Mercoal
Mercoal, a former coal mining town, is located in the Yellowhead County of western Alberta, Canada. It was one of several communities along the historic Coal Branch segment of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which included Embarras, Robb, Coalspur, Coal Valley, Cadomin, Luscar, and Mountain Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Mercoal, Alberta”
Mercoal
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Yellowhead County, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
53.16344° or 53° 9′ 48″ northLongitude
-117.09355° or 117° 5′ 37″ westElevation
1,355 metres (4,446 feet)Open location code
95545W74+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 51970678OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Tahitian—“Mercoal” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Mercoal”
- Corsican: “Mercoal”
- Danish: “Mercoal”
- Dutch: “Mercoal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميركوال”
- French: “Mercoal”
- German: “Mercoal”
- Indonesian: “Mercoal”
- Irish: “Mercoal”
- Italian: “Mercoal”
- Low German: “Mercoal”
- Portuguese: “Mercoal”
- Romanian: “Mercoal”
- Spanish: “Mercoal”
- Swedish: “Mercoal”
- Tahitian: “Mercoal”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mercoal”. Photo: JakubFrys, CC BY-SA 4.0.