Matagami
Matagami is a small wilderness town in the Jamésie region of northwestern Quebec, Canada. Located at the scenic confluence of the Bell and Allard rivers near Matagami Lake, its name translates in the indigenous Cree language to "where the waters meet".- Type: Town with 1,970 residents
- Description: town in Quebec, Canada
- Neighbors: Baie-James
Matagami
- Categories: city or town of Quebec, territory outside RCM in Quebec, and locality
- Location: Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.7576° or 49° 45′ 27″ north
Longitude
-77.63° or 77° 37′ 48″ west
Population
1,970
Elevation
259 metres (850 feet)
IATA airport code
YNM
UN/LOCODE
CA YNM
Open location code
87X4Q959+2X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Matagami” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماتاغامي”
- Atikamekw: “Matakami”
- Basque: “Matagami”
- Catalan: “Matagami”
- Cebuano: “Matagami”
- Dimli (individual language): “Matagami, Quebec”
- Dimli (individual language): “Matagami”
- Dutch: “Matagami”
- Esperanto: “Matagami”
- Estonian: “Matagami”
- French: “Matagami”
- German: “Matagami”
- Italian: “Matagami”
- Japanese: “マタガミ”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Matagami”
- Persian: “ماتاگامی”
- Polish: “Matagami”
- Portuguese: “Matagami”
- Russian: “Матагами”
- Serbian: “Matagami”
- Serbian: “Матагами”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Matagami”
- Spanish: “Matagami”
- Swedish: “Matagami”
- Turkish: “Matagami”
- Urdu: “ماٹاگامی”
- Volapük: “Matagami”
- Western Panjabi: “ماٹاگامی”
- “Matagami”
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