Inverness County, Nova Scotia

Inverness County
*Comté d'Inverness* (French)
*Siorramachd Inbhir Nis* (Scottish Gaelic)
Inverness County; Comté d'Inverness (French); Siorramachd Inbhir Nis (Scottish Gaelic)
County
	Cabot Trail seen from the Skyline Trail
	Location of Inverness County, Nova Scotia
	Coordinates: 46.2°N 61.1°W
Country	Canada
Province	Nova Scotia
Towns	Port Hawkesbury
Established as Juste au Corps	1835
Renamed Inverness	1837
Incorporated	17 April, 1879
Electoral Districts ; Federal	; Cape Breton—Canso / Sydney—Victoria
Provincial	Inverness
Government
• Type	Municipality of the County of Inverness
Area
• Land	3,831.17 km2 (1,479.22 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	17,346
• Density	4.5/km2 (12/sq mi)
• Change 2016-21	0.6%
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Area code	902
Dwellings	9,876
Median Income*	$45,687 CDN
	Median household income, 2005 (all households);

Inverness County is an historical county and census division of Nova Scotia, Canada located on Cape Breton Island. Local government is provided by the Municipality of the County of Inverness, the town of Port Hawkesbury and the Whycocomagh 2 Waycobah First Nation reserve.

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