Petawawa
Petawawa is the largest town in eastern Ontario's Ottawa Valley. Petawawa is on the south shore of the Ottawa River, and exists primarily to support the CFB Petawawa military base.
- Type: Town with 17,500 residents
- Description: town in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Petawawa, ON” and “Petawawa, Ontario”
Petawawa
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario and locality
- Location: Petawawa, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.8984° or 45° 53′ 54″ north
Longitude
-77.2827° or 77° 16′ 58″ west
Population
17,500
Elevation
143 metres (469 feet)
IATA airport code
YWA
United Nations Location Code
CA YWA
Open location code
87Q4VPX8+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Petawawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيتاواوا”
- Asturian: “Petawawa”
- Atikamekw: “Petawawa”
- Catalan: “Petawawa”
- Cebuano: “Petawawa”
- Dutch: “Petawawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيتاواوا”
- French: “Petawawa”
- German: “Petawawa”
- Irish: “Petawawa”
- Italian: “Petawawa”
- Japanese: “ペタワワ”
- Persian: “پتاواوا”
- Polish: “Petawawa”
- Russian: “Петавава”
- Serbian: “Петавова”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Petawawa”
- Spanish: “Petawawa (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Petawawa”
- Swedish: “Petawawa”
- Turkish: “Petawawa”
- Ukrainian: “Петавава”
- Urdu: “پیٹاواوا”
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