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Fort Chipewyan

Fort Chipewyan is a hamlet on the western shores of Lake Athabasca 250 km north of , . It had a population of 798 in 2021.
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  • Type: Town with 852 residents
  • Description: hamlet in Alberta, Canada
  • Also known as: “Fort Chip”, “Fort Chipewyan, AB”, and “Fort Chipewyan, Alberta”
  • Neighbors:

Fort Chipewyan

Latitude
58.7166° or 58° 42′ 60″ north
Longitude
-111.15° or 111° 9′ 0″ west
Population
852
Elevation
218 metres (715 feet)
IATA airport code
YPY
United Nations Location Code
CA YPY
Open location code
95CCPR8X+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 51972828
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5955793
Wiki­data ID
Q388559
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Fort Chipewyan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فورت تشيبوايان”
  • Catalan: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • Chinese: “奇佩維安堡”
  • Chinese: “奇普怀恩堡”
  • Finnish: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • French: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • German: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • Italian: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • Japanese: “チピューヤン砦”
  • Japanese: “フォートチペワイアン”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • Norwegian: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • Portuguese: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • Spanish: “Fort Chipewyan (Alberta)”
  • Spanish: “Fort Chipewyan”
  • Swedish: “Fort Chipewyan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fort Chipewyan”. Photo: Mark S. Elliott, CC BY 2.5.