Asheville

The city of Asheville is a liberal, artsy community nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains and in . A popular tourist destination, this "Paris of the South," has one of the most impressive, comprehensive collections of Art Deco architecture in the United States.
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  • Type: City with 72,800 residents
  • Description: county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Asheville, NC”, “Asheville, North Carolina”, “Biltmore”, “Kasdu’yi”, “Keniworth”, “Montford”, “Morristown”, “Ramoth”, “Sunset Park”, “Victoria”, “West Asheville”, and “Woolsey”
  • Postal codes: 28801-28806, 28810, and 28813-28816

Places of Interest

Highlights include Asheville Art Museum and The Orange Peel.

Museum
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The is a nonprofit visual art organization in Western and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The museum is located on the center square of downtown Asheville, 2 South Pack Square at Pack Place.

Theater building
Photo: Warren LeMay, CC0.
is a music venue located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. It has a capacity of 1,050 people.

Town hall
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, is a historic Art Deco brick and stone governmental office building located on Court Plaza in Asheville, North Carolina, .

Asheville

Latitude
35.5954° or 35° 35′ 43″ north
Longitude
-82.5508° or 82° 33′ 3″ west
Population
72,800
Elevation
2,129 feet (649 metres)
IATA airport code
AVL
United Nations Location Code
US AEV
Open location code
867VHCWX+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154397811
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4453066
Wiki­data ID
Q648501
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Asheville” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Asheville”
  • Albanian: “Asheville”
  • Arabic: “آشفيل، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Arabic: “آشفيل”
  • Arabic: “أشفيل, كارولاينا الشمالية”
  • Armenian: “Աշվիլ”
  • Armenian: “Էշվիլ”
  • Asturian: “Asheville”
  • Bashkir: “Ашвилл”
  • Basque: “Asheville”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাশেভিল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашвил”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашевил”
  • Catalan: “Asheville”
  • Cebuano: “Asheville”
  • Chechen: “Эшвилл”
  • Chinese: “Asheville”
  • Chinese: “阿什維爾”
  • Chinese: “阿什维尔”
  • Czech: “Asheville”
  • Dagbani: “Asheville”
  • Danish: “Asheville”
  • Dutch: “Asheville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آشفيل, نورث كارولاينا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آشفيل”
  • Esperanto: “Asheville, Norda Karolino”
  • Esperanto: “Asheville”
  • Esperanto: “Aŝvilo”
  • Finnish: “Asheville”
  • French: “Asheville”
  • Galician: “Asheville, Carolina do Norte”
  • Galician: “Asheville”
  • German: “Asheville”
  • Gilaki: “أشويل”
  • Greek: “Άσβιλ”
  • Gujarati: “આશેવિલ”
  • Haitian: “Asheville, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hebrew: “אשוויל”
  • Hindi: “ऐशविल”
  • Hungarian: “Asheville”
  • Indonesian: “Asheville”
  • Irish: “Asheville, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Asheville”
  • Italian: “Asheville”
  • Japanese: “アシュヴィル”
  • Japanese: “アシュビル”
  • Japanese: “アッシュヴィル”
  • Japanese: “アッシュビル”
  • Kannada: “ಆಶೆವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “애슈빌”
  • Ladin: “Asheville”
  • Latin: “Asheville”
  • Latvian: “Ešvila”
  • Lithuanian: “Ašvilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Ešvilis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Asheville”
  • Malagasy: “Asheville, North Carolina”
  • Malagasy: “Asheville”
  • Malay: “Asheville”
  • Marathi: “अशविल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Asheville”
  • Moksha: “Эшвилл”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Asheville”
  • Norwegian: “Asheville”
  • Ossetian: “Ашвилл”
  • Ossetian: “Эшвилл”
  • Ossetian: “Эшвиль”
  • Persian: “اشویل، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “اشویل”
  • Polish: “Asheville”
  • Portuguese: “Asheville, North Carolina”
  • Portuguese: “Asheville”
  • Russian: “Ашвилл”
  • Russian: “Эшвилл”
  • Scots: “Asheville”
  • Serbian: “Asheville”
  • Serbian: “Ешвил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Asheville, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Asheville”
  • Silesian: “Asheville”
  • Sinhala: “ඈශ්විල්”
  • Slovak: “Asheville”
  • Slovenian: “Asheville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اشویل، قوزئی کارولینا”
  • Spanish: “Asheville (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Asheville”
  • Swahili: “Asheville, North Carolina”
  • Swahili: “Asheville”
  • Swedish: “Ashevill”
  • Swedish: “Asheville, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Asheville”
  • Tagalog: “Asheville”
  • Tamil: “ஆஷேவில்லே”
  • Tatar: “Эшвилл (Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Эшвилл”
  • Telugu: “ఆషేవిల్లే”
  • Thai: “แอชวิลล์”
  • Turkish: “Asheville”
  • Ukrainian: “Ешвілл”
  • Ukrainian: “Ешвіль”
  • Urdu: “ایشویل، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Asheville”
  • Vietnamese: “Asheville”
  • Volapük: “Asheville, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Asheville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Asheville, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Asheville”
  • Welsh: “Asheville, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Asheville”
  • “Asheville”

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