Fortune

Fortune is a town of about 1,400 inhabitants in , on the northern shore of the Burin Peninsula. The fishery as the biggest industry. For travellers it's most notable for the passenger ferries to .
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  • Type: Town with 1,290 residents
  • Description: town in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Also known as: “Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador”

Fortune

Latitude
47.0727° or 47° 4′ 22″ north
Longitude
-55.8276° or 55° 49′ 40″ west
Population
1,290
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA FOR
Open location code
88V635FC+3W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4401911790
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5955964
Wiki­data ID
Q3078545
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Urdu—“Fortune” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Fortune”
  • Bulgarian: “Фортуне”
  • Cebuano: “Fortune”
  • Chinese: “一夜暴富镇”
  • Corsican: “Fortune”
  • Danish: “Fortune”
  • Dutch: “Fortune”
  • Esperanto: “Fortuno”
  • French: “Fortune”
  • German: “Fortune”
  • Indonesian: “Fortune”
  • Italian: “Fortune”
  • Japanese: “フォーチュン”
  • Low German: “Fortune”
  • Portuguese: “Fortune”
  • Romanian: “Fortune”
  • Sicilian: “Fortune”
  • Slovenian: “Fortune”
  • Spanish: “Fortune”
  • Swedish: “Fortune”
  • Tahitian: “Fortune”
  • Turkish: “Fortune”
  • Ukrainian: “Форчун (Ньюфаундленд і Лабрадор)”
  • Ukrainian: “Форчун”
  • Urdu: “فارچون، نیوفاؤنڈ لینڈ اینڈ لیبراڈور”

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