Shawinigan
Shawinigan is a city of 50,000 people in the Mauricie region of Quebec. It arose because of its tremendous hydro-electric generation capacity, and is now focusing on tourism.
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Top destinations: La Mauricie National Park.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shawinigan station and Former N.A.C. Power House.
Shawinigan station
Railway station
Former N.A.C. Power House
Museum
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shawinigan-Sud.
Shawinigan
- Type: City with 49,600 residents
- Description: city in Québec, Canada
- Also known as: “Chaouinigane”, “Chûtes-de-Shawinigan”, “Saint-Pierre-de-Shawinigan”, “Shawinigan (Québec)”, “Shawinigan Falls”, “Shawinigan-Falls”, “Shawinigan, QC”, “ショーウィニガン”, “沙維尼根”, “沙维尼根”, “舍維寧根”, and “舍维宁根”
- Neighbors: Grandes-Piles, Hérouxville, Les Chenaux, Maskinongé Region, Mékinac, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Saint-Boniface, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, Saint-Narcisse, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, and Trois-Rives
- Categories: equivalent territory, city or town of Quebec, territory outside RCM in Quebec, census division of Canada, village municipality of Quebec, city, and locality
- Location: Shawinigan, Mauricie, Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.5397° or 46° 32′ 23″ north
Longitude
-72.7519° or 72° 45′ 7″ west
Population
49,600
Elevation
123 metres (404 feet)
IATA airport code
XFL
UN/LOCODE
CA SHA
Open location code
87R9G6QX+V7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Shawinigan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شاوينيغان”
- Armenian: “Շավինիգան”
- Atikamekw: “Cawinikan”
- Basque: “Shawinigan”
- Belarusian: “Шавініган”
- Bengali: “শাওনিগান”
- Cebuano: “Shawinigan”
- Chinese: “沙威尼根”
- Czech: “Shawinigan”
- Danish: “Shawinigan”
- Dutch: “Shawinigan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شاوينيجان”
- Estonian: “Shawinigan”
- Finnish: “Shawinigan”
- French: “Shawinigan”
- German: “Shawinigan”
- Greek: “Σαουινιγκάν”
- Gujarati: “શોવિનિગન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Shawinigan”
- Hebrew: “שויניגן”
- Hindi: “शवनिगं”
- Indonesian: “Shawinigan”
- Irish: “Shawinigan”
- Italian: “Shawinigan”
- Japanese: “シャウィニガン”
- Kannada: “ಶವಿನಿಗನ್”
- Korean: “샤위니간”
- Korean: “셔위니건”
- Latvian: “Šavinigana”
- Lithuanian: “Šaviniganas”
- Malagasy: “Shawinigan”
- Malay: “Shawinigan”
- Marathi: “शॉनिगन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shawinigan”
- Persian: “شاوینیگان”
- Polish: “Shawinigan”
- Portuguese: “Shawinigan”
- Romanian: “Shawinigan”
- Russian: “Шавиниган”
- Scots: “Shawinigan”
- Serbian: “Shawinigan”
- Serbian: “Схаwиниган”
- Serbian: “Шавиниган”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shawinigan”
- Sinhala: “ශවිනිගන්”
- South Azerbaijani: “شاوینیگان”
- Spanish: “Shawinigan”
- Swahili: “Shawinigan, Quebec”
- Swahili: “Shawinigan”
- Swedish: “Shawinigan”
- Tamil: “ஷாவினிகன்”
- Telugu: “శావినిగాన్”
- Thai: “ชาวีนีกาน”
- Turkish: “Shawinigan”
- Ukrainian: “Шавініган”
- Urdu: “شاونیگن”
- Urdu: “شاوینیجان”
- Vietnamese: “Shawinigan”
- Volapük: “Shawinigan”
- Welsh: “Shawinigan”
- “Shawinigan”
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