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Rankin Inlet

Rankin Inlet, is an active community of 2,800 people in mainland . It is a government village and an air transport hub for travel between Nunavut and the centre and west of Canada.
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  • Type: Town with 2,580 residents
  • Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
  • Also known as: “Kangiqiniq”, “Rankin Inlet, NU”, and “Rankin Inlet, Nunavut”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rankin Inlet Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is located at Rankin Inlet, , Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut. In December 2005 the Government of Nunavut announced that they would spend $3 million to improve the Instrument Landing System and expand the apron.

Rankin Inlet

Latitude
62.803° or 62° 48′ 11″ north
Longitude
-92.0868° or 92° 5′ 13″ west
Population
2,580
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
YRT
United Nations Location Code
CA RIT
Open location code
96J9RW37+67
Open­Street­Map ID
node 107351556
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6116548
Wiki­data ID
Q1021766
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Satellite Map

Discover Rankin Inlet from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Rankin Inlet” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Arabic: “رانكين إنلات”
  • Arabic: “رانكين”
  • Bengali: “র‍্যাঙ্কিন ইনলেট”
  • Catalan: “Kangiqiniq”
  • Catalan: “Kangirliniq”
  • Catalan: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Cebuano: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Chinese: “兰金”
  • Chinese: “兰金因莱特”
  • Chinese: “蘭金因萊特”
  • Czech: “rankin inlet”
  • Danish: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Dutch: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رانكين انليت”
  • Esperanto: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Finnish: “Rankin Inlet”
  • French: “Kangiqtiniq”
  • French: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Galician: “Kangiqliniq”
  • Galician: “Kangirliniq”
  • Galician: “Rankin Inlet”
  • German: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Greek: “Ράνκιν Ίνλετ”
  • Gujarati: “રેન્કિન ઇનલેટ”
  • Hindi: “रैंकिन इनलेट”
  • Indonesian: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᖅ”
  • Italian: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Japanese: “ランキン・インレット”
  • Kannada: “ರನ್ಕಿನ್ ಇನ್ಲೆಟ್”
  • Korean: “랜킨 인렛”
  • Latvian: “Rankininleta”
  • Lithuanian: “Rankino įlanka”
  • Malay: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Marathi: “रँकिन इनलेट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Norwegian: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Persian: “رنکین اینلت”
  • Polish: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Portuguese: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Russian: “Ранкин-Инлет”
  • Russian: “Рэнкин-Инлет”
  • Serbian: “Ренкин Инлет”
  • Sinhala: “රැන්කයින් ඉන්ලේට්”
  • Spanish: “Rankin Inlet (Nunavut)”
  • Spanish: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Swedish: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Tamil: “ரான்கின் இன்லெட்”
  • Telugu: “రాంకిన్ ఇన్లెట్”
  • Thai: “แรงกินอินเลท”
  • Turkish: “Rankin Inlet”
  • Ukrainian: “Ранкін-Інлет”
  • Urdu: “رنکن ان لٹ، نناوت”
  • Urdu: “رنکن ان لٹ، نُناوُت”
  • Urdu: “رنکن ان لٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Rankin Inlet”

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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 “Rankin Inlet”. Photo: Shawn, CC BY-SA 2.0.