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Alpena

Alpena

Alpena is the only city in and the county seat of , United States. The population was 10,197 at the 2020 census, making it the third most populated city in the region, after and .
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  • Type: City with 10,600 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Alpena County, Michigan, United States
  • Also known as: “Alpena, MI” and “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Postal code: 49707

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alpena Light and Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan.

Lighthouse
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The , also known as the Thunder Bay River Lighthouse or Alpena Breakwater Light, is a lighthouse on near Alpena, . Standing on the north breakwater of Alpena Harbor, the light marks the entrance to the from .

Museum
The is a community museum serving and surrounding counties in the U.S. state of . Alpena is a port city on .

Shopping center
is an abandoned enclosed shopping mall located in Alpena, Michigan, United States. It was the only enclosed mall in . Although the mall itself is closed, its anchor tenants are Gordon Food Service and Dunham's Sports continue to operate.

Alpena

Latitude
45.0617° or 45° 3′ 42″ north
Longitude
-83.4328° or 83° 25′ 58″ west
Population
10,600
Elevation
591 feet (180 metres)
IATA airport code
APN
United Nations Location Code
US APN
Open location code
86QR3H68+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154029901
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4984075
Wiki­data ID
Q1012455
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Alpena” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Afrikaans: “Alpena”
  • Arabic: “ألبينا”
  • Basque: “Alpena”
  • Belarusian: “Алпіна”
  • Catalan: “Alpena”
  • Cebuano: “Alpena”
  • Chechen: “Алпина”
  • Chinese: “Alpena”
  • Chinese: “阿尔皮纳”
  • Chinese: “阿爾皮納”
  • Czech: “Alpena”
  • Danish: “Alpena”
  • Dutch: “Alpena”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البينا”
  • Esperanto: “Alpena”
  • French: “Alpena”
  • German: “Alpena”
  • Gilaki: “آلپنا (ميشيگان)”
  • Gilaki: “آلپنا”
  • Hebrew: “אלפינה”
  • Hungarian: “Alpena”
  • Irish: “Alpena”
  • Italian: “Alpena”
  • Japanese: “アルピーナ”
  • Kazakh: “Alpena”
  • Kazakh: “Алпена”
  • Kazakh: “الپەنا”
  • Kirghiz: “Алпена”
  • Korean: “앨피너”
  • Ladin: “Alpena”
  • Malagasy: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Malagasy: “Alpena”
  • Mazanderani: “آلپنا (میشیگان)”
  • Mazanderani: “آلپنا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alpena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alpena”
  • Persian: “آلپنا، میشیگان”
  • Persian: “آلپنا”
  • Polish: “Alpena”
  • Portuguese: “Alpena”
  • Romanian: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Romanian: “Alpena”
  • Russian: “Алпина”
  • Serbian: “Алпина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alpena”
  • Slovak: “Alpena”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلپنا، میشیقان”
  • Spanish: “Alpena (Míchigan)”
  • Spanish: “Alpena”
  • Swahili: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Swahili: “Alpena”
  • Swedish: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Swedish: “Alpena”
  • Tatar: “Алпина”
  • Tibetan: “ཨཱལ་པེ་ན།”
  • Turkish: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Turkish: “Alpena”
  • Ukrainian: “Алпіна”
  • Urdu: “الپنا، مشی گن”
  • Urdu: “الپنا”
  • Uzbek: “Alpena”
  • Uzbek: “Алпена”
  • Vietnamese: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Vietnamese: “Alpena”
  • Volapük: “Alpena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alpena”
  • Welsh: “Alpena, Michigan”
  • Welsh: “Alpena”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alpena”. Photo: Ipoellet, CC BY-SA 4.0.