Bécancour
Bécancour is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec. It is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River at the confluence of the Bécancour River, opposite Trois-Rivières.Photo: Fralambert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 13,600 residents
- Description: city in Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Becancour, QC”, “Becancour, Quebec”, and “Bécancour, Quebec”
- Neighbors: Batiscan, Champlain, and Trois-Rivières
Photo: Fralambert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wôlinak Indian Reserve 11 and Précieux-Sang.
Wôlinak Indian Reserve 11
Village
Photo: Fralambert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wôlinak is an Abenaki First Nations reserve in the Centre-du-Québec region, Quebec, Canada. An enclave within the city of Bécancour, it was one of the Seven Nations of Canada.
Précieux-Sang
Village
Précieux-Sang is a community of the city of Bécancour, Quebec. Précieux-Sang is situated 6 km southeast of Bécancour.
Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap
Suburb
Photo: Fralambert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap is a former city in Quebec, Canada on the St. Lawrence River. It was amalgamated into the City of Trois-Rivières in 2002. Its population as of the 2001 census was 6,192. Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap is situated 6 km northwest of Bécancour.
Bécancour
- Categories: city or town of Quebec and locality
- Location: Centre-du-Québec, Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.3416° or 46° 20′ 30″ northLongitude
-72.4335° or 72° 26′ 1″ westPopulation
13,600Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA BECOpen location code
87R98HR8+JHOpenStreetMap ID
node 305806540OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bécancour” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيكانكور، كيبك”
- Arabic: “بيكانكور”
- Armenian: “Բեկանկուր”
- Atikamekw: “Bécancour”
- Basque: “Bécancour”
- Belarusian: “Беканкур”
- Catalan: “Bécancour”
- Cebuano: “Bécancour”
- Chinese: “貝坎庫爾”
- Chinese: “贝坎库尔”
- Cree: “ᐯᑲᓄᑯᐅ”
- Czech: “Bécancour”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bécancour, Quebec”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bécancour”
- Dutch: “Becancour”
- Dutch: “Bécancour”
- Estonian: “Bécancour”
- French: “Bécancour”
- German: “Bécancour”
- Hakka Chinese: “Bécancour, Quebec”
- Hakka Chinese: “Bécancour”
- Hungarian: “Bécancour”
- Italian: “Bécancour”
- Japanese: “ベカンクール”
- Japanese: “ベキャンクール”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bécancour”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bécancour”
- Ossetian: “Беканкур”
- Persian: “بکانکور، کبک”
- Polish: “Bécancour”
- Portuguese: “Bécancour”
- Russian: “Беканкур”
- Serbian: “Bécancour”
- Serbian: “Бéцанцоур”
- Serbian: “Беканкур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bécancour”
- Slovak: “Bécancour”
- Slovenian: “Bécancour”
- South Azerbaijani: “بکانکور، کوبک”
- Spanish: “Bécancour (Quebec)”
- Spanish: “Bécancour”
- Swedish: “Bécancour”
- Turkish: “Bécancour, Quebec”
- Turkish: “Becancour”
- Turkish: “Bécancour”
- Ukrainian: “Беканкур”
- Urdu: “بیکانکور، کیوبک”
- Volapük: “Bécancour”
- Western Panjabi: “بیکنکور”
- “Bécancour”
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