Sultan | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Northeastern Ontario |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Sudbury |
Subdivision Type4: | Part |
Subdivision Name4: | Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part |
Pushpin Map: | Ontario |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Sultan in Ontario |
Coordinates: | 47.5917°N -82.7575°W |
Leader Title: | MP |
Leader Name: | Carol Hughes |
Area Total Km2: | 2.55 |
Elevation M: | 448 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 49 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | Eastern Time Zone |
Utc Offset1: | -5 |
Timezone1 Dst: | Eastern Time Zone |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code FSA |
Postal Code: | P0M |
Area Code: | 705, 249 |
Sultan is an unincorporated community in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
The local economy is based primarily on hunting and related tourism. In the past the logging industry formed the mainstay of the economy. Children from Sultan attend school in Chapleau, 68km (42miles) away.
The primary access to Sultan by car is by Highway 667 and Sultan Industrial Road, an unpaved logging road connecting to Highway 144. Via Rail's Sudbury–White River train goes through Sultan, providing an alternate transportation route to White River and Sudbury, although the Sultan railway station is a flag stop[1] and consists of only a stop sign.
Sultan was formerly administered by a local services board, which was dissolved in 2008. The community, which holds the status of designated place in Statistics Canada census data, had a reported population of 49 in the Canada 2011 Census.[2]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sultan had a population of 45 living in 26 of its 53 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 64. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]