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The World Trade Center site, often referred to as "Ground Zero" or "the Pile" immediately after the September 11 attacks, is a 14.6-acre area in in .
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: grounds of the World Trade Center in New York City
  • Also known as: “Ground Zero” and “Ground Zero, NYC, New York”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Freedom Tower and National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Photo: Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0.
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and as the , is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in , New York City. is situated 550 feet north of World Trade Center site.

Memorial
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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in , created for remembering the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 which killed 2,977 people, as well as the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing which killed six.

Photo: Aude, Public domain.
The is a 792-foot-tall residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the neighborhood of in . is situated 1,200 feet east of World Trade Center site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Battery Park City and TriBeCa.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood and planned community at the southern tip of in . The neighborhood is situated along the waterfront, and separated the and by the West Side Highway.

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A former industrial district in Lower , , short for "Triangle Below Canal Street", has transformed from artist community to upscale residential district in the 21st century.

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The comprises the southern tip of , with the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and Barclay Street on the north.

World Trade Center site

Latitude
40.71159° or 40° 42′ 42″ north
Longitude
-74.01247° or 74° 0′ 45″ west
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Open location code
87G7PX6Q+J2
Geo­Names ID
6619209
Wiki­data ID
Q1692282
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“World Trade Center site” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “موقع مركز التجارة العالمي”
  • Catalan: “lloc del World Trade Center”
  • Chinese: “世界貿易中心建築群”
  • Chinese: “世界貿易中心遺址”
  • Chinese: “世貿中心遺址”
  • Chinese: “世貿遺址”
  • Chinese: “世贸中心遗址”
  • Chinese: “新世界貿易中心位址”
  • Chinese: “歸零地”
  • Czech: “Ground Zero”
  • Dutch: “Ground zero”
  • Dutch: “World Trade Center site”
  • Dutch: “World Trade Center”
  • French: “Site du World Trade Center”
  • German: “Ground Zero”
  • German: “World Trade Center Site”
  • Greek: “Τοποθεσία του Παγκόσμιου Κέντρου Εμπορίου”
  • Indonesian: “Lahan World Trade Center”
  • Italian: “Sito del World Trade Center”
  • Japanese: “ワールド・トレード・センター・サイト”
  • Japanese: “ワールドトレードセンターサイト”
  • Japanese: “ワールドトレードセンター跡地”
  • Japanese: “世界貿易センター跡地”
  • Korean: “그라운드 제로”
  • Korean: “세계 무역 센터 부지”
  • Malay: “Tapak World Trade Center”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ground Zero”
  • Norwegian: “Ground Zero”
  • Portuguese: “Ground Zero”
  • Romanian: “situl World Trade Center”
  • Russian: “Граунд-Зиро (Всемирный торговый центр)”
  • Russian: “Граунд-Зиро”
  • Slovenian: “Ground Zero”
  • Slovenian: “World Trade Center site”
  • Spanish: “Sitio del World Trade Center”
  • Thai: “พื้นที่เวิลด์เทรดเซ็นเตอร์”
  • Ukrainian: “Ground Zero”
  • Ukrainian: “World Trade Center site”
  • Ukrainian: “Граунд-Зіро”
  • Vietnamese: “Ground Zero”

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