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The
Labrador Peninsula
is a large
peninsula
in eastern
Canada
. It is bounded by the
Hudson Bay
to the west, the
Hudson Strait
to the north, the
Labrador Sea
to the east, and the
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
to the southeast. The peninsula includes the region of
Labrador
, which is part of the province of
Newfoundland and Labrador
, and the regions of
Saguenay?Lac-Saint-Jean
,
Cote-Nord
, and
Nord-du-Quebec
, which are in the province of
Quebec
. It has an area of 1,400,000 km
2
(541,000 sq mi).
The peninsula is very sparsely populated, especially in the north.