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Saint John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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The coastal city of Saint John's is located on the Avalon Peninsula of southeast Newfoundland.

Typical abbreviation for Saint John's: St. Johns

Time Zone: Saint John's lies in the Newfoundland Time Zone (NST/NDT) and observes daylight saving time.

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At the time of the 2006 StatCan Census, Saint John's had a population of 100,646 people<2>. This is an increase of 1.48% since the previous Census (with 99,182 people in 2001).

With 100,646 people, Saint John's represented 19.91% of the total population of Newfoundland and Labrador, making it the province's most populous community.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2006
Population
Change
Since 2001
 Bay Bulls   SW16 mi [25.75 km]1,0786.31% increase
 Conception Bay South   W14 mi [22.53 km]21,96611.1% increase
 Logy Bay - Middle Cove - Outer Cove   N5 mi [8.05 km]1,9785.66% increase
 Mount Pearl   SW5 mi [8.05 km]24,6711.17% decrease
 Paradise   W10 mi [16.09 km]12,58431.11% increase
 Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove   S6 mi [9.66 km]9153.58% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Saint John's.

Website for Saint John's

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for Saint John's, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.




Search for Local Businesses

People have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Saint John's. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

Official Website:   www.stjohns.ca/
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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Saint John's? Please visit the Map Page for Saint John's.


Footnotes

<1>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Saint John's, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<2>Unless noted otherwise, the population counts we use are estimates. Our population values come different sources and should not be considered official.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Saint John's and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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