White Sands
White Sands is a census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. It consists of the main residential area on the White Sands Missile Range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,560 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “White Sands, New Mexico” and “White Sands, NM”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include White Sands Missile Range.
White Sands Missile Range
Hamlet
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White Sands Missile Range is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio.
White Sands
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.38137° or 32° 22′ 53″ northLongitude
-106.47899° or 106° 28′ 44″ westPopulation
1,560Elevation
4,239 feet (1,292 metres)IATA airport code
WSDUnited Nations Location Code
US WSDOpen location code
854M9GJC+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 151323471OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5497914Wikidata ID
Q2354791
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“White Sands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وايت ساندس”
- Catalan: “White Sands”
- Cebuano: “White Sands”
- Chechen: “Вайт-Сандс”
- Chinese: “White Sands”
- Chinese: “懷特桑茲”
- Chinese: “白沙”
- Dutch: “White Sands”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وايت ساندس”
- French: “White Sands”
- German: “White Sands”
- Gilaki: “وایت سندز”
- Irish: “White Sands”
- Italian: “White Sands”
- Japanese: “ホワイトサンズ”
- Kazakh: “Уайт Сэндс”
- Kirghiz: “Уайт Сэндс”
- Ladin: “White Sands”
- Min Nan Chinese: “White Sands”
- Navajo: “Séí Dzígaii”
- Persian: “وایت سندز”
- Polish: “White Sands”
- Portuguese: “White Sands”
- Russian: “Уайт-Сэндс”
- Serbian: “Вајт Сандс (Нови Мексико)”
- Serbian: “Вајт Сандс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “White Sands, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “White Sands”
- South Azerbaijani: “وایت سندز، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “White Sands”
- Swedish: “White Sands, New Mexico”
- Swedish: “White Sands”
- Tatar: “Вайт-Сандс”
- Ukrainian: “Вайт-Сандс”
- Volapük: “White Sands”
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