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Thunder Bay District

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, province of Ontario, Canada
  • Also known as: “Port Arthur”, “Thunder Bay, ON”, and “Thunder Bay, Ontario”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Intercity Shopping Centre and Chapples Park.

Shopping center
Photo: Vidioman, CC BY 3.0.
is a in Thunder Bay, , Canada. It was one of the first shopping malls in Thunder Bay and is the largest of its kind in , with 456,430 square feet of retail space.

Park
is located in the centre of Fort William, , which today forms the south end of Thunder Bay. It forms a key part of Thunder Bay's recreation trail system.

Arts center
The is 's largest art gallery specializing in the work of contemporary Indigenous artists. It is located on the campus of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, , Canada.

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
United Nations Location Code
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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Satellite Map

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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: “Port Arthur”
  • Bavarian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Belarusian: “Тандэр-Бэй”
  • Bengali: “থান্ডার বে”
  • Bulgarian: “Тъндърбей”
  • Catalan: “Thunder Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Thunder Bay”
  • Chinese: “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”
  • Esperanto: “Tondrogolfo”
  • Estonian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Finnish: “Thunder Bay”
  • French: “Fort William”
  • French: “Port Arthur”
  • French: “Thunder Bay”
  • German: “Port Arthur”
  • 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: “선더 베이”
  • Korean: “선더베이”
  • Korean: “썬더 베이”
  • Korean: “썬더베이”
  • Kurdish: “Thunder Bay”
  • Latvian: “Tanderbeja”
  • Lithuanian: “Tander Bėjus”
  • Lithuanian: “Thunder Bay”
  • Malay: “Thunder Bay”
  • Malayalam: “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”
  • Russian: “Тандер Бэй”
  • Russian: “Тандер-Бей”
  • Russian: “Тандер-Бэй”
  • Serbian: “Thunder Bay”
  • 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 (Ontario)”
  • 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”
  • 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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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 “Thunder Bay”. Photo: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0.