Baie-James

Eeyou Istchee James Bay is a local municipality in the Jamésie in administrative region of . Located to the east of , Eeyou Istchee James Bay covers 283,123.42 km2 of land, making it the largest incorporated municipality in Canada — only eight unorganized territories are larger.
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, population 7500, is the largest regional centre in Northern Quebec. It was founded as a mining village in 1950, and was incorporated as a municipality in 1954.

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is a small wilderness town in the Jamésie region of northwestern , . Located at the scenic confluence of the Bell and Allard rivers near Lake, its name translates in the indigenous Cree language to "where the waters meet".

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is a village of about 1400 people in on James Bay, which is the southern part of Hudson Bay. is part of the Cree Aboriginal nation.

Baie-James

Latitude of center
52.3387° or 52° 20′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
-75.2263° or 75° 13′ 35″ west
Population
2,640
Elevation
293 metres (961 feet)
Geo­Names ID
8674037
Wiki­data ID
Q1820447
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Baie-James” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيه جيمس”
  • Basque: “Baie-James”
  • Cebuano: “Baie-James”
  • Cree: “ᐄᔨᔨᐤ ᐊᔅᒌ ᒉᐃᒥᔅ ᐯᐃ”
  • Dutch: “Baie-James”
  • Dutch: “Eeyou Istchee Baie-James”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيه جيمس”
  • Finnish: “Baie-James”
  • French: “Eeyou Istchee Baie-James”
  • German: “Baie-James”
  • Japanese: “ベイ・ジェームズ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baie-James”
  • Persian: “به-جیمز، کبک”
  • Persian: “به-جیمز”
  • Portuguese: “Eeyou Istchee Baie-James”
  • Russian: “Бе-Джеймс”
  • Russian: “Бе-Жамс”
  • Scots: “Baie-James”
  • Slovenian: “Eeyou Istchee Baie-James”
  • Spanish: “Eeyou Istchee Baie-James”
  • Swedish: “Eeyou Istchee Baie-James”
  • Turkish: “Eeyou Istchee James Bay Regional Government”
  • Urdu: “ای یو استچی جیمز بے”

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