Chibougamau
Chibougamau, population 7500, is the largest regional centre in Northern Quebec. It was founded as a mining village in 1950, and was incorporated as a municipality in 1954.Photo: Clifden, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Photo: Simon Villeneuve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 7,500 residents
- Description: town of Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Chibougamau, QC” and “Chibougamau, Quebec”
- Neighbors: Baie-James
Chibougamau
- Categories: city or town of Quebec, territory outside RCM in Quebec, and locality
- Location: Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.9137° or 49° 54′ 50″ northLongitude
-74.3714° or 74° 22′ 17″ westPopulation
7,500Elevation
407 metres (1,335 feet)IATA airport code
YMTUnited Nations Location Code
CA YMTOpen location code
87X7WJ7H+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2007463396OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5921147Wikidata ID
Q141918
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Chibougamau” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيبوغامو”
- Atikamekw: “Cepokamo”
- Basque: “Chibougamau”
- Bengali: “চিবুগামাউ”
- Catalan: “Chibougamau”
- Cebuano: “Chibougamau”
- Chinese: “奇布加莫”
- Chinese: “希布加莫”
- Dagbani: “Chibougamau”
- Danish: “Chibougamau”
- Dimli (individual language): “Chibougamau, Quebec”
- Dimli (individual language): “Chibougamau”
- Dutch: “Chibougamau”
- Estonian: “Chibougamau”
- Finnish: “Chibougamau”
- French: “Chibougamau”
- German: “Chibougamau”
- Greek: “Τσιμπουγκαμάου”
- Gujarati: “ચિબોગામાઉ”
- Hindi: “चिबोगामाऊ”
- Indonesian: “Chibougamau”
- Italian: “Chibougamau”
- Japanese: “シブガモー”
- Kannada: “ಚಿಬುಗಮಾವು”
- Korean: “치보가마우”
- Latvian: “Čibugamau”
- Lithuanian: “Čibugamau”
- Malay: “Chibougamau”
- Marathi: “चिबोगामाऊ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chibougamau”
- Persian: “شیبوکامو”
- Polish: “Chibougamau”
- Portuguese: “Chibougamau”
- Russian: “Шибугамо”
- Serbian: “Chibougamau”
- Serbian: “Цхибоугамау”
- Serbian: “Шибугамо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chibougamau”
- Sinhala: “චිබෞගමෞ”
- Spanish: “Chibougamau (Québec)”
- Spanish: “Chibougamau”
- Swedish: “Chibougamau”
- Tamil: “சிபாவுகாமஉ”
- Telugu: “చిబోవుగామం”
- Thai: “ชิบูกาโม”
- Turkish: “Chibougamau”
- Ukrainian: “Шибугамо”
- Urdu: “چیبووجاماو”
- Vietnamese: “Chibougamau”
- Volapük: “Chibougamau”
- Western Panjabi: “چبوگاماؤ”
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