Duncan
Duncan is a city in the South Vancouver Island region of British Columbia. It is known for having one of the largest totem pole collections: more than 40. The Cowichan Historical Society provides free totem tours in the summer months.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,940 residents
- Description: city in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Duncan, BC” and “Duncan, British Columbia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cowichan Community Centre and BC Forest Discovery Centre.
Cowichan Community Centre
Community center
Photo: Sandtrooper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cowichan Community Centre is a facility serving Cowichan Valley, British Columbia. It has a pool, theatre, arena, and gymnasium. It was built in 1978, on the former site of the Cowichan Curling Rink.
BC Forest Discovery Centre
Museum
Photo: SoftwareSimian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The BC Forest Discovery Centre, located in Duncan, chronicles the history of logging in British Columbia, Canada. It is a 100-acre site with 2.5 km of operational 3 ft narrow gauge railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Koksilah.
Koksilah
Village
Koksilah is a community located just southeast of the City of Duncan, British Columbia, Canada. Its name is derived, via that of the Koksilah River, from that of the Hwulqwselu people, one of the Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓-speaking peoples of the area today organized as the Cowichan Tribes and government.
Duncan
- Categories: city in British Columbia and locality
- Location: North Cowichan, Cowichan Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
48.7787° or 48° 46′ 43″ northLongitude
-123.708° or 123° 42′ 29″ westPopulation
4,940Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)IATA airport code
DUQOpen location code
84WRQ7HR+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2528873712OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Duncan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دنكان، كولومبيا البريطانية”
- Asturian: “Duncan”
- Azerbaijani: “Dankan”
- Bengali: “ডানকান”
- Catalan: “Duncan”
- Cebuano: “Duncan”
- Chinese: “邓肯”
- Czech: “Duncan”
- Danish: “Duncan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Duncan, Britanya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Duncan, Kolombiyay Britanya”
- Dutch: “Duncan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دنكان”
- Finnish: “Duncan”
- French: “Duncan”
- German: “Duncan”
- Greek: “Ντάνκαν”
- Gujarati: “ડંકન”
- Hindi: “डंकन”
- Indonesian: “Duncan”
- Italian: “Duncan”
- Japanese: “ダンカン”
- Kannada: “ಡಂಕನ್”
- Korean: “덩컨”
- Kurdish: “Duncan”
- Latvian: “Dankana”
- Lithuanian: “Dankanas”
- Malay: “Duncan”
- Marathi: “डंकन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Duncan”
- Persian: “دانکن، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Polish: “Duncan (Kanada)”
- Polish: “Duncan”
- Portuguese: “Duncan (colúmbia britânica)”
- Portuguese: “Duncan (Colúmbia Britânica)”
- Portuguese: “Duncan”
- Russian: “Данкан”
- Russian: “Дункан”
- Serbian: “Данкан (Британска Колумбија)”
- Serbian: “Данкан”
- Sinhala: “ඩන්කන්”
- Slovak: “Duncan”
- Slovenian: “Duncan”
- Spanish: “Duncan (Columbia Británica)”
- Spanish: “Duncan”
- Swedish: “Duncan, British Columbia”
- Swedish: “Duncan”
- Tamil: “டுன்கேன்”
- Telugu: “డంకన్”
- Thai: “ดันแคน”
- Turkish: “Duncan”
- Ukrainian: “Данкан”
- Ukrainian: “Дункан”
- Urdu: “ڈنکن، برٹش کولمبیا”
- Vietnamese: “Duncan”
- Volapük: “Duncan (British Columbia)”
- Welsh: “Duncan, British Columbia”
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