Northeastern Ontario
Northeastern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario, which lies north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior. Greater Sudbury is its largest settlement.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Timmins and Cochrane.
Timmins
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Timmins is a city in Northern Ontario with a population of nearly 41,000. The city stretches over approximately 2,962 km² of land, making Timmins one of the largest cities in Canada, larger than Luxembourg.
Cochrane
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Cochrane is a town of 5,400 people in Northern Ontario. One of its big draws is the Polar Bear Habitat, which is home to three polar bears that are unable to survive in the wild.
Moosonee
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Moosonee is a town of 1,500 people in Northern Ontario. Called the "Gateway to the Arctic", it is Ontario's only saltwater port where goods are transferred from trains to aircraft and barges to more northerly communities.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Temiskaming Shores and Hearst.
Temiskaming Shores
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Temiskaming Shores is a city in Northeastern Ontario. The city of Temiskaming Shores encompasses the towns of Dymond, Haileybury, and New Liskeard. Although a city in name, the population of "The Tri-Town Area" is quite small — just under 10,000 in 2016.
Hearst
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The self-proclaimed "Moose Capital of Canada", Hearst is a town of 5,500 people in Northern Ontario. It is named after William Howard Hearst, the seventh Premier of Ontario.
Kirkland Lake
Kirkland Lake is a town and municipality in Timiskaming District in with a population of about 8,000 people in 2016.
Kapuskasing
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Kapuskasing, also known as "Kap", is a town of 8300 people in Northern Ontario. It is mostly a company town; the main industry is an enormous paper mill.
Cobalt
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Cobalt is a town of 1,100 people in Northern Ontario. One of the "Tri-Towns" of the area, Cobalt chose to remain a separate town when Haileybury and New Liskeard to the north merged to become Temiskaming Shores.
Hornepayne
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Hornepayne is a township of about a thousand people in the Algoma District of Northern Ontario, Canada. It's the closest settlement to the geographic center of Ontario, a point that lands in a remote bog to the north of the town.
Geraldton
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Geraldton is a community of a couple of thousand people on Highway 11 in northern Ontario.
Longlac
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Longlac is a small town of a couple of thousand people in Northern Ontario. It is one of two places in Ontario located on both the Trans-Canada Highway and The Canadian rail line.
Northeastern Ontario
- Type: administrative territorial entity
- Description: region of Ontario, Canada
- Location: Northern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude of center
48° northLongitude of center
-81.75° or 81° 45′ westWikidata ID
Q3343541
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Northeastern Ontario” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Nord-est d’Ontàrio”
- Chinese: “东北安大略区”
- Chinese: “北安大略区”
- Chinese: “安大略省東北部”
- French: “neo”
- French: “Nord-est de l’Ontario”
- French: “Nord-Est de l’Ontario”
- Japanese: “北東オンタリオ地方”
- Persian: “انتاریو شمال خاوری”
- Portuguese: “Nordeste de Ontário”
- Russian: “Северо-Восточная Онтарио”
- Russian: “Северо-Восточное Онтарио”
- Serbian: “Североисточни Онтарио”
- Slovenian: “Severovzhodni Ontario”
- Spanish: “Noreste de Ontario”
- Ukrainian: “Північно-Східне Онтаріо”
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