Albuquerque

Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, is a vibrant, sprawling city near the of . Cradled in the Rio Grande Valley beneath the Sandia Mountains, it is by far the largest city in the state, acting as the media, educational, and economic center of New Mexico, as well as the home of the state's only major airport, making it a common entry point into New Mexico.
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  • Type: City with 560,000 residents
  • Description: city and county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States and the largest city in the state
  • Also known as: “Albiuquerque, N.M.”, “Albiuquerque, NM”, “Albuquerque, New Mexico”, “Albuquerque, NM”, “Beeldil Daesenili *”, “Burque”, “Duke City”, “La Villa de Alburquerque”, “Methville”, “The Duke City”, and “Vokekyi Leuwi *”
  • Postal codes: 87101-87116, 87119-87123, 87125, 87131, 87153, 87154, 87158, 87176, 87181, 87184, 87185, 87187, and 87190-87199

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dennis Chavez Federal Building and KiMo Theater.

Government office
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The is a high-rise federal office building and courthouse located at 500 Gold Avenue SW in Downtown Albuquerque, .

Historic building
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The KiMo Theatre is a theatre and historic landmark located in Albuquerque, on the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Fifth Street. It was built in 1927 in the extravagant Pueblo Deco architecture, which is a blend of -style Pueblo Revival…

Historic building
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The is a historic building located in Downtown Albuquerque, . Designed by Henry Trost of the firm of Trost & Trost and built in 1910, it was the first reinforced concrete building in the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barelas and Silver Hill.

Neighborhood
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is an inner-city neighborhood of Albuquerque, , located immediately south of Downtown. It consists of the triangular area bounded by Coal Avenue, the BNSF railroad tracks, and the .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in southeast Albuquerque, , which is significant as one of the oldest developments on the city's East Mesa. Much of the neighborhood is included in the Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Suburb
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Old Town is the historic original town site of Albuquerque, , for the provincial kingdom of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, established in 1706 by New Mexico governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés.

