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Timmins

city in northeastern Ontario, Canada
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Summary

Timmins is a city[1]. Timmins ranks in the top 6% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,486 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Cochrane District[3]
  • Country: Canada[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Mattagami River[5]
  • Instance of: single-tier municipality[6]
  • Shares border with: Unorganized North Cochrane District[7]
  • Named after: Henry Timmins[8], Noah Timmins[9]
  • Twinned administrative body: Naoshima[10]
  • Location: Northeastern Ontario[11]
  • Part of: Northern Ontario[12]
  • Commons category: Timmins, Ontario[13]
  • Inception: 1912[14]
  • Significant event: Porcupine Gold Rush[15]
  • Official website: http://www.timmins.ca/[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Timmins[17]
  • Population: 41,788[18], 43,165[19], 47,499[20], 42,997[21], 43,686[22]
  • Contains settlement: Porcupine[23], South Porcupine[24], Schumacher[25]
  • Category for people born here: Q8075432[26]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Timmins[27]
  • Elevation above sea level: 294.7 m[28]
  • Area: 2978.83 km²[29]
  • Significant person: Benny Hollinger[30]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Timmins include Timmins/Victor M. Power Airport[31], an airport[32], in Canada[33].

Why It Matters

Timmins has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] Timmins is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for Timmins include Timmins/Victor M. Power Airport[31], an airport[32], in Canada[33].

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Canadian Geographical Names Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . ontario.ca. Retrieved . ontario.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . Ontario Geographic Names Map Viewer. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . Ontario Geographic Names Map Viewer. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . canadainternational.gc.ca. canadainternational.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . timmins.ca. Retrieved . timmins.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Canada 2016 Census. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Canada 2016 Census. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Canada 1996 Census. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Canada 2006 Census. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Canada 2001 Census. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Canada 2016 Census. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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