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Albany

Albany

Albany is the capital of . Albany is an interesting showcase of several centuries' worth of architectural styles, including the modernistic Empire State Plaza.
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  • Type: City with 99,200 residents
  • Description: capital city of the State of New York, United States, and seat of Albany County
  • Also known as: “Albany, New York”, “Albany, NY”, “Aurania”, “Beverswyck”, “Beverwick”, “Beverwyck”, “Ches-co-don-ta”, “Fort Orange”, “Fort Oranje”, “Fuyck”, “Ga-isch-ti-nic”, “Gaasch-tinick”, “Gaishtinic”, “Kaishtinic”, “New Orange”, “Pem-pot-a-wut-hut”, “Pempotuwuthut”, “Rensselaerwyck”, “Scheneghtada”, “Shaw-na-taw-ty”, “Ska-neh-ta-de”, “Skaghnetade”, “Skaneghtada”, “Skenectadea”, “William Stadt”, and “Williamstadt”
  • Postal codes: 12201-12212, 12214, 12220, 12222-12250, 12252, 12255-12257, 12260, 12261, and 12288

Places of Interest

Highlights include MVP Arena and Fort Orange.

Stadium
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is an indoor arena located in Albany, New York. It is configurable and can accommodate from 6,000 to 17,500 people, with a maximum seating capacity of 15,500 for sporting events.

Archaeological site
was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city and state capital Albany, developed near this site.

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is a Cannon-class destroyer escort that served in the United States Navy and later in the Hellenic Navy. Following service during World War II, the ship was transferred to Greece and renamed Aetos.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rensselaer and West Albany.

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is a city in , , United States, and is located on the east side of the , opposite Albany and on the western border of County.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the town of , , , United States. Parts of the neighboring city of Albany around Watervliet Avenue Extension and Industrial Park Road are also considered part of and include the majority of the Rail Yard.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in Albany, located in a ravine north of Downtown Albany. Capitol Hill to the south and to the north flank the ravine.

