Sultan is an unincorporated community in the Unorganized North Part of

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in northeastern

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, Canada. The local economy is based primarily on hunting and related

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. In the past the logging industry formed the mainstay of the economy. Children from Sultan attend school in Chapleau, away. The primary access to Sultan by car is by Highway 667 and Sultan Industrial Road, an unpaved logging road connecting to Highway 144.

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'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 and consists of only a stop sign. Sultan was formerly administered by a

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, which was dissolved in 2008. The community, which holds the status of

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census data, had a reported population of 49 in the

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.Statistics Canada. 2012. Sultan, Ontario (Code 350033) and Ontario (Code 35) (table). Census Profile. 2011 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-316-XWE. Ottawa. Released October 24, 2012. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E (accessed April 22, 2013).

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

, 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.

References

* * Communities in Sudbury District Designated places in Ontario {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub