Kuujjuarapik

Kuujjuarapik and neighbouring Whapmagoostui are twin villages with a total of about 1800 people in in the far north of Quebec. Kuujjuarapik sits at the mouth of the Grande-Baleine River on the coast of Hudson Bay.
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  • Type: Town with 657 residents
  • Description: northern village in Quebec, Canada
  • Also known as: Great Whale River” and “Kuujjuaraapik

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kuujjuarapik Airport.

Aerodrome
is located adjacent to the Inuit community of Kuujjuarapik, , Canada. It also serves the nearby Cree community of Whapmagoostui.

Kuujjuarapik

Latitude
55.2821° or 55° 16′ 56″ north
Longitude
-77.7563° or 77° 45′ 23″ west
Population
657
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
YGW
Open location code
977476JV+RF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 107364169
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5994519
Wiki­data ID
Q1794745
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Kuujjuarapik” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Kuujjuarapik
  • Arabic: كوجوارابيك
  • Atikamekw: Kuujjuarapik
  • Bengali: কুজুরাপিক
  • Cebuano: Kuujjuarapik
  • Chinese: 库居阿尔阿皮克
  • Cree: ᑰᔪᐊᕋᐱᒃ
  • Danish: Kuujjuarapik
  • Dutch: Kuujjuarapik
  • Finnish: Kuujjuarapik
  • French: Kuujjuarapik (Québec)
  • French: Kuujjuarapik (village nordique)
  • French: Kuujjuarapik
  • German: Kuujjuarapik
  • Greek: Κουτζουαράπικ
  • Gujarati: કુજુઆરાપિક
  • Hindi: कूजुआरापिक
  • Indonesian: Kuujjuarapik
  • Inuktitut: ᑰᔾᔪᐊᕌᐱᒃ
  • Irish: Kuujjuarapik
  • Italian: Kuujjuarapik
  • Japanese: クージュアラピク
  • Kannada: ಕೂಜ್ಜುಆರಪಿಕ್
  • Korean: 쿠주아라픽
  • Latvian: Kūdžuarapika
  • Lithuanian: Kudžiuarapikas
  • Malay: Kuujjuarapik
  • Marathi: क्युजुआरापीक
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kuujjuarapik
  • Polish: Kuujjuarapik
  • Portuguese: Kuujjuarapik
  • Russian: Кууджуарапик
  • Sinhala: කූජුවාරපික්
  • Spanish: Kuujjuarapik
  • Swedish: Kuujjuarapik
  • Tamil: காஜாராபிக்
  • Telugu: కిజులపిక్
  • Thai: คูจจัวราพิก
  • Turkish: Kuujjuarapik
  • Ukrainian: Кууджуарапік
  • Ukrainian: Пост-де-ла-Бален
  • Urdu: کوججواراپیک
  • Vietnamese: Kuujjuarapik

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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 “Kuujjuarapik”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.