DesMoines
Des Moines is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 32,888 as of the 2020 census. The city is located on the east shore of Puget Sound, near the center of the Seattle metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 32,900 residents
- Description: city in King County, Washington, USA
- Also known as: “Des Moines”, “Des Moines, WA”, and “Des Moines, Washington”
- Neighbors: Federal Way
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Rainier High School and Kent Des Moines station.
Mount Rainier High School
School
Photo: Jwinters, Public domain.
Mount Rainier High School is a secondary school in Des Moines, Washington, United States; named for Mount Rainier which can be seen quite well from the school on a clear day.
Kent Des Moines station
Railway station
Kent Des Moines station is a station on the 1 Line, part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system. It is located in western Kent, Washington, near Highline College and the intersection of State Route 99 and State Route 516.
Federal Detention Center, SeaTac
Prison
Photo: SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Federal Detention Center, SeaTac is a federal prison in SeaTac, Washington, near the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. Federal Detention Center, SeaTac is situated 1½ miles north of DesMoines.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Normandy Park and SeaTac.
Normandy Park
Village
Normandy Park is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 6,771 at the 2020 census. Normandy Park is situated 3 miles northwest of DesMoines.
SeaTac
Photo: Atomic Taco, CC BY-SA 2.0.
SeaTac is a city in southern King County. Its name is a portmanteau of its larger neighbors: Seattle to the north, and Tacoma to the south.
Kent
Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kent is the fourth largest city in King County in the Puget Sound region of Washington State, between Seattle and Tacoma.
DesMoines
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.39883° or 47° 23′ 56″ northLongitude
-122.30991° or 122° 18′ 36″ westPopulation
32,900Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DSNOpen location code
84VV9MXR+G2OpenStreetMap ID
node 150946405OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“DesMoines” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديس موينس”
- Basque: “Des Moines”
- Bulgarian: “Де Мойн”
- Catalan: “Des Moines”
- Cebuano: “Des Moines”
- Chechen: “Де-Мойн”
- Chinese: “Des Moines”
- Chinese: “得梅因”
- Croatian: “Des Moines”
- Czech: “Des Moines”
- Danish: “Des Moines”
- Dutch: “Des Moines”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديس موينس”
- French: “Des Moines”
- German: “Des Moines (Washington)”
- German: “Des Moines”
- Gilaki: “دس مؤینز”
- Hungarian: “Des Moines”
- Irish: “Des Moines”
- Italian: “Des Moines”
- Japanese: “デ・モイン (ワシントン州)”
- Japanese: “デ・モイン”
- Japanese: “デモイン (ワシントン州)”
- Japanese: “デモイン”
- Korean: “디모인스”
- Ladin: “Des Moines”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Des Moines”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Des Moines”
- Norwegian: “Des Moines”
- Persian: “دس موینز، واشینگتن”
- Persian: “دی موینز”
- Polish: “Des Moines”
- Portuguese: “Des Moines”
- Russian: “Де-Мойн (Вашингтон)”
- Russian: “Де-Мойн”
- Serbian: “Де Мојнс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Des Moines, Washington”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Des Moines”
- Slovak: “Des Moines”
- South Azerbaijani: “دز موینز، واشینقتون”
- Spanish: “Des Moines (Washington)”
- Spanish: “Des Moines”
- Tatar: “Де-Мойн (Вашингтон)”
- Tatar: “Де-Мойн”
- Turkish: “Des Moines, Washington”
- Turkish: “Des Moines”
- Ukrainian: “Де-Мойн”
- Uzbek: “Des Moines”
- Vietnamese: “Des Moines, Washington”
- Vietnamese: “Des Moines”
- Volapük: “Des Moines”
- Waray (Philippines): “Des Moines, Washington”
- Waray (Philippines): “Des Moines”
- Welsh: “Des Moines, Washington”
- Welsh: “Des Moines”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Rainier Pool and Kiddie Park.
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