Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay lies at the far northwestern point of the of . It is a transportation bridge between the rich agricultural Prairies of and the rest of the world, via the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway which connects it to the Atlantic Ocean.
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  • Type: City with 108,000 residents
  • Description: city in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
  • Also known as: “Fort William”, “Port Arthur”, “Thunder Bay (Ontario)”, “Thunder Bay, ON”, “Tondrogolfo”, “Тандер Бей”, “Тандер Бэй”, “Тандер-Бэй”, “선더 베이”, “썬더 베이”, and “썬더베이”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Intercity Shopping Centre and Chapples Park.

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Thunder Bay

Latitude
48.4064° or 48° 24′ 23″ north
Longitude
-89.2598° or 89° 15′ 35″ west
Population
108,000
Elevation
188 metres (617 feet)
IATA airport code
YQT
UN/LOCODE
CA THU
Open location code
86WGCP4R+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 19188467
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6166142
Wiki­data ID
Q34116
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Thunder Bay” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Thunder Bay, Ontario”
  • Afrikaans: “Thunder Bay”
  • Albanian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Arabic: “ثاندر باي”
  • Armenian: “Թանդեր Բեյ”
  • Asturian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Atikamekw: “Thunder Bay”
  • Basque: “Thunder Bay”
  • Bavarian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Belarusian: “Тандэр-Бэй”
  • Bengali: “থান্ডার বে”
  • Bulgarian: “Тъндърбей”
  • Catalan: “Thunder Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Thunder Bay”
  • Chinese: “桑德贝”
  • Chinese: “珊德灣”
  • Chinese: “雷灣”
  • Czech: “Thunder Bay”
  • Danish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Thunder Bay, Ontario”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Thunder Bay”
  • Dutch: “Thunder Bay”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ثاندر باى, اونتاريو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ثاندر باى”
  • Esperanto: “Thunder Bay”
  • Estonian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Finnish: “Thunder Bay”
  • French: “Thunder Bay”
  • German: “Thunder Bay”
  • Greek: “Θάντερ Μπέι”
  • Gujarati: “થન્ડર બે”
  • Hebrew: “ת’אנדר ביי”
  • Hebrew: “תאנדר ביי”
  • Hindi: “थंडर बे”
  • Hungarian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Ido: “Thunder Bay”
  • Indonesian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Irish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Italian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Japanese: “サンダーベイ”
  • Kannada: “ಥಂಡರ್ ಬೇ”
  • Korean: “선더베이”
  • Kurdish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Latvian: “Tanderbeja”
  • Lithuanian: “Tander Bėjus”
  • Malay: “Thunder Bay”
  • Malayalam: “തണ്ടർ ബേ”
  • Marathi: “थंडर बे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thunder Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thunder Bay”
  • Norwegian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Thunder Bay”
  • Ossetian: “Тандер-Бей”
  • Persian: “ثاندر بی”
  • Polish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Thunder Bay”
  • Russian: “Тандер-Бей”
  • Serbian: “Тандер Беј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Silesian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Sinhala: “තන්ඩර් බේ”
  • Slovak: “Thunder Bay”
  • Slovenian: “Thunder Bay”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ثاندر بی”
  • Spanish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Swahili: “Thunder Bay, Ontario”
  • Swahili: “Thunder Bay”
  • Swedish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Tagalog: “Thunder Bay”
  • Tamil: “தண்டர் பே”
  • Tatar: “Тандер-Бей”
  • Telugu: “థండర్ బే”
  • Thai: “ธันเดอร์เบย์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Turkish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Ukrainian: “Тандер-Бей”
  • Urdu: “تھنڈربے، انٹاریو”
  • Urdu: “تھنڈربے”
  • Venetian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Vietnamese: “Thunder Bay”
  • Volapük: “Thunder Bay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thunder Bay”
  • Welsh: “Thunder Bay”
  • Western Panjabi: “تھنڈر بے”
  • “Thunder Bay”

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