Hants
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Hants may refer to:
- HampshireHampshireHampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...
, a county in England- Mid Hants Watercress Railway, in Hampshire
- Hants County, Nova ScotiaHants County, Nova ScotiaHants County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia which was the home of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Alden Nowlan and Noel Doiron. The county of Hants was created June 17, 1781, and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport...
, a Canadian county named for the English one- East Hants, Nova ScotiaEast Hants, Nova ScotiaEast Hants is a municipal district in Hants County, Nova Scotia.With its administrative seat in Milford Station, the district occupies the eastern half of Hants County from the Minas Basin to the boundary with Halifax County, sharing this boundary with the West Hants municipal district...
, a municipal district - West Hants, Nova ScotiaWest Hants, Nova ScotiaWest Hants is a municipal district in Hants County, Nova Scotia.It occupies the western half of Hants County, running from the Minas Basin to the boundary with Halifax County, sharing this boundary with the East Hants municipal district....
, a municipal district - Hantsport, Nova ScotiaHantsport, Nova ScotiaHantsport is a rural Canadian town and seaport located in the western part of Hants County, Nova Scotia. Hantsport is located just south of the county boundary with Kings County, and sits on the west bank of the Avon River in a tidal estuary.The town is most best known for its history of...
, the town and port - Electoral districtsElectoral district (Canada)An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...
(ridings) in the county include:- HantsHants (electoral district)Hants was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1925. It was created in the British North America Act of 1867, and abolished in 1924 when it was merged into Hants—Kings riding...
- Kings—HantsKings—HantsKings—Hants is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968...
- Halifax—East HantsHalifax—East HantsHalifax—East Hants was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. The riding was created in 1966 from parts of Colchester—Hants riding...
- Colchester—HantsColchester—HantsColchester—Hants was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1968....
- Hants
- East Hants, Nova Scotia
- Hant's Harbour, Newfoundland and LabradorHant's Harbour, Newfoundland and LabradorThe community of Hant's Harbour is an incorporated town having a population of 401 located on the east side of Trinity Bay on the Bay de Verde Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada.-Geography:...
, a Canadian town