Baffin Island
Baffin Island is an island in Nunavut, Canada. It's the world's fifth largest island. It is larger in area than Spain, but has a population of only 13,000 people. It lies to the west of Greenland, across the Baffin Bay.
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Pangnirtung
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Auyuittuq National Park
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Auyuittuq National Park is a national park in Nunavut.
Baffin Island
- Island with 13,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 303 metres (994 feet)
- …is also known as “Baffin Land”
- Description: largest Arctic island in Nunavut, Canada
- Location
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Baffin Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Baffin-eiland”
- Arabic: “بافن”
- Arabic: “بافين”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بافن”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بافين”
- Armenian: “Բաֆինի երկիր”
- Asturian: “Islla de Baffin”
- Azerbaijani: “Baffin adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Baffin Torpağı”
- Balinese: “Nusa Baffin”
- Bashkir: “Баффин Ере”
- Basque: “Baffin irla”
- Basque: “Baffin Lurra”
- Basque: “Baffin uhartea”
- Basque: “Baffin”
- Belarusian: “Бафінава Зямля”
- Belarusian: “Зямля Бафіна”
- Bengali: “ব্যাফিন দ্বীপ”
- Bosnian: “Baffinov otok”
- Bosnian: “Baffinovo ostrvo”
- Breton: “Enez Baffin”
- Bulgarian: “Бафинова земя”
- Catalan: “Baffin Island”
- Catalan: “Baffin”
- Catalan: “Illa Baffin”
- Catalan: “illa de Baffin”
- Catalan: “Illa de Baffin”
- Catalan: “Terra de Baffin”
- Cebuano: “Pulo sa Baffin”
- Chinese: “巴芬岛”
- Chinese: “巴芬島”
- Croatian: “Baffin Island”
- Croatian: “Baffinov otok”
- Croatian: “Baffinova zemlja”
- Croatian: “Helluland”
- Czech: “Baffin Island”
- Czech: “Baffinův ostrov”
- Danish: “Baffin Island”
- Danish: “Baffin Land”
- Dutch: “Baffin Eiland”
- Dutch: “Baffineiland”
- Dutch: “Baffinland”
- Dutch: “Île de Baffin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بافين”
- Esperanto: “Baffin-insulo”
- Esperanto: “Bafina Insulo”
- Estonian: “Akilinek”
- Estonian: “Baffini maa”
- Estonian: “Baffini saar”
- Estonian: “Qikiqtaaluk”
- Faroese: “Baffinsland”
- Fiji Hindi: “Baffin Island”
- Finnish: “Baffin Island”
- Finnish: “Baffininsaari”
- French: “Ile de Baffin”
- French: “île de Baffin”
- French: “Île de Baffin”
- French: “Terre de Baffin”
- Galician: “Illa de Baffin”
- Georgian: “ბაფინის მიწა”
- German: “Baffin Island”
- German: “Baffin-Insel”
- German: “Baffininsel”
- German: “Baffinland”
- Greek: “Γη του Μπάφιν”
- Greek: “Νησί Μπάφιν”
- Greek: “Νήσος Μπάφιν”
- Hebrew: “אי באפין”
- Hebrew: “באפין”
- Hindi: “बैफ़िन द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Baffin-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Baffineyja”
- Icelandic: “Baffinsland”
- Indonesian: “Baffin Island”
- Indonesian: “Baffin”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Baffin”
- Irish: “Oileán Baffin”
- Italian: “Baffin Island”
- Italian: “Baffin”
- Italian: “Isola Baffin”
- Italian: “Isola di Baffin”
- Italian: “Terra di Baffin”
- Japanese: “バッフィン島”
- Japanese: “バフィン島”
- Kalaallisut: “Baffin Island”
- Kazakh: “Баффин жері”
- Kazakh: “Баффин Жері”
- Kirghiz: “Баффин жери”
- Korean: “배핀섬”
- Latin: “Insula Baffini”
- Latvian: “Bafina sala”
- Latvian: “Bafina zeme”
- Latvian: “Kikiktāluka”
- Literary Chinese: “巴芬島”
- Lithuanian: “Baffino Žemė”
- Lithuanian: “Bafino sala”
- Lithuanian: “Bafino Žemė”
- Macedonian: “Бафинов Остров”
- Macedonian: “Бафинова Земја”
- Malay: “Pulau Baffin”
- Malayalam: “ബാഫിൻ ദ്വീപ്”
- Marathi: “बॅफिन बेट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Baffin Tó”
- Mingrelian: “ბაფინიშ დიხა”
- Northern Frisian: “Baffin Eilun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baffin Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baffinøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baffinøyen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baffin Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baffinland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baffinøya”
- Norwegian: “Baffinøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de Baffin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra de Baffin”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hellualand”
- Ossetian: “Баффины зæхх”
- Ossetian: “Баффины Зæхх”
- Panjabi: “ਬੈਫਿਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
- Persian: “جزیره بافین”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ بافین”
- Polish: “Ziemia Baffina”
- Portuguese: “Baffin”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Baffin”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Baffin”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Baffin”
- Romanian: “Insula Baffin”
- Romanian: “Insula Ţara Baffin”
- Romanian: “Insula Țara Baffin”
- Russian: “Баффинова Земля”
- Samogitian: “Bafina žemė”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baffin Island”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Bhaffin”
- Serbian: “Baffinisland”
- Serbian: “Бафинова земља”
- Serbian: “Бафиново острво”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Baffinov otok”
- Sicilian: “Ìsula Baffin”
- Slovak: “Baffinov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Baffinov otok”
- Spanish: “Baffin Island”
- Spanish: “Baffin”
- Spanish: “Isla Baffin”
- Spanish: “isla de Baffin”
- Spanish: “Isla de Baffin”
- Spanish: “Tierra de Baffin”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Baffin”
- Swedish: “Baffinön”
- Swedish: “Baffins land”
- Swedish: “Île de Baffin”
- Swedish: “Qikiqtaaluk”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Baffin”
- Tajik: “Замини Баффин”
- Tamil: “பாஃபின் தீவு”
- Tatar: “Баффин Җире”
- Thai: “เกาะแบฟฟิน”
- Turkish: “Baffin Adası”
- Turkish: “Baffin Island”
- Ukrainian: “Баффінова Земля”
- Upper Sorbian: “Baffinska kupa”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ بفین”
- Uzbek: “Baffin yeri”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Baffin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baffin Island”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baffin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Baffin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Baffin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Baffin”
- Welsh: “Ynys Baffin”
- Western Frisian: “Baffinlân”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرا بیفن”
- Wu Chinese: “巴芬岛”
- Yue Chinese: “巴芬島”
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