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Location of Nova Scotia in Canada Distribution of Nova Scotia's 49 municipalities by municipal status type. Nova Scotia is the seventh-most populous province in Canada with 969,383 residents as of the 2021 Census of Population, and the second-smallest province in land area at 52,824.71 km 2 (20,395.73 sq mi). [1]
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (often referred to as simply "CBRM") is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's second largest municipality and the economic heart of Cape Breton Island. [5] As of 2021 the municipality has a population of 93,694. [ 6 ]
Distribution of Nova Scotia's 27 towns by population. A town is a type of municipality in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia. Towns are incorporated by order by the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board pursuant to sections 383 through 388 of Nova Scotia's Municipal Government Act. [1] Nova Scotia had 26 towns at the time of the 2016 Census ...
This is a list of communities in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, as designated by the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as an unincorporated settlement inside or outside a municipality.
Nova Scotia [a] is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.It is one of the three Maritime provinces and most populous province in Atlantic Canada, with an estimated population of over 1 million as of 2024; it is also the second-most densely populated province in Canada, and second-smallest province by area. [11]
1759: the Nova Scotia peninsula was divided into five counties: Annapolis, Cumberland, Halifax, Kings, and Lunenburg. 1765: the colonies of Cape Breton and Nova Scotia were merged, and Cape Breton County was added. 1762-1836: Queens, Shelburne, and Yarmouth separated from Lunenburg. 1781: Hants separated from Kings.
Cape Breton County is one of eighteen counties in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located on Cape Breton Island . From 1879 to 1995, the area of the county excluded from towns and cities was incorporated as the Municipality of the County of Cape Breton to provide local government services.
Cape Dauphin lies at the foot of Cape Dauphin Mountain which rises to the southwest to a summit of 334.1 metres (1,096 ft) above the shores of the cape. The easternmost tip of Cape Dauphin is composed of karst topography and has several solution caves in the area, one of which, "Fairy Hole" is a sea cave reputedly linked to various legends of ...