Pictou
Pictou is a small town of 3,200 people in Pictou County, Nova Scotia on the north-western shore of a natural harbour. It is most well-known for its claim to be the birthplace of new Scotland after the landing of the first settlers to come to Nova Scotia directly from Scotland in 1773.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: André Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: André Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,190 residents
- Description: town in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Also known as: “Pictou, Nova Scotia”
Pictou
- Categories: town in Nova Scotia and locality
- Location: Pictou County, Northumberland Shore, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
45.6777° or 45° 40′ 40″ northLongitude
-62.7082° or 62° 42′ 30″ westPopulation
3,190Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA PTOOpen location code
87QVM7HR+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 2474645423OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Pictou” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Pictou”
- Atikamekw: “Pictou”
- Catalan: “Pictou”
- Cebuano: “Pictou”
- Chinese: “皮克图”
- Czech: “Pictou”
- Dutch: “Pictou”
- Estonian: “Pictou”
- French: “Pictou”
- German: “Pictou”
- Irish: “Baile Phictou”
- Irish: “Baile Phiogto”
- Irish: “Pictou”
- Irish: “Piogto”
- Italian: “Pictou”
- Japanese: “ピクトー”
- Japanese: “ピクトウ”
- Japanese: “ピクトゥー”
- Persian: “پیکتو”
- Polish: “Pictou (miasto)”
- Polish: “Pictou”
- Portuguese: “Pictou”
- Russian: “Пикту”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Phictou”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Phiogto”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pictou”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Piogto”
- Slovenian: “Pictou”
- Spanish: “Pictou”
- Swedish: “Pictou”
- Ukrainian: “Пікту”
- “Baile Phiogto”
- “Pictou”
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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 “Pictou”. Photo: André Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 2.0.