Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan

Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan () is a municipality located on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Minganie Regional County Municipality (RCM), Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada.

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The entry is geolocated on the map in QC, across 2 mapped points.

It sits within the topics Incorporated places in Côte-Nord and Municipalities in Quebec.

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan.jpg
Settlement.image_alt: Rue de la Mer, boardwalk, beach
Settlement.pushpin_map: Côte-Nord Region Quebec
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: top
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Côte-Nord region of Quebec
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Canada
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Quebec
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Côte-Nord
Settlement.subdivision_type3: RCM
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Minganie
Settlement.established_title: Settled
Settlement.established_date: c. 1880
Settlement.established_title1: Constituted

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Official website

Longue Pointe de Mingan

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Wikidata facts

Country: Canada
Located in: Minganie Regional County Municipality
Population: 414
Area: 641.00
Elevation: 0
Shares border with: Lac-Jérôme
Official website: longuepointedemingan.ca
Image: Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan.jpg

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Commons category: Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan
inception: 1966-01-01

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Toponymy
History
Demographics
Population
Language
Tourism
See also
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Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan () is a municipality located on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Minganie Regional County Municipality (RCM), Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada.

== Toponymy == thumb|left|Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan Boardwalk, rue de la Mer The descriptive name Longue-Pointe (French for "Long Point") refers to a long spit of sand west of the village that has had various names through the centuries: first called Longue Pointe on a map of 1735, followed by the English form of Long Point in the late 17th and early 18th century, then Mingan Point on the map of Captain Carver (1776). James Cook and Placide Vigneau called it Pointe de Mingan (1784) and Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan (1857) respectively.

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