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Louisbourg

Louisbourg is a village of 1,000 people on the south-east coast of in .
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  • Type: Town with 1,270 residents
  • Description: unincorporated town in Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Louisbourg, Nova Scotia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Louisbourg Lighthouse and Dixons Lake.

Lighthouse
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an active Canadian lighthouse in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. The current tower is the fourth in a series of lighthouses that have been built on the site, the earliest was the first lighthouse in .

Lake
This is a list of lakes in .

Louisbourg

Latitude
45.9235° or 45° 55′ 25″ north
Longitude
-59.9643° or 59° 57′ 52″ west
Population
1,270
United Nations Location Code
CA LOU
Open location code
88Q2W2FP+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230202720
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6060789
Wiki­data ID
Q3263622
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Louisbourg” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Լուսբորգ”
  • Basque: “Louisbourg (Eskozia Berria)”
  • Basque: “Louisbourg”
  • Chinese: “路易斯堡”
  • French: “Louisbourg, Nouvelle-Écosse”
  • French: “Louisbourg”
  • German: “Louisbourg”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת לואיבור”
  • Irish: “Louisbourg”
  • Italian: “Louisbourg”
  • Japanese: “ルイスバーグ要塞”
  • Japanese: “ルイブール”
  • Latin: “Ludoviciburgum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Louisbourg”
  • Polish: “Louisbourg”
  • Russian: “Луисборг”
  • Scots: “Louisbourg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Louisbourg, Alba Nuadh”
  • Slovenian: “Louisbourg”
  • Spanish: “Louisbourg”
  • Spanish: “Luisburgo”
  • Turkish: “Louisbourg”
  • Ukrainian: “Луісбурґ”
  • Ukrainian: “Луїсбург”

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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 “Louisbourg”. Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.