Editing Cumberland County, Nova Scotia (section)

==Geography==
{{stack|[[File:Shoreview.jpg|thumb|left|Cumberland county landscape at [[Fraserville, Nova Scotia|Fraserville]] with [[Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia|Spencers Island]] in background]]}}

The county has a total area of {{convert|4,271.23|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}.

Cumberland County is rich in natural resources with extensive forest land supporting lumber mills and pulp contractors.  It has many mineral resources, including 2 operating salt mines.  Until the 1970s it also had several coal mines which extracted coal from seams that run from [[Joggins, Nova Scotia|Joggins]] to [[River Hebert, Nova Scotia|River Hebert]] and on to [[Athol, Nova Scotia|Athol]] and [[Springhill, Nova Scotia|Springhill]].

Agriculture is concentrated on wild [[blueberry]] harvesting throughout the [[Cobequid Hills]], as well as mixed farms located in the [[Tantramar Marshes]] region, the [[Northumberland Strait]] coastal plain, and the [[Wentworth Valley]].

The northwestern edge of Cumberland County forms part of the [[Isthmus of Chignecto]], the natural land bridge connecting the [[Nova Scotia peninsula]] to [[North America]].  As such, the county hosts several important transportation corridors, including [[Nova Scotia Highway 104|Highway 104]] (the [[Trans-Canada Highway]]) and [[Canadian National Railway|CN Rail]]'s Halifax-Montreal railway line. The county line bordering New Brunswick is around 30 kilometres long (18.5 miles). Cumberland is the only county in Nova Scotia that borders another province.

Two towns are located in Cumberland County: [[Amherst, Nova Scotia|Amherst]] and [[Oxford, Nova Scotia|Oxford]]. [[Parrsboro]] and [[Springhill, Nova Scotia|Springhill]] both have populations exceeding 1000 people, but lack their own town governments.

===Lakes===
*[[Slade Lake]]