Phoenix
Phoenix is a ghost town in the Boundary Country of British Columbia, Canada, 11 km east of Greenwood. Once called the "highest city in Canada" by its citizens it was a booming copper mining community from the late 1890s until 1919.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of 1,428 metres (4,685 feet)
- …is also known as “Phoenix, British Columbia”
- Description: human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eholt and Greenwood.
Eholt
Locality
Eholt is in the Boundary Country region of south central British Columbia. Eholt is situated 7 km northeast of Phoenix.
Greenwood
Greenwood, population 665, is a small city in the West Kootenays, of British Columbia, Canada.
Phoenix
- Category: human settlement
- Location
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Latitude
49.09979° or 49° 5′ 59″ north
Longitude
-118.58562° or 118° 35′ 8″ west
Open location code
85X33CX7+WQ
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Phoenix” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Phoenix, British Columbia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فينيكس”
- French: “Phoenix (Colombie-Britannique)”
- French: “Phoenix”
- Irish: “Phoenix”
- Portuguese: “Phoenix”
- Spanish: “Phoenix”
- Urdu: “فینکس، برٹش کولمبیا”
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