Albany

Latitude
42.6512° or 42° 39′ 4″ north
Longitude
-73.755° or 73° 45′ 18″ west
Population
99,200
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
IATA airport code
ALB
United Nations Location Code
US ALB
Open location code
87J8M62W+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316976705
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5106834
Wiki­data ID
Q24861
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Albany” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Albany, New York”
  • Afrikaans: “Albany”
  • Albanian: “Albany”
  • Amharic: “አልበኒ”
  • Arabic: “ألباني”
  • Arabic: “الباني”
  • Aragonese: “Albany”
  • Armenian: “Օլբանի”
  • Asturian: “Albany, Nueva York”
  • Asturian: “Albany”
  • Azerbaijani: “Olbani”
  • Balinese: “Albany, New York”
  • Balinese: “Albany”
  • Bashkir: “Олбани”
  • Basque: “Albany”
  • Belarusian: “Олбані”
  • Bengali: “অলবানি, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bengali: “অলবানি”
  • Bislama: “Albany, Niu York”
  • Bislama: “Albany”
  • Bosnian: “Albany”
  • Breton: “Albany”
  • Bulgarian: “Олбани”
  • Catalan: “Albany (Nova York)”
  • Catalan: “Albany”
  • Cebuano: “Albany”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئالبانی، نیویۆرک”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئالبانی”
  • Chechen: “Олбани”
  • Chinese: “Albany”
  • Chinese: “奥尔巴尼 / 阿伯尼”
  • Chinese: “奥尔巴尼”
  • Chinese: “奧巴尼”
  • Chinese: “奧爾巴尼”
  • Chinese: “柯巴利”
  • Chinese: “阿伯尼”
  • Chinese: “阿爾巴尼”
  • Chinese: “雅賓利”
  • Cornish: “Albany, Evrek Nowydh”
  • Croatian: “Albany, New York”
  • Czech: “Albany”
  • Danish: “Albany”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Albany, New York”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Albany”
  • Dutch: “Albany”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البانى, نيويورك”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البانى”
  • Esperanto: “Albany”
  • Estonian: “Albany”
  • Faroese: “Albany”
  • Finnish: “Albany, New York”
  • Finnish: “Albany”
  • French: “Albany (New York)”
  • French: “Albany”
  • Galician: “Albany, Nova York”
  • Galician: “Albany”
  • Georgian: “ალბანი”
  • Georgian: “ოლბანი”
  • German: “Albany (New York)”
  • German: “Albany”
  • Gilaki: “آلباني (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “آلباني”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌴𐌹, 𐌽𐌹𐌿 𐌹𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Άλμπανι”
  • Greek: “Όλμπανι, Νέα Υόρκη”
  • Greek: “Όλμπανι”
  • Gujarati: “આલ્બની”
  • Haitian: “Albany, New York”
  • Haitian: “Albany”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Alapani”
  • Hebrew: “אולבני”
  • Hindi: “अल्बानी”
  • Hungarian: “Albany”
  • Icelandic: “Albany”
  • Ido: “Albany, Nova-York”
  • Ido: “Albany”
  • Iloko: “Albany, New York”
  • Iloko: “Albany”
  • Indonesian: “Albany, New York”
  • Indonesian: “Albany”
  • Interlingua: “Albany”
  • Interlingue: “Albany”
  • Irish: “Albany, Nua-Eabhrac”
  • Irish: “Albany”
  • Italian: “Albany”
  • Japanese: “オールバニ (ニューヨーク)”
  • Japanese: “オールバニ”
  • Japanese: “オールバニ市”
  • Kabyle: “Albany”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಬನಿ”
  • Kirghiz: “Олбани”
  • Korean: “올버니”
  • Kurdish: “Albany, New York”
  • Kurdish: “Albany”
  • Ladin: “Albany”
  • Latin: “Albania”
  • Latvian: “Olbani”
  • Ligurian: “Albany”
  • Lithuanian: “Olbanis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Albany”
  • Macedonian: “Олбани”
  • Malagasy: “Albany, New York”
  • Malagasy: “Albany”
  • Malay: “Albany, New York”
  • Malay: “Albany”
  • Malayalam: “ആൽബെനി, ന്യൂയോർക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “ആൽബെനി”
  • Maltese: “Albany”
  • Marathi: “आल्बनी”
  • Mazanderani: “آلبانی (نیویورک)”
  • Mazanderani: “آلبانی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Albany”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ألباني”
  • Newari: “एल्बानी, न्यु यर्क”
  • Newari: “एल्बानी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Albany”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Albany i New York”
  • Norwegian: “Albany”
  • Nyanja: “Albany”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Albany, Nòva York”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Albany”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ælbanige on Nīwe Eoforwīc”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Albany on Nīwum Eoforwīce”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Albany”
  • Ossetian: “Олбани”
  • Pali: “अल्बानी”
  • Pampanga: “Albany, New York”
  • Pampanga: “Albany”
  • Papiamento: “Albany”
  • Pedi: “Albany”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Albany, Nei Yarrick”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Albany”
  • Persian: “آلبانی، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “آلبانی”
  • Piemontese: “Albany”
  • Polish: “Albany”
  • Portuguese: “Albany, Nova Iorque”
  • Portuguese: “Albany, Nova York”
  • Portuguese: “Albany”
  • Quechua: “Albany”
  • Romanian: “Albany, New York”
  • Romanian: “Albany”
  • Russian: “Олбани (Нью-Йорк)”
  • Russian: “Олбани”
  • Samogitian: “Olbanis”
  • Sanskrit: “अल्बानी, न्यू यार्क्”
  • Sanskrit: “अल्बानी”
  • Sardinian: “Albany”
  • Scots: “Albany, New York”
  • Scots: “Albany”
  • Scots: “Ceety o Albany”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Albany, Eabhraig Nuadh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Albany”
  • Serbian: “Олбани”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albany, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albany”
  • Sicilian: “Albany”
  • Silesian: “Albany”
  • Sinhala: “අල්බේනි”
  • Slovak: “Albany”
  • Slovenian: “Albany (New York)”
  • Slovenian: “Albany, New York”
  • Slovenian: “Albany, NY”
  • Slovenian: “Albany”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلبانی، نیویورک”
  • Southern Sotho: “Albany”
  • Spanish: “Albany (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Albany”
  • Swahili: “Albany, New York”
  • Swahili: “Albany”
  • Swati: “Albany”
  • Swedish: “Albany, New York”
  • Swedish: “Albany”
  • Tagalog: “Albany, New York”
  • Tagalog: “Albany”
  • Tajik: “Албания,Ню-Йорк”
  • Tajik: “Албания”
  • Talysh: “Olbani”
  • Tamil: “ஆல்பெனி”
  • Tatar: “Олбани”
  • Telugu: “అల్బాని”
  • Thai: “ออลบานี”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Albany, New York”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Albany”
  • Tumbuka: “Albany”
  • Turkish: “Albany, New York”
  • Turkish: “Albany”
  • Ukrainian: “Олбані”
  • Urdu: “البانی، نیو یارک”
  • Venetian: “Albany”
  • Vietnamese: “Albany, New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Albany”
  • Vietnamese: “Thủ phủ Albany”
  • Vietnamese: “Thủ phủ tiểu bang New York”
  • Vlax Romani: “Albany”
  • Volapük: “Albany”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Albany, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Albany”
  • Welsh: “Albany, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Albany”
  • Western Frisian: “Albany”
  • Western Mari: “Олбани”
  • Western Panjabi: “البنی”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥尔巴尼”
  • Xhosa: “Albany”
  • Yiddish: “אלבאני”
  • Yue Chinese: “柯巴利”
  • Zulu: “Albany”
  • “Albany”
  • “Olbanis”

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