Louisbourg
Louisbourg is a village of 1,000 people on the south-east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
- Type: Town with 1,270 residents
- Description: unincorporated town in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Also known as: “Louisbourg, Nouvelle-Écosse”, “Louisbourg, Nova Scotia”, “Luisburgo”, and “ルイスバーグ要塞”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dixons Lake and Louisbourg Lighthouse.
Louisbourg Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Louisbourg
- Categories: General Service Area and locality
- Location: Cape Breton County, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
45.9235° or 45° 55′ 25″ north
Longitude
-59.9643° or 59° 57′ 52″ west
Population
1,270
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CA LOU
Open location code
88Q2W2FP+97
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Louisbourg” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Լուսբորգ”
- Basque: “Louisbourg (Eskozia Berria)”
- Basque: “Louisbourg”
- Chinese: “路易斯堡”
- French: “Louisbourg”
- German: “Louisbourg”
- Hebrew: “מצודת לואיבור”
- Irish: “Louisbourg”
- Italian: “Louisbourg”
- 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”
- Turkish: “Louisbourg”
- Ukrainian: “Луісбурґ”
- Ukrainian: “Луїсбург”
- Urdu: “لوئسبرگ”
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