Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia, is one of Canada's . With just under one million inhabitants, it is the largest of the four and generally considered to be the touristic hub of the Maritimes.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Halifax and Lunenburg.

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is the capital city of Nova Scotia and the largest city in . The city's origins and rich maritime history derive from a strategic location and one of the world's great natural harbours.

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is a small fishing town in Nova Scotia that was established in 1753. Its Old Town is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. UNESCO considers the site the best example of planned British colonial settlement in North America, as it retains its original layout and appearance of the 1800s, including local wooden vernacular architecture.

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is a former city and urban community on the east coast of in Nova Scotia, Canada within the .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Cape Breton Island and Halifax Region.

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is the northernmost island in Nova Scotia. It is a beautifully rugged island, populated by the descendants of Scottish immigrants, by Acadians, and by the Indigenous Mi'kmaq people.

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The , focused on Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, is the economic hub of the province and often the first point of entry. The city offers a diversity of things to do and places to go.

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is an important fishing and tourism region of Nova Scotia. The tourism industry is concentrated in the towns of Lunenburg, Chester, Mahone Bay, Liverpool, the five beaches surrounding Riverport, and the fishing community of Peggy's Cove.

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The is a region in the northwest of Nova Scotia. It is known for having some of the highest tides in the world and its sandstone cliffs and outcrops attract rockhounds and fossil hunters.

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The is in the western part of the Nova Scotia peninsula. It is formed by a trough between two parallel mountain ranges along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.

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The is a region of Nova Scotia, . The has more warm-water ocean beaches than anywhere else in Atlantic Canada. Fresh local lobster is a food of choice for the region and is available at restaurants throughout.

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The is a region on the northeastern coast of Nova Scotia. It is less populated and less touristy than the nearby South Shore, with fewer attractions.

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are the two western-most counties of Nova Scotia. Traditional Anglo-Scottish and Acadian French culture intermingles amongst the villages, harbours, beaches and lighthouses, a remnant of the colonial past.

