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  • Type: City with 125,000 residents
  • Description: city in Taylor and Jones counties in Texas, United States, that is the county seat of Taylor County
  • Also known as: “Abilene, Texas” and “Abilene, TX”
  • Postal codes: 79601-79606, 79608, and 79697-79699

Places of Interest

Highlights include Paramount Theatre and Abilene High School.

Theater building
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The is located in downtown Abilene, Texas at 352 Cypress Street. The Paramount was built in 1930 by H. O. Wooten, adjacent to his Hotel Wooten.

School
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is a public high school located in Abilene, Texas. AHS is classified as a Division 5A school and is part of the Abilene Independent School District.

Abilene

Latitude
32.4465° or 32° 26′ 47″ north
Longitude
-99.7476° or 99° 44′ 51″ west
Population
125,000
Elevation
1,719 feet (524 metres)
IATA airport code
ABI
United Nations Location Code
US ABI
Open location code
8642C7W2+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151473772
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4669635
Wiki­data ID
Q128295
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Abilene” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أبيلين (تكساس)”
  • Arabic: “أبيلين، تكساس”
  • Arabic: “أبيلين”
  • Armenian: “Աբիլին”
  • Asturian: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Asturian: “Abilene”
  • Azerbaijani: “Abilin”
  • Basque: “Abilene”
  • Belarusian: “Абілін”
  • Bengali: “আবিলেন”
  • Bulgarian: “Абилийн”
  • Bulgarian: “Абълийн”
  • Catalan: “Abilene”
  • Cebuano: “Abilene”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئابیڵین”
  • Chechen: “Абилин”
  • Chinese: “阿比林”
  • Croatian: “Abilene, Teksas”
  • Croatian: “Abilene”
  • Czech: “Abilene”
  • Danish: “Abilene”
  • Dutch: “Abilene”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابيلين”
  • Esperanto: “Abilene”
  • Estonian: “Abilene”
  • Finnish: “Abilene”
  • French: “Abilene”
  • Galician: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Galician: “Abilene”
  • Georgian: “აბილინი”
  • German: “Abilene”
  • Gilaki: “أبيلين”
  • Greek: “Αμπιλέν”
  • Greek: “Άμπιλεν”
  • Gujarati: “એબીલેન”
  • Haitian: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Haitian: “Abilene”
  • Hebrew: “אבילין”
  • Hindi: “अबीलिन, टेक्सस”
  • Hindi: “अबीलिन”
  • Hungarian: “Abilene”
  • Ido: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Ido: “Abilene”
  • Inari Sami: “Abilene”
  • Indonesian: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Indonesian: “Abilene”
  • Irish: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Irish: “Abilene”
  • Italian: “Abilene”
  • Japanese: “アビリーン”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬಿಲೀನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Абилин”
  • Korean: “애빌린”
  • Ladin: “Abilene”
  • Latvian: “Abilīna”
  • Lithuanian: “Abilenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Abilinas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Abilene”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Abilene”
  • Macedonian: “Абилин”
  • Malagasy: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Malagasy: “Abilene”
  • Malay: “Abilene”
  • Marathi: “अबीलन”
  • Northern Sami: “Abilene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abilene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abilene i Texas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abilene”
  • Norwegian: “Abilene”
  • Ossetian: “Абилин”
  • Persian: “ابیلین، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “ابیلین”
  • Polish: “Abilene”
  • Portuguese: “Abilene”
  • Romanian: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Romanian: “Abilene”
  • Russian: “Абилин”
  • Scots: “Abilene”
  • Serbian: “Абилин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abilene”
  • Silesian: “Abilene”
  • Sinhala: “අබයිලීන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Abilene”
  • Slovak: “Abilene”
  • Slovenian: “Abilene”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ابیلین، تکزاس”
  • Spanish: “Abilene (Texas)”
  • Spanish: “Abilene”
  • Swahili: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Swahili: “Abilene”
  • Swedish: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Swedish: “Abilene”
  • Tagalog: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Tagalog: “Abilene”
  • Talysh: “Abilin”
  • Tamil: “அபிலேனே”
  • Tatar: “Әбилин”
  • Telugu: “అబిలిన్”
  • Thai: “อาบีลีน”
  • Turkish: “Abilene, Teksas”
  • Turkish: “Abilene”
  • Ukrainian: “Абілін”
  • Urdu: “ابیلین، ٹیکساس”
  • Urdu: “ابیلین”
  • Uzbek: “Abilene”
  • Venetian: “Abilene”
  • Vietnamese: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Abilene”
  • Volapük: “Abilene”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Abilene, Texas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Abilene”
  • Welsh: “Abilene, Texas”
  • Welsh: “Abilene”
  • Western Frisian: “Abilene”
  • Western Panjabi: “ابیلین”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿比林 (得克萨斯州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿比林（得克萨斯州）”
  • Yakut: “Абилин”
  • “Abilene”

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