Hay River
The town of Hay River is a town of 3,500 people in Northwest Territories in northern Canada. It is a drivable northern destination for ice fishing and sport fishing.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,610 residents
- Description: town in Northwest Territories, Canada
- Also known as: “Hay River, Northwest Territories” and “Hay River, NWT”
- Neighbors: High Level
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport and Diamond Jenness Secondary School.
Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport
Aerodrome
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Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport is located 1.5 nautical miles north of Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada. The airport is named for former bush pilot Merlyn Carter, who was killed by a black bear in 2005.
Diamond Jenness Secondary School
School
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Diamond Jenness Secondary School is a high school in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada. The school, along with Harry Camsell School and Princess Alexandra School, is overseen by the Hay River District Education Authority.
Hay River
- Categories: municipality and locality
- Location: Hay River, South Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
60.8156° or 60° 48′ 56″ northLongitude
-115.7866° or 115° 47′ 12″ westPopulation
3,610Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)IATA airport code
YHYUnited Nations Location Code
CA YHYOpen location code
95G6R687+69OpenStreetMap ID
node 107351278OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5972762Wikidata ID
Q1013062
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Hay River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر هاي”
- Asturian: “Hay River”
- Catalan: “Hay River”
- Cebuano: “Hay River”
- Chinese: “乾草河”
- Chinese: “海伊里佛”
- Chinese: “黑河”
- Dutch: “Hay River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر هاى”
- Esperanto: “Hay River”
- Finnish: “Hay River”
- French: “Hay River”
- French: “Xátł’odehchee”
- German: “Hay River”
- Italian: “Hay River”
- Japanese: “ヘイリバー”
- Lithuanian: “Hei Riveris”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hay River”
- Norwegian: “Hay River”
- Persian: “هی ریور”
- Polish: “Hay River”
- Portuguese: “Hay River”
- Russian: “Хей-Ривер”
- Spanish: “Hay River (Territorios del Noroeste)”
- Spanish: “Hay River”
- Swedish: “Hay River”
- Swedish: “Xátł’odehchee”
- Ukrainian: “Гей-Ривер”
- Ukrainian: “Хей-Рівер”
- “Hay River”
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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 “Hay River”. Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.