Labrador
Labrador is the mostly remote and sparsely settled mainland portion of Newfoundland and Labrador. Named for 15th-century Portuguese explorer João Fernandes Lavrador, it's “the big land”: vast wilderness areas with abundant wildlife, whales and icebergs, some of the highest peaks east of the Canadian Rockies, and — almost as an afterthought — some widely scattered pockets of human habitation.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Nunatsiavut
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Nunatsiavut is a vast but sparsely-populated rural area in northern Labrador which comprises five widely-scattered native villages and three abandoned ghost towns spread across over 72,000 square kilometres of land.
Forteau
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Forteau is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
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Happy Valley-Goose Bay is a town of 8,080 people in Labrador, Canada founded in 1941 as a military base and seaport.
Destinations
Labrador City
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Labrador City and Wabush are a pair of towns in Labrador West on the Quebec border.
Torngat Mountains National Park
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Torngat Mountains National Park is a Canadian national park on the Labrador Peninsula in Nunatsiavut, occupies the northernmost tip of Labrador, Canada.
Cartwright
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Cartwright is a tiny coastal fishing village on the southeastern coast of Labrador with a population of about 440 people in 2021.
Port Hope Simpson
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Port Hope Simpson is a town located on the southeastern Labrador coast, 215 km from the Quebec/Southern Labrador border in Canada.
Wabush
Wabush is a town in western Labrador, close to the Quebec border, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.Mealy Mountains National Park
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Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve is a Canadian national park reserve in central Labrador.
Churchill Falls
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Churchill Falls in Labrador is one of the last company towns in Atlantic Canada.
North West River
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North West River is a small town of 560 settled by Europeans in 1743 as a fur trading post in Labrador, about 40 km northeast of Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
Labrador
- Type: region with 26,700 residents
- Description: region in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Location: Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
56° northLongitude of centre
-61° or 61° westPopulation
26,700Wikidata ID
Q380307Labrador Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Labrador
- Arabic: لابرادور
- Arabic: لبرادور
- Breton: Labrador
- Bulgarian: Лабрадор
- Burmese: လာဗရာဒေါနယ်
- Catalan: Labrador
- Chinese: Labrador
- Chinese: 拉布拉多
- Czech: Labrador
- Danish: Labrador
- Dutch: Labrador
- English: Nunatsuak
- Esperanto: Labradoro
- Finnish: Labrador
- French: Etat du Labrador
- French: Labrador
- French: Région du Labrador
- French: État du Labrador
- German: Labrador
- Greek: Λαμπραντόρ
- Icelandic: Labrador
- Iloko: Labrador
- Indonesian: Labrador
- Irish: Labradar
- Irish: Labradóir
- Italian: Costa del Labrador
- Italian: Labrador
- Japanese: ヌナツァク
- Japanese: ラブラドル
- Japanese: ラブラドール
- Japanese: ラブラドール地方
- Korean: 래브라도
- Lao: Labrador
- Latin: Labrador
- Latin: Terra Laboratoria
- Lithuanian: Labradoras
- Mazanderani: لابرادور
- Min Nan Chinese: Labrador
- Norwegian: Labrador
- Norwegian Bokmål: Labrador
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Labrador
- Occitan (post 1500): Labrador
- Persian: لابرادور
- Polish: Labrador
- Portuguese: Labrador
- Russian: Лабрадор (Канада)
- Russian: Лабрадор (регион)
- Russian: Лабрадор
- Scots: Labrador
- Scottish Gaelic: Labrador
- Serbian: Лабрадор
- Serbo-Croatian: Labrador
- Slovak: Labrador
- Slovenian: Labrador
- Spanish: Costa de Labrador
- Spanish: Labrador
- Swedish: Labrador
- Tamil: லாப்ரடோர்
- Ukrainian: Лабрадор
- Venetian: Labrador
- Vietnamese: Labrador
- Waray (Philippines): Labrador (rehiyon)
- Welsh: Labrador
- Western Frisian: Labrador
- Yoruba: Labrador
- Yue Chinese: 拉布拉多
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Labrador. Photo: Mola29, CC BY-SA 3.0.