{{Short description|Community in Nova Scotia, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} thumb|right|250px|St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia '''Whycocomagh''' ({{IPAc-en|w|aɪ|ˈ|k|ɒ|k|ə|m|ɑː}}) is an unincorporated community on the eastern edge of the Municipality of the County of Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada. The population in 2001 was 854.<ref name="NS Community counts">{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.ns.ca/finance/communitycounts/topicresults.asp?tnum=1&gval=com&tsection=&yval=2001|title=Community Counts|publisher=}}</ref>
The name derives from the Mi'kmaq language and relates to being near the water.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHYCOCOMAGH MUNICIPAL PLANNING STRATEGY |url=https://www.edpc.ca/plandocs/whycocomagh/Whycocomagh_MPS.pdf |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref> In Scottish Gaelic it is called Hogamà.<ref>{{cite book | author-last=Dunbar|author-first=Robert | editor-last=Elsweiler|editor-first=Christine | date= 2024 | chapter=The languages of Scotland and Ulster in a global context past and present: Selected papers from the 13th triennial Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Munich 2021 | title=Nova Scotian Gaelic: More than a Fossil | publisher=University of Aberdeen | series=Publications of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster | url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/media/site/llmvc/documents/Chapter_9_Nova_Scotian_Gaelic.pdf | isbn=978-0-9566549-7-7}} </ref>
{{Location map|Canada Nova Scotia |width=220 |lon_dir=W|lat_dir=N |lat_deg = 45 |lat_min = 58 |lat_sec = 36.07 |lon_deg = 61 |lon_min = 7 |lon_sec = 4.7 |caption = Whycocomagh in Nova Scotia }}
It is located where the Skye River flows into St. Patrick's Channel, an arm of Bras d'Or Lake in the central part of Cape Breton Island, next to the Whycocomagh 2 reserve.
The town is a local service centre and has an education centre, elementary school, and the Whycocomagh Provincial Park.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Whycocomagh {{!}} Nova Scotia Parks|url=https://parks.novascotia.ca/park/whycocomagh|access-date=2021-08-04|website=parks.novascotia.ca}}</ref>
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Category:Communities in Inverness County, Nova Scotia Category:Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia Category:Mi'kmaq place names
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