Rural municipality in Prince Edward Island, Canada
Wellington is arural municipality inPrince Edward Island , Canada.[ 2] It is located inPrince County , and extends asWellington Centre ontoRoute 2 fromRichmond through to St. Nicholas.
Located in the "Evangeline Region,"[further explanation needed ] a cluster ofAcadian communities in the central part of Prince County, Wellington is served by Route 2 and until 1989 was served by thePrince Edward Island Railway . Wellington is home to the head office ofCollège Acadie Î.-P.-É.
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada , Wellington had a population of 414 living in 197 of its 211 total private dwellings, a change of -0.2% from its 2016 population of 415 . With a land area of 1.7 km2 (0.66 sq mi), it had a population density of 243.5/km2 (630.7/sq mi) in 2021.[ 14]
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