| Official Name: | Point May |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 254 |
| Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
| Coordinates: | 46.9003°N -55.9278°W |
Point May is the most southerly community on the Burin Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador with a population of 254 in 2021. It is a Catholic community with a church, town hall, fire hall, softball and soccer field. It is known for its close proximity, 190NaN0, to the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, where the smuggling of liquor and tobacco has been a way of life since before Canada was a country.[1] [2] [3] The tiny Canadian Green Island lies 100NaN0 west of Point May, roughly halfway to St. Pierre.[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Point May had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 63.25km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]