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Gander

Gander

Gander is a small town of 12,000 people with a huge international airport on the Trans-Canada Highway in . Established in 1935, the airport was once a major refuelling point for almost all trans-Atlantic flights.
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  • Type: Town with 11,700 residents
  • Description: town in province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • Also known as: “A1V 0A9”, “Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador”, and “Gander, NL”

Gander

Latitude
48.9592° or 48° 57′ 33″ north
Longitude
-54.6188° or 54° 37′ 8″ west
Population
11,700
Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)
IATA airport code
YQX
United Nations Location Code
CA GAN
Open location code
88W7X95J+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304259858
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5959335
Wiki­data ID
Q745257
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yiddish—“Gander” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Gander”
  • Arabic: “غاندر”
  • Chinese: “甘德”
  • Czech: “Gander”
  • Dagbani: “Gander”
  • Danish: “Gander”
  • Dutch: “Gander”
  • French: “Gander”
  • German: “Gander”
  • Hebrew: “גנדר”
  • Hungarian: “Gander”
  • Italian: “Gander”
  • Japanese: “ガンダー (ニューファンドランド・ラブラドール州)”
  • Japanese: “ガンダー”
  • Korean: “간더”
  • Korean: “갠더”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gander”
  • Persian: “گندر، نیوفاندلند و لابرادور”
  • Polish: “Gander”
  • Portuguese: “Gander”
  • Russian: “Гандер”
  • Slovak: “Gander”
  • Spanish: “Gander (Terranova y Labrador)”
  • Spanish: “Gander”
  • Swedish: “Gander”
  • Turkish: “Gander”
  • Ukrainian: “Гандер (Канада)”
  • Ukrainian: “Гандер”
  • Urdu: “گینڈر، نیو فاؤنڈ لینڈ اور لیبراڈور”
  • Yiddish: “גאנדער”

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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 “Gander”. Photo: Ryan Hodnett, CC BY-SA 4.0.