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Placentia

Placentia is a town of 3,500 people on the west side of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula. It was the French capital of in the early 17th century.
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  • Type: Town with 3,290 residents
  • Description: town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • Also known as: “Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador”

Placentia

Latitude
47.2435° or 47° 14′ 37″ north
Longitude
-53.9635° or 53° 57′ 49″ west
Population
3,290
United Nations Location Code
CA PCI
Open location code
88V862VP+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4209548504
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6105892
Wiki­data ID
Q2607939
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Placentia” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Placentia”
  • Basque: “Placentia (Ternua eta Labrador)”
  • Basque: “Placentia”
  • Catalan: “Placentia”
  • Catalan: “Plaisance”
  • Cebuano: “Placentia”
  • Chinese: “普拉森提亚”
  • Chinese: “普拉森蒂亚”
  • Czech: “Placentia”
  • Dutch: “Placentia (Canada)”
  • Dutch: “Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador”
  • Dutch: “Placentia”
  • Estonian: “Placentia”
  • French: “Placentia”
  • French: “Plaisance”
  • German: “Placentia”
  • German: “Plaisance”
  • German: “Plasencia”
  • Greek: “Πλασέντια, Νιουφάουντλαντ και Λαμπραντόρ”
  • Irish: “Placentia”
  • Italian: “Placentia”
  • Japanese: “プラセンチア”
  • Japanese: “プラセンティア (ニューファンドランド・ラブラドール州)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Placentia i Newfoundland og Labrador”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Placentia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plaisance i Newfoundland og Labrador”
  • Norwegian: “Placentia”
  • Portuguese: “Placentia”
  • Slovak: “Placentia”
  • Spanish: “Placentia”
  • Swedish: “Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador”
  • Swedish: “Placentia”
  • Turkish: “Placentia”
  • Ukrainian: “Пласентія”
  • “Placentia”

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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 “Placentia”. Photo: Ryan Hodnett, CC BY-SA 4.0.