Fort Chipewyan
Fort Chipewyan is a hamlet on the western shores of Lake Athabasca 250 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. It had a population of 798 in 2021.
- Town with 852 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 218 metres (715 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code YPY
- Description: hamlet in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as“Fort Chip”“Fort Chipewyan, AB”“Fort Chipewyan, Alberta”
- Neighbors: Fort Smith
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Latitude
58.7166° or 58° 42′ 60″ north
Longitude
-111.15° or 111° 9′ 0″ west
UN/LOCODE
CA YPY
Open location code
95CCPR8X+MX
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OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
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place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“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”
- Russian: “Форт-Чипуян”
- Russian: “Чипевиан”
- Russian: “Шиппевай”
- Spanish: “Fort Chipewyan (Alberta)”
- Spanish: “Fort Chipewyan”
- Swedish: “Fort Chipewyan”
- Urdu: “فورٹ چپیویان”
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