Baffin Island
Baffin Island is an island in Nunavut, Canada. It's the world's fifth largest island. It is larger in area than Spain, but has a population of only 13,000 people. It lies to the west of Greenland, across the Baffin Bay. Location…Tap on the map to travel |
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Baffin Island
- Type: Island with 13,100 residents
- Description: island in Nunavut, Canada
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude of centre
69° northLongitude of centre
-72° or 72° westPopulation
13,100Elevation
303 metres (994 feet)GeoNames ID
5889292Wikidata ID
Q81178Baffin Island Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Baffin-eiland
- Arabic: Baffin
- Arabic: بافن
- Arabic: بافين
- Arabic: جزيرة بافن
- Arabic: جزيرة بافين
- Armenian: Բաֆինի երկիր
- Asturian: Islla de Baffin
- Azerbaijani: Baffin Torpağı
- Azerbaijani: Baffin adası
- Balinese: Nusa Baffin
- Bashkir: Баффин Ере
- Basque: Baffin
- Basque: Baffin Lurra
- Basque: Baffin irla
- Basque: Baffin uhartea
- Belarusian: Бафінава Зямля
- Belarusian: Зямля Бафіна
- Bengali: ব্যাফিন দ্বীপ
- Bosnian: Baffinovo ostrvo
- Bosnian: Baffinov otok
- Breton: Enez Baffin
- Bulgarian: Бафинова земя
- Catalan: Baffin
- Catalan: Baffin Island
- Catalan: Illa Baffin
- Catalan: Illa de Baffin
- Catalan: Terra de Baffin
- Catalan: illa de Baffin
- Cebuano: Pulo sa Baffin
- Chinese: Baffin Tó
- Chinese: 巴芬岛
- Chinese: 巴芬島
- Croatian: Baffin Island
- Croatian: Baffinova zemlja
- Croatian: Baffinov otok
- Croatian: Helluland
- Czech: Baffin Island
- Czech: Baffinův ostrov
- Danish: Baffin Island
- Danish: Baffin Land
- Dutch: Baffin Eiland
- Dutch: Baffineiland
- Dutch: Baffinland
- Dutch: Île de Baffin
- Egyptian Arabic: بافين
- English: Baffin Land
- Esperanto: Baffin-insulo
- Esperanto: Bafina Insulo
- Estonian: Akilinek
- Estonian: Baffini maa
- Estonian: Baffini saar
- Estonian: Qikiqtaaluk
- Faroese: Baffinsland
- Finnish: Baffin Island
- Finnish: Baffininsaari
- French: Ile de Baffin
- French: Terre de Baffin
- French: Île de Baffin
- French: île de Baffin
- Galician: Illa de Baffin
- Georgian: ბაფინის მიწა
- German: Baffin-Insel
- German: Baffin Island
- German: Baffininsel
- German: Baffinland
- Greek: Γη του Μπάφιν
- Greek: Νήσος Μπάφιν
- Greek: Νησί Μπάφιν
- Hebrew: אי באפין
- Hebrew: באפין
- Hindi: बैफ़िन द्वीप
- Hungarian: Baffin-sziget
- Icelandic: Baffineyja
- Icelandic: Baffinsland
- Indonesian: Baffin
- Indonesian: Baffin Island
- Indonesian: Pulau Baffin
- Irish: Oileán Baffin
- Italian: Baffin
- Italian: Baffin Island
- Italian: Isola Baffin
- Italian: Isola di Baffin
- Italian: Terra di Baffin
- Japanese: バッフィン島
- Japanese: バフィン島
- Kalaallisut: Baffin Island
- Kazakh: Баффин жері
- Kirghiz: Баффин жери
- Korean: 배핀섬
- Latin: Insula Baffin
- Latvian: Bafina sala
- Latvian: Bafina zeme
- Latvian: Kikiktāluka
- Lithuanian: Baffino Žemė
- Lithuanian: Bafino sala
- Lithuanian: Bafino Žemė
- Macedonian: Бафинов Остров
- Macedonian: Бафинова Земја
- Malay: Pulau Baffin
- Malayalam: ബാഫിൻ ദ്വീപ്
- Marathi: बॅफिन बेट
- Min Nan Chinese: Baffin Tó
- Mingrelian: ბაფინიშ დიხა
- Northern Frisian: Baffin Eilun
- Norwegian: Baffinøya
- Norwegian Bokmål: Baffin Island
- Norwegian Bokmål: Baffinøya
- Norwegian Bokmål: Baffinøyen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Baffin Island
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Baffinland
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Baffinøya
- Occitan (post 1500): Illa de Baffin
- Occitan (post 1500): Tèrra de Baffin
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Hellualand
- Ossetian: Баффины Зæхх
- Ossetian: Баффины зæхх
- Panjabi: ਬੈਫਿਨ ਟਾਪੂ
- Persian: جزیره بافین
- Persian: جزیرهٔ بافین
- Polish: Ziemia Baffina
- Portuguese: Baffin
- Portuguese: Ilha Baffin
- Portuguese: Ilha de Baffin
- Portuguese: Ilhas Baffin
- Romanian: Insula Baffin
- Romanian: Insula Ţara Baffin
- Romanian: Insula Țara Baffin
- Russian: Баффинова Земля
- Samogitian: Bafina žemė
- Scottish Gaelic: Baffin Island
- Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Bhaffin
- Serbian: Baffinisland
- Serbian: Бафинова земља
- Serbian: Бафиново острво
- Serbo-Croatian: Baffinov otok
- Sicilian: Ìsula Baffin
- Slovak: Baffinov ostrov
- Slovenian: Baffinov otok
- Spanish: Baffin
- Spanish: Baffin Island
- Spanish: Isla Baffin
- Spanish: Isla de Baffin
- Spanish: Tierra de Baffin
- Spanish: isla de Baffin
- Swahili: Kisiwa cha Baffin
- Swedish: Baffins land
- Swedish: Baffinön
- Swedish: Qikiqtaaluk
- Swedish: Île de Baffin
- Tagalog: Pulo ng Baffin
- Tajik: Замини Баффин
- Tamil: பாஃபின் தீவு
- Tatar: Баффин Җире
- Thai: เกาะแบฟฟิน
- Turkish: Baffin Adası
- Turkish: Baffin Island
- Ukrainian: Баффінова Земля
- Upper Sorbian: Baffinska kupa
- Urdu: جزیرہ بفین
- Uzbek: Baffin yeri
- Vietnamese: Đảo Baffin
- Waray (Philippines): Baffin
- Waray (Philippines): Baffin Island
- Waray (Philippines): Isla han Baffin
- Waray (Philippines): Puro han Baffin
- Waray (Philippines): Purô han Baffin
- Welsh: Ynys Baffin
- Western Frisian: Baffinlân
- Western Panjabi: جزیرا بیفن
- Wu Chinese: 巴芬岛
- Yue Chinese: 巴芬島
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