàdia”
- Serbian: “Akadija”
- Serbian: “Акадија”
- Slovak: “Akádia”
- Slovenian: “Acadie”
- Slovenian: “Akadija”
- Spanish: “Acadia”
- Swedish: “Acadia”
- Swedish: “Acadie”
- Swedish: “Akadien”
- Tamil: “அகாடியா”
- Turkish: “Acadia”
- Turkish: “Akadya”
- Ukrainian: “Акадія”
- Vietnamese: “Acadia”
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