Kings County (2021 population 18,327
) is located in eastern
Prince Edward Island
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, Canada.
It is the province's smallest, most rural and least-populated county. Kings County is also least dependent upon the agriculture industry compared with the other two counties, while being more heavily dependent on the fishery and forest industry. Comparatively large parts of the county are still forested and it hosts the province's largest sawmill. The only
heavy industry
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, aside from forestry and industrial farming, is a small shipyard, although secondary manufacturing has been established in recent years.
The county was named by Capt.
Samuel Holland in 1765 for King
George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and ...
(1738–1820). As such, Kings County's
shire town
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is
Georgetown. The largest community within the town of
Three Rivers.
Demographics
As a
census division
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in the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Kings County had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Communities
*Towns
**
Three Rivers
**
Souris
*Municipalities
**
Annandale
**
Central Kings
**
Eastern Kings
**
Morell
**
Murray Harbour
**
Murray River
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**
Souris West
**
St. Peters Bay
*Unincorporated
**
Fortune Bridge
**
Valleyfield
*Indian reserves
**
Morell 2
See also
*
Royal eponyms in Canada
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References
External links
2006 Community Profile: Kings County, Prince Edward Island; Statistics Canada
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