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Petawawa

Petawawa is the largest town in 's . Petawawa is on the south shore of the Ottawa River, and exists primarily to support the CFB Petawawa military base.
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  • Type: Town with 17,500 residents
  • Description: town in Ontario, Canada
  • Also known as: “Petawawa, ON” and “Petawawa, Ontario”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garrison Petawawa.

Neighborhood
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4 Canadian Division Support Base Petawawa, commonly referred to as , is located in Petawawa, Ontario. It is operated as an army base by the Canadian Army.

Petawawa

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
node 618991242
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6101606
Wiki­data ID
Q1455440
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“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”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Petawawa”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.