Halifax
Halifax is the capital city of Nova Scotia and the largest city in Atlantic Canada. The city's origins and rich maritime history derive from a strategic location and one of the world's great natural harbours.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Scotiabank Centre
Stadium
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Scotiabank Centre is the largest multi-purpose facility in Atlantic Canada, located in the heart of downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
HMCS Sackville
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HMCS Sackville is a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later served as a civilian research vessel.
NSCAD University
College
NSCAD University, also known as the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, is a public art university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Localities in the Area
Dartmouth
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Dartmouth is a city in the Halifax Region of Nova Scotia, on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour.
Hydrostone
Neighborhood
Photo: Verne Equinox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hydrostone is a neighbourhood in the North End of the Halifax Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Halifax
- Type: City with 403,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada
- Categories: regional municipality in Canada, provincial or territorial capital city in Canada, big city, metropolitan area and locality
- Location: Halifax Region, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.647° or 44° 38' 49" northLongitude
-63.5732° or 63° 34' 24" westPopulation
403,000Elevation
60 metres (197 feet)IATA airport code
YHZUnited Nations Location Code
CA HALOpen Location Code
87PRJCWG+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 24922221OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6324729Wikidata ID
Q2141Halifax Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Afrikaans: Halifax
- Albanian: Halifaks
- Albanian: Halifax
- Amharic: ሃሊፋክስ
- Arabic: Munisipyo Rehiyonal han Halifax
- Arabic: هاليفاكس
- Armenian: Հալիֆաքս
- Asturian: Halifax
- Atikamekw: Halifax
- Azerbaijani: Halifaks
- Balinese: Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Banjar: Halifax
- Basque: Halifax
- Belarusian: Галіфакс
- Bengali: হ্যালিফ্যাক্স, নোভা স্কোশিয়া
- Bosnian: Halifax
- Breton: Halifax
- Bulgarian: Халифакс
- Burmese: ဟဲလဖက်မြို့
- Catalan: Halifax
- Cebuano: Halifax
- Central Kurdish: هالیفاکس
- Chinese: Halifax Tē-khu Chhī
- Chinese: 哈利法克斯
- Chinese: 哈利法斯
- Chinese: 哈拉法斯
- Chinese: 哈里法克斯
- Cornish: Halifax
- Croatian: Halifax
- Czech: Halifax
- Danish: Halifax
- Dimli (individual language): Halifax
- Dutch: Halifax
- Egyptian Arabic: هاليفاكس
- English: HRM
- English: Halifax, Nova Scotia
- English: Halifax Regional Municipality
- Esperanto: Halifakso
- Esperanto: Halifax
- Estonian: Halifax
- Faroese: Halifax
- Finnish: Halifax
- French: Halifax
- Galician: Halifax, Nova Escocia
- Galician: Halifax
- Georgian: ჰალიფაქსი
- German: Halifax
- Greek: Χάλιφαξ
- Gujarati: હેલિફેક્સ
- Hebrew: הליפקס
- Hindi: हालीफैक्स
- Hungarian: Halifax
- Icelandic: Halifax
- Ido: Halifax
- Indonesian: Halifax
- Irish: Halifax, Albain Nua
- Italian: Halifax
- Japanese: ハリファックス
- Japanese: ハリファックス市
- Japanese: ハリファックス都市圏
- Kalaallisut: Halifax
- Kannada: ಹೆಲಿಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಸ್
- Kazakh: Галифакс
- Kirghiz: Галифакс
- Korean: 핼리팩스
- Kurdish: Halifax
- Latin: Halifaxia
- Latvian: Helifeksa
- Ligurian: Halifax
- Lithuanian: Halifaksas
- Lombard: Halifax
- Macedonian: Халифакс
- Malagasy: Halifax
- Malay: Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Malay: Halifax
- Malayalam: ഹാലിഫാക്സ്
- Maltese: Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Maltese: Halifax
- Marathi: हॅलिफॅक्स
- Min Nan Chinese: Halifax Tē-khu Chhī
- Mongolian: Халифакс
- Northern Frisian: Halifax (Nova Scotia)
- Northern Frisian: Halifax
- Norwegian: Halifax
- Norwegian Bokmål: Halifax
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Halifax
- Occitan (post 1500): Halifax
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Halifax
- Ossetian: Галифакс
- Panjabi: ਹੈਲੀਫ਼ੈਕਸ, ਨੋਵਾ ਸਕੋਸ਼ਾ
- Panjabi: ਹੈਲੀਫ਼ੈਕਸ ਖੇਤਰੀ ਨਗਰਪਾਲਿਕਾ
- Persian: هالیفاکس
- Persian: هلیفکس، نوا اسکوشیا
- Polish: Halifax
- Portuguese: Halifax
- Portuguese: Halifax, Nova Escócia
- Quechua: Halifax
- Romanian: Halifax, Noua Scoție
- Romanian: Halifax
- Russian: Галифакс
- Rusyn: Галифакс
- Sardinian: Halifax
- Scots: Halifax
- Scottish Gaelic: Halafacs
- Scottish Gaelic: Halifax
- Serbian: Халифакс
- Serbo-Croatian: Halifax
- Silesian: Halifax
- Sinhala: හැලිෆැක්ස්
- Slovak: Halifax
- Slovenian: Halifax, Nova Škotska
- Slovenian: Halifax
- South Azerbaijani: هالیفاکس، نووا اسکوشیا
- South Azerbaijani: هلیفکس، نوا اسکوشیا
- Spanish: Halifax
- Spanish: Halifax (Nueva Escocia)
- Spanish: Municipio regional de Halifax
- Swahili: Halifax
- Swedish: Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Swedish: Halifax
- Tagalog: Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Tagalog: Halifax
- Tajik: Ҳалифакс
- Tamil: ஹாலிஃபாக்ஸ்
- Tamil: ஹெலிஃபக்ஸ்
- Tatar: Һәлифәкс
- Telugu: హాలిఫాక్స్
- Thai: แฮลิแฟกซ์
- Turkish: Halifax
- Turkmen: Galifaks
- Uighur: Halifaks
- Ukrainian: Галіфакс
- Urdu: ہیلی فیکس
- Uzbek: Galifaks
- Uzbek: Galifax
- Venetian: Halifax (Cànada)
- Venetian: Halifax
- Vietnamese: Halifax
- Volapük: Halifax
- Waray (Philippines): Munisipyo Rehiyonal han Halifax
- Welsh: Halifax
- Western Panjabi: ہیلی فیکس
- Wu Chinese: 哈利法克斯
- Yue Chinese: 哈利法斯
- Hfx
- ma tomo Alipasi
- ھالیفاکس
- हैलीफ़ैक्स
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