Albuquerque

Latitude
35.0841° or 35° 5′ 3″ north
Longitude
-106.651° or 106° 39′ 4″ west
Population
560,000
Elevation
4,957 feet (1,511 metres)
IATA airport code
ABQ
United Nations Location Code
US ABQ
Open location code
857M38MX+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151364049
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5454711
Wiki­data ID
Q34804
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Albuquerque” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Albuquerque, Nieu-Meksiko”
  • Afrikaans: “Albuquerque”
  • Albanian: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Albanian: “Albuquerque”
  • Amharic: “አልበከርኪ”
  • Arabic: “ألباكركي”
  • Arabic: “ألبكركي”
  • Arabic: “ألبوكرك، نيومكسيكو”
  • Arabic: “ألبوكركه، نيومكسيكو”
  • Arabic: “ألبوكركي، نيومكسيكو”
  • Arabic: “ألبوكركي”
  • Arabic: “ألبوكويركو، نيومكسيكو”
  • Arabic: “ألبوكيركي”
  • Arabic: “ألبيكيرك، نيومكسيكو”
  • Aragonese: “Albuquerque”
  • Armenian: “Ալբուկերկե”
  • Asturian: “Albuquerque”
  • Azerbaijani: “Albukerke”
  • Bambara: “Albuquerque”
  • Basque: “Albuquerque”
  • Belarusian: “Албукерке”
  • Belarusian: “Альбукерке”
  • Bengali: “অ্যালবাকের্কি”
  • Bengali: “আলবাকার্কি”
  • Bosnian: “Albuquerque”
  • Breton: “Albuquerque”
  • Bulgarian: “Албакърки”
  • Bulgarian: “Албъкърки”
  • Catalan: “Albuquerque”
  • Cebuano: “Albuquerque”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئالبوکێرکی”
  • Chechen: “Альбукерке”
  • Cheyenne: “Albuquerque”
  • Chinese: “Albuquerque”
  • Chinese: “阿尔伯克基”
  • Chinese: “阿布奎基”
  • Chinese: “阿爾伯克基”
  • Cornish: “Albuquerque, Meksiko Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Albuquerque”
  • Corsican: “Albuquerque”
  • Croatian: “Albuquerque, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Albuquerque”
  • Czech: “Albuquerque”
  • Dagbani: “Albuquerque”
  • Danish: “Albuquerque”
  • Dutch: “Albuquerque”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الباكركى”
  • Esperanto: “Albukerko”
  • Esperanto: “Albuquerque”
  • Estonian: “Albuquerque”
  • Extremaduran: “Albuquerque”
  • Faroese: “Albuquerque”
  • Finnish: “Albuquerque”
  • French: “Albuquerque”
  • Galician: “Albuquerque, Novo México”
  • Galician: “Albuquerque”
  • Georgian: “ალბუკერკე”
  • Georgian: “ალბურქერქი”
  • German: “Albuquerque”
  • German: “Beeldil Daesenili”
  • German: “New Albuquerque”
  • German: “San Felipe de Neri”
  • German: “San Francisco de Albuquerque”
  • German: “San Francisco Xavier”
  • German: “Vokekyi Leuwi”
  • Gilaki: “آلبؤکرکي”
  • Gilaki: “آلبوکرکی”
  • Greek: “Αλμπουκέρκη”
  • Guarani: “Albuquerque”
  • Gujarati: “આલ્બુકર્ક્યુ”
  • Hebrew: “אלבוקרקי”
  • Hebrew: “אלבקרקי”
  • Hindi: “अल्बुकर्क”
  • Hungarian: “Albuquerque”
  • Icelandic: “Albuquerque”
  • Indonesian: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Indonesian: “Albuquerque”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Duke”
  • Indonesian: “La Villa de Alburquerque”
  • Interlingua: “Albuquerque”
  • Irish: “Albuquerque, Nua-Mheicsiceo”
  • Irish: “Albuquerque”
  • Italian: “Albuquerque”
  • Japanese: “アルバカーキ”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಬುಕರ್ಕ್ (ನ್ಯೂ ಮೆಕ್ಸಿಕೋ)”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಬುಕರ್ಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Албюкуэрокю”
  • Kazakh: “Альбукерке”
  • Kirghiz: “Альбукерке”
  • Komering: “Albuquerque”
  • Korean: “알버커키”
  • Korean: “앨버커키”
  • Kurdish: “Albuquerque”
  • Ladin: “Albuquerque”
  • Ladino: “Albuquerque”
  • Latin: “Alba Quercus”
  • Latvian: “Albukerke”
  • Lithuanian: “Albukerkas”
  • Lithuanian: “Albukerkė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Albuquerque”
  • Macedonian: “Албакерки”
  • Malay: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Malay: “Albuquerque”
  • Maori: “Arapakēreki, Mēhiko Hou”
  • Marathi: “अल्बकर्की”
  • Marathi: “आल्बुकर्की, न्यू मेक्सिको”
  • Marathi: “आल्बुकर्की”
  • Mazanderani: “البوکرکی (نیومکزیکو)”
  • Mazanderani: “البوکرکی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Albuquerque”
  • Mingrelian: “ალბუკერკე”
  • Mingrelian: “ალბუქერქე”
  • Moksha: “Албукэркэ”
  • Mongolian: “Альбукерке”
  • Navajo: “Bee’eldííl Dahsinil”
  • Navajo: “Bee’eldííldahsinil”
  • Navajo: “Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil”
  • Navajo: “Beeʼeldííldahsinil”
  • Navajo: “Beʼeldíila Sinil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Albuquerque”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Albuquerque”
  • Norwegian: “Albuquerque”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Albuquerque”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ælbūrcerrce”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Albuquerque, NM”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Albuquerque”
  • Ossetian: “Альбукерке”
  • Pampanga: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Pampanga: “Albuquerque”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਬੂਕਰਕੀ, ਨਿਊ ਮੈਕਸੀਕੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਬੂਕਰਕੀ”
  • Persian: “آلباکرکی”
  • Persian: “آلبکرکی”
  • Persian: “آلبوکرکی”
  • Persian: “الباکرکی”
  • Persian: “البکرکی”
  • Persian: “البوکرکی”
  • Piemontese: “Albuquerque”
  • Polish: “Albuqueque, Nowy Meksyk”
  • Polish: “Albuquerque”
  • Portuguese: “Albuquerque, Novo México”
  • Portuguese: “Albuquerque”
  • Romanian: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Albuquerque”
  • Russian: “Албукерке”
  • Russian: “Альбукерке”
  • Sardinian: “Albuquerque”
  • Scots: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Scots: “Albuquerque”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Albuquerque”
  • Serbian: “Албукерке”
  • Serbian: “Албукерки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albukerki”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albuquerque”
  • Silesian: “Albuquerque”
  • Sindhi: “ايلبقرقي”
  • Sinhala: “ඇල්බර්කර්කි”
  • Slovak: “Albuquerque”
  • Slovenian: “Albuquerque, Nova Mehika”
  • Slovenian: “Albuquerque”
  • Slovenian: “Beeldil Daesenili”
  • Slovenian: “New Albuquerque”
  • Slovenian: “San Felipe de Neri”
  • Slovenian: “San Francisco de Albuquerque”
  • Slovenian: “San Francisco Xavier”
  • Slovenian: “Vokekyi Leuwi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “البوکرکی”
  • Spanish: “Albuquerque (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “Albuquerque”
  • Spanish: “Alburquerque”
  • Swahili: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Swahili: “Albuquerque”
  • Swedish: “Albuquerque”
  • Tagalog: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Tagalog: “Albuquerque”
  • Tamil: “ஆல்புகெர்க்கி”
  • Tatar: “Әлбукерке”
  • Telugu: “అల్బుకెర్కీ”
  • Thai: “อัลบูเคอร์คี”
  • Thai: “แอลบูเคอร์คี”
  • Turkish: “Albuquerque”
  • Twi: “Albukɛɛki”
  • Twi: “Albuquerque”
  • Uighur: “Albukwér kwé”
  • Uighur: “ئالبۇكۋېر كۋې”
  • Ukrainian: “Альбукерке”
  • Urdu: “آلبوکرک، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “آلبوکرک”
  • Urdu: “البوکرکی، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Uzbek: “Albukerke”
  • Venetian: “Albuquerque”
  • Veps: “Al’bukerke”
  • Vietnamese: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Albuquerque”
  • Vlax Romani: “Albuquerque, Nevo Mexiko”
  • Volapük: “Albuquerque”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Albuquerque”
  • Welsh: “Albuquerque, Mecsico Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Albuquerque, NM”
  • Welsh: “Albuquerque”
  • Western Frisian: “Albuquerque, Nij-Meksiko”
  • Western Frisian: “Albuquerque”
  • Western Mari: “Альбукерке”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿尔伯克基（新墨西哥州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿尔伯克基”
  • Yakut: “Альбукерке”
  • Yoruba: “Albuquerque”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿布奎基”
  • “ABQ”
  • “Albuquerque”
  • “Albuquerque, New Mexico”

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