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Fort Defiance

Fort Defiance is a census-designated place in , , United States. It is also located within the . The population was 3,624 at the 2010 census.
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  • Type: Town with 3,620 residents
  • Description: census designated place in Apache County, Arizona, United States
  • Also known as: “Fort Defiance, Arizona”, “Fort Defiance, AZ”, “Ft Defiance”, “Ft. Defiance”, “Ft. Defiance, Arizona”, and “Ft. Defiance, AZ”
  • Postal code: 86504
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Navajo Veterans Cemetery.

Cemetery
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is situated 2 miles southeast of Fort Defiance.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Window Rock and St. Michaels.

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is a town of 2,500 people in Apache County, in the state of in the United States of America. It is significant beyond its size as the administrative center of , the country's largest Indian reservation and an important tourist destination.

Locality
is a chapter of the and a census-designated place in , , United States. The Navajo Nation Government Campus is located within the chapter at Window Rock. The population was 1,443 at the 2010 census. is situated 6 miles south of Fort Defiance.

Fort Defiance

Latitude
35.74446° or 35° 44′ 40″ north
Longitude
-109.07648° or 109° 4′ 35″ west
Population
3,620
Elevation
6,834 feet (2,083 metres)
Open location code
857GPWVF+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151351237
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5295093
Wiki­data ID
Q1026027
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“Fort Defiance” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Fort Defiance”
  • Catalan: “Fort Defiance”
  • Cebuano: “Fort Defiance”
  • Chechen: “Форт-Дифаенс”
  • Chinese: “Fort Defiance”
  • Chinese: “迪法恩斯堡”
  • Croatian: “Fort Defiance, Arizona”
  • Croatian: “Fort Defiance”
  • Czech: “Fort Defiance”
  • Danish: “Fort Defiance”
  • Dutch: “Fort Defiance”
  • French: “Fort Defiance”
  • German: “Fort Defiance”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرت دیفاینس (آريزؤنا)”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرت دیفاینس”
  • Irish: “Fort Defiance”
  • Italian: “Fort Defiance”
  • Japanese: “フォートディファイアンス”
  • Ladin: “Fort Defiance”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fort Defiance”
  • Navajo: “Tséhootsooí”
  • Newari: “फर्ट डिफायन्स (एरिजोना)”
  • Newari: “फर्ट डिफायन्स, एरिजोना”
  • Newari: “फर्ट डिफायन्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Defiance”
  • Norwegian: “Fort Defiance”
  • Persian: “فورت دفاینس”
  • Polish: “Fort Defiance”
  • Portuguese: “Fort Defiance”
  • Serbian: “Форт Дефајанс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Defiance, Arizona”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Defiance”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورت دفاینس”
  • Spanish: “Fort Defiance”
  • Tatar: “Форт-Дифаенс”
  • Turkish: “Fort Defiance”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Діфаєнс”
  • Volapük: “Fort Defiance”

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