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Nickel Belt is an informal nickname for the Sudbury region in Northern Ontario, because of the belt of nickel ore deposits found in the area. It is also one of two federal electoral districts serving the city.

Nickel Belt has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1953.

It consists of:

* the part of the Territorial District of Timiskaming lying west of the townships of Fallon and Cleaver;

* the Territorial District of Sudbury, excluding:

** the part lying west of and including the townships of Shenango, Lemoine, Carty, Pinogami, Biggs, Rollo, Swayze, Cunningham, Blamey, Shipley, Singapore, Burr and Edighoffer;

** the part lying south and west of a line and including the townships of Acheson, Venturi and Ermatinger and Totten, west of and excluding the City of Greater Sudbury, and west of and including the Township of Roosevelt;

* the northeast part of the City of Greater Sudbury;

* the Town of Killarney (in the territorial district of Manitoulin and Parry Sound);

* the unorganized territory lying on the north shore of Georgian Bay and east of the town of Killarney in the Territorial District of Manitoulin; and

* the Town of West Nipissing (in the Territorial District of Nipissing).