Nova Scotia

Latitude of center
45.196° or 45° 11′ 46″ north
Longitude of center
-63.1654° or 63° 9′ 55″ west
Population
922,000
Elevation
117 metres (384 feet)
Abbreviation
“NS”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305700704
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
6091530
Wiki­data ID
Q1952
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nova Scotia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nieu-Skotland”
  • Afrikaans: “Nova Scotia”
  • Albanian: “Skocia e Re”
  • Amharic: “ኖቫ ስኮሻ”
  • Amharic: “ኖቫ ስኮቲያ”
  • Arabic: “إسكتلندا الجديدة”
  • Arabic: “نوفا سكوتيا”
  • Arabic: “نوفا سكوشا”
  • Armenian: “Նոր Շոտլանդիա”
  • Asturian: “Nueva Escocia”
  • Awadhi: “नोवा स्कॉटिया”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yeni Şotlandiya”
  • Balinese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Basque: “Eskozia Berria”
  • Belarusian: “Новая Шатландыя”
  • Belarusian: “Новая Шатляндыя”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Новая Шатландыя”
  • Bengali: “নোভা স্কোটিয়া”
  • Bengali: “নোভা স্কোশিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Niu-Skotlan”
  • Bhojpuri: “नोवा स्कोशिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “नोवा स्कोश्या”
  • Bosnian: “Nova Scotia”
  • Bosnian: “Nova Škotska”
  • Breton: “Skos Nevez”
  • Bulgarian: “Нова Скотия”
  • Burmese: “နိုဗာစကိုးရှားပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Nova Escòcia”
  • Cebuano: “Nova Scotia”
  • Central Kurdish: “نۆڤا سکۆشیا”
  • Cherokee: “ᏃᏩ ᏍᎪᏏᎠ”
  • Chinese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Chinese: “新斯科細亞省”
  • Chinese: “新斯科舍”
  • Chinese: “新斯科舍省”
  • Chinese: “新苏格兰”
  • Chinese: “新蘇格蘭省”
  • Chinese: “诺瓦斯科舍省”
  • Chinese: “諾華斯高沙”
  • Chinese: “諾華斯高沙省”
  • Cornish: “Alban Nowydh”
  • Corsican: “Nova Scozia”
  • Croatian: “Nova Škotska”
  • Czech: “Nové Skotsko”
  • Dagbani: “Nova Scotia”
  • Danish: “Nova Scotia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İskoçya Newiye”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İskoçyay Newe”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İskoçyay Newey”
  • Dutch: “Nova Scotia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نوڤا سكوشا”
  • Esperanto: “Nov-Skotio”
  • Esperanto: “Novaskotio”
  • Esperanto: “NS”
  • Estonian: “Nova Scotia”
  • Faroese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Finnish: “Nova Scotia”
  • French: “Nouvelle-Écosse”
  • French: “NS”
  • Galician: “Nova Escocia”
  • Galician: “Nova Scotia”
  • Georgian: “ახალი შოტლანდია”
  • German: “Neu-Schottland”
  • German: “Neuschottland”
  • German: “Nova Scotia”
  • German: “NS”
  • Greek: “Νέα Σκωτία”
  • Gujarati: “નોવા સ્કોટીઆ”
  • Haitian: “Nouvèl Ekòs”
  • Hausa: “Nova Scotia”
  • Hebrew: “נובה סקוטיה”
  • Hindi: “नोवा स्कॉटिया”
  • Hindi: “नोवा स्कोश्या”
  • Hungarian: “Nova Scotia”
  • Hungarian: “Új-Skócia”
  • Icelandic: “Nýja-Skotland”
  • Ido: “Nova Skotia”
  • Igbo: “Nova Scotia”
  • Indonesian: “Nova Scotia”
  • Interlingue: “Nova Scotia”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓅᕙᓯᑰᓴ”
  • Irish: “Alba Nuadh”
  • Irish: “Albain Nua”
  • Italian: “Nuova Scozia”
  • Japanese: “CA-NS”
  • Japanese: “NS”
  • Japanese: “ニュー・スコットランド”
  • Japanese: “ノバスコシア州”
  • Javanese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nova Scotia”
  • Kannada: “ನೋವಾ ಸ್ಕಾಟಿಯಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Джангы Шотландия”
  • Kazakh: “Жаңа Шотландия”
  • Kirghiz: “Жаңы Шотландия”
  • Korean: “노바스코샤 주”
  • Korean: “노바스코샤주”
  • Kurdish: “Nova Scotia”
  • Ladino: “Nova Scotia”
  • Latin: “Nova Scotia”
  • Latvian: “Jaunskotija”
  • Ligurian: “Neuva Scossia”
  • Limburgan: “Nova Scotia”
  • Literary Chinese: “新斯高沙”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujoji Škotija”
  • Low German: “Nova Scotia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nova Scotia”
  • Macedonian: “Нова Шкотска”
  • Malay: “Nova Scotia”
  • Malayalam: “നോവ സ്കോട്ടിയ”
  • Maltese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Maltese: “Skozja l-Ġdida”
  • Manx: “Albey Noa”
  • Manx: “Albin Noa”
  • Manx: “Nalbin Noa”
  • Manx: “Nova Scotia”
  • Manx: “ny h-Albey Noa”
  • Marathi: “नोव्हा स्कॉशिया”
  • Mazanderani: “نوا اسکوشیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Mingrelian: “ახალი შოტლანდია”
  • Mongolian: “Нова Скоша”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nova Scotia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nova Scotia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nova Scotia”
  • Norwegian: “Nova Scotia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Escòcia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܘܒܐ ܣܩܘܛܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nīwe Scotland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nīƿe Scotland”
  • Oromo: “Nova Scotia”
  • Ossetian: “Ног Шотланди”
  • Pampanga: “Nova Scotia”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੋਵਾ ਸਕੋਸ਼ਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੋਵਾ ਸਕੋਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Nova Scotia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Nei-Schottland”
  • Persian: “نوا اسکوشیا”
  • Piemontese: “Neuva Scòssia”
  • Polish: “Nowa Szkocja”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Escócia”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Portuguese: “NS”
  • Portuguese: “Província da Nova Escócia”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Nova Scotia”
  • Pushto: “Nova Scotia”
  • Quechua: “Nova Scotia pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Noua Scoție”
  • Russia Buriat: “Шэнэ Шотланд”
  • Russian: “Новая Шотландия”
  • Rusyn: “Нова Шкоция”
  • Samogitian: “Naujuojė Škuotėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Nova Scotia”
  • Scots: “New Scotland”
  • Scots: “Nova Scotia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alba Nuadh”
  • Serbian: “Нова Шкотска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nova Škotska”
  • Sindhi: “نووا اسڪوٽيا”
  • Sinhala: “නොවා ස්කොටියා”
  • Sinhala: “නෝවා ස්කෝෂියා”
  • Slovak: “Nové Škótsko”
  • Slovenian: “Nouvelle-Écosse”
  • Slovenian: “Nova Scotia”
  • Slovenian: “Nova Škotska”
  • Slovenian: “NS”
  • Somali: “Nova Scotia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوا اسکوشیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نووا اسکوشیا”
  • Spanish: “NS”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Escocia (Canadá)”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Escocia”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Nueva Escocia”
  • Swahili: “Nova Scotia”
  • Swedish: “Nova Scotia”
  • Tagalog: “Nova Scotia”
  • Tajik: “Shotlandiyai Nau”
  • Tajik: “Шотландияи Нав”
  • Tamil: “நோவா ஸ்காட்டியா”
  • Tamil: “நோவா ஸ்கோசியா”
  • Tatar: “Nova Scotia”
  • Tatar: “Яңа Шотландия”
  • Telugu: “నోవా స్కోటియా”
  • Thai: “ซาตูปาอิเตอา”
  • Thai: “รัฐโนวาสโกเชีย”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Nova Sikoutia”
  • Turkish: “Yeni İskoçya”
  • Uighur: “Nowa Skotiye Ölkisi”
  • Ukrainian: “Нова Шотландія”
  • Urdu: “نووا سکوشیا”
  • Uzbek: “Yangi Shotlandiya”
  • Vietnamese: “Nova Scotia”
  • Vietnamese: “NS”
  • Vietnamese: “tỉnh Nova Scotia”
  • Volapük: “Nova Scotia”
  • Volapük: “Nula-Skotän”
  • Võro: “Nova Scotia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nova Scotia”
  • Welsh: “Alban Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Nova Scotia”
  • Western Armenian: “Նոր Սկովտիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Nij Skotlân”
  • Western Frisian: “Nij-Skotlân”
  • Western Panjabi: “نوا سکوٹیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “نووا سکوشیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “新斯科舍省”
  • Yiddish: “נאווע סקאשע”
  • Yue Chinese: “諾華斯高沙”
  • “Naujuojė Škuotėjė”
  • “Nova Scotia”
  • “Q1952”
  • “Scòsia Nóva”
  • “Yancuīc Escocia”
  • “नोवा स्कोशिया”

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