Niagara-on-the-Lake
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town of 19,000 people in the Niagara Region of Ontario. It sits on the shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Niagara River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 17,500 residents
- Description: town in Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON” and “Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario”
- Neighbors: St. Catharines
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort George and Fort Niagara Beach.
Fort George
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort George was a military fortification in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. The fort was used by the British Army, the Canadian militia, and the Jeffersonian American Republic Army for a brief period.
Fort Niagara Beach
Photo: Charny, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Niagara, also known as Old Fort Niagara, is a fortification originally built by New France to protect its interests in North America, specifically control of access between the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, the easternmost of the Great Lakes.
Fort Niagara Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Florence88, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Niagara Light is an inactive lighthouse on the Niagara River on the south shore of Lake Ontario in New York state. It is located on the grounds of Fort Niagara.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Youngstown.
Youngstown
Photo: Florence88, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Youngstown is the northwesternmost community in the state of New York. Its strategic location at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border with Canada, made it a prime site for fortifications, the last of which has stood just north of the village since 1726.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario and locality
- Location: Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.2556° or 43° 15′ 20″ northLongitude
-79.0723° or 79° 4′ 20″ westPopulation
17,500Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA NOLOpen location code
87M27W4H+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 1829283475OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Niagara-on-the-Lake” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Arabic: “نياجارا-أون-ذا-ليك”
- Arabic: “نيغارا-ون-ذا-ليك”
- Asturian: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Atikamekw: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Catalan: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Cebuano: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Chinese: “滨湖尼亚加拉”
- Dutch: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيجارا ون ذا ليك”
- Esperanto: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Faroese: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- French: “Newark, Ontario”
- French: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- French: “Niagara, Ontario”
- Galician: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- German: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Hebrew: “ניאגרה און דה לייק”
- Hebrew: “ניאגרה-און-דה-לייק”
- Italian: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Japanese: “ナイアガラオンザレイク”
- Korean: “나이아가라온더레이크”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Niagara-on-þǣm-Mere”
- Persian: “نایاگارا-آن-د-لیک”
- Polish: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Portuguese: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Romanian: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Russian: “Ниагара-он-те-Лейк”
- Serbian: “Најагара на Језеру”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Silesian: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Slovenian: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Spanish: “Niagara-on-the-Lake (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Swedish: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Turkish: “Niagara-on-the-Lake”
- Ukrainian: “Ніагара-он-да-Лейк”
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