Labrador
Labrador is the mostly remote and sparsely settled mainland portion of Newfoundland and Labrador. 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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Nunatsiavut and Labrador City.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Torngat Mountains National Park.
Torngat Mountains National Park
Photo: Gierszep, Public domain.
Labrador
- Type: region with 26,700 residents
- Description: region in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Also known as: “Costa de Labrador”, “Costa del Labrador”, “Etat du Labrador”, “État du Labrador”, “Labradóir”, “Nunatsuak”, “Région du Labrador”, “Лабрадор (Канада)”, “Лабрадор (регион)”, “ヌナツァク”, “ラブラドール”, and “ラブラドル”
- Location: Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
54° north
Longitude of center
-62° or 62° west
Population
26,700
Wikidata ID
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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: “拉布拉多”
- Czech: “Labrador”
- Danish: “Labrador”
- Dutch: “Labrador”
- Esperanto: “Labradoro”
- Finnish: “Labrador”
- French: “Labrador”
- German: “Labrador”
- Greek: “Λαμπραντόρ”
- Icelandic: “Labrador”
- Iloko: “Labrador”
- Indonesian: “Labrador”
- Irish: “Labradar”
- Italian: “Labrador”
- Japanese: “ラブラドール地方”
- Korean: “래브라도”
- Latin: “Labrador”
- Latin: “Terra Laboratoria”
- Lithuanian: “Labradoras”
- Malagasy: “Labrador”
- 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”
- Scots: “Labrador”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Labrador”
- Serbian: “Лабрадор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Labrador”
- Slovak: “Labrador”
- Slovenian: “Labrador”
- Spanish: “Labrador”
- Swedish: “Labrador”
- Tamil: “லாப்ரடோர்”
- Thai: “แลบราดอร์”
- Turkish: “Labrador”
- Ukrainian: “Лабрадор”
- Urdu: “لیبراڈور”
- 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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