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Labrador

Labrador is the mostly remote and sparsely settled mainland portion of . Named for 15th-century Portuguese explorer João Fernandes Lavrador, it's “the big land”: vast wilderness areas with abundant wildlife, whales and icebergs, some of the highest peaks east of the Canadian Rockies, and — almost as an afterthought — some widely scattered pockets of human habitation.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Nunatsiavut and Labrador City.

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is a vast but sparsely-populated rural area in northern Labrador which comprises five widely-scattered native villages and three abandoned ghost towns spread across over 72,000 square kilometres of land.

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and Wabush are a pair of towns in Labrador West on the border. Dedicated primarily to iron ore mining, their burgeoning population of 9,350 people makes them the largest metropolitan area in otherwise sparsely-populated Labrador, rivalled only by .

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is a town in southern Labrador, an area of the Canadian province of . The town had a population of 377 as of the Canada 2021 Census.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Torngat Mountains National Park.

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is a town of 8,080 people in Labrador, founded in 1941 as a military base and seaport. During World War II, Goose and in Newfoundland were important airbases, later serving as refuelling stops for planes en route to .

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is a Canadian national park on the Labrador Peninsula in , occupies the northernmost tip of Labrador, .

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is a tiny coastal fishing village on the southeastern coast of Labrador with a population of about 440 people in 2021.

is a town in western Labrador, close to the border, in the province of , . It is known for its gold mining industry and its regional airport.

is a town located on the southeastern Labrador coast, 215 km from the /Southern Labrador border in . In 1944 it was named after John Hope Simpson as a company town.

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Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve is a Canadian national park reserve in central Labrador. This 10,700 km2 national park was established 2015 to protect boreal forest, caribou, Atlantic salmon and trout, wolves, black bear, marten and fox, mountains, tundra, fjords and expansive native landscapes.

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in Labrador is one of the last company towns in . Its population of nearly 700 work for the Churchill Dam, a 5.4-gigawatt hydroelectric generating station, the third-largest hydroelectric station in .

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is a small town of 560 settled by Europeans in 1743 as a fur trading post in Labrador, about 40 km northeast of .

Labrador

Latitude of center
56° north
Longitude of center
-61° or 61° west
Population
26,700
Wiki­data ID
Q380307
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Labrador” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لابرادور”
  • Arabic: “لبرادور”
  • Basque: “Labrador”
  • Breton: “Labrador”
  • Bulgarian: “Лабрадор”
  • Burmese: “လာဗရာဒေါနယ်”
  • Catalan: “Labrador”
  • Chinese: “Labrador”
  • Chinese: “拉布拉多”
  • Czech: “Labrador”
  • Danish: “Labrador”
  • Dutch: “Labrador”
  • Esperanto: “Labradoro”
  • Finnish: “Labrador”
  • French: “Etat du Labrador”
  • French: “État du Labrador”
  • French: “Labrador”
  • French: “Région du Labrador”
  • German: “Labrador”
  • Greek: “Λαμπραντόρ”
  • Icelandic: “Labrador”
  • Iloko: “Labrador”
  • Indonesian: “Labrador”
  • Irish: “Labradar”
  • Irish: “Labradóir”
  • Italian: “Costa del Labrador”
  • Italian: “Labrador”
  • Japanese: “ヌナツァク”
  • Japanese: “ラブラドール”
  • Japanese: “ラブラドール地方”
  • Japanese: “ラブラドル”
  • Korean: “래브라도”
  • Latin: “Labrador”
  • Latin: “Terra Laboratoria”
  • Lithuanian: “Labradoras”
  • Mazanderani: “لابرادور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Labrador”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Labrador”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Labrador”
  • Norwegian: “Labrador”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Labrador”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Labrador”
  • Persian: “لابرادور”
  • Polish: “Labrador”
  • Portuguese: “Labrador”
  • Russian: “Лабрадор (Канада)”
  • Russian: “Лабрадор (регион)”
  • Russian: “Лабрадор”
  • Scots: “Labrador”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Labrador”
  • Serbian: “Лабрадор”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Labrador”
  • Slovak: “Labrador”
  • Slovenian: “Labrador”
  • Spanish: “Costa de Labrador”
  • Spanish: “Labrador”
  • Swedish: “Labrador”
  • Tamil: “லாப்ரடோர்”
  • Thai: “แลบราดอร์”
  • Ukrainian: “Лабрадор”
  • Venetian: “Labrador”
  • Vietnamese: “Labrador”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Labrador (rehiyon)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Labrador”
  • Welsh: “Labrador”
  • Western Frisian: “Labrador”
  • Yoruba: “Labrador”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉布拉多”
  • “Labrador”

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