Aurora

Aurora is a city of about 400,000 of the Denver Metropolitan Area in the western U.S. state of . The city lies immediately east of in Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties. In 2008 it was named the "All American City."…
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  • Type: City with 386,000 residents
  • Description: city in Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: Aurora, CO”, “Aurora, Colorado”, “Aurora, USA”, and “Fletcher
  • Postal codes: 80011, 80019, 80040, 80042, and 80045
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include University of Colorado Hospital and Colfax station.

Hospital
UCHealth or University Hospital is part of UCHealth and is a Level I trauma center and the principal teaching hospital for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, located in Aurora, Colorado.

Railway station
is a Regional Transportation District light rail station on the R Line in Aurora, Colorado. The station is located on the light rail bridge elevated above Colfax Avenue between Fitzsimons Parkway and Interstate 225.

Railway station
is a Regional Transportation District light rail station on the R Line in Aurora, Colorado. The station is located alongside Interstate 225, a few blocks west of intersection of 13th Avenue and Sable Boulevard.

Aurora

Latitude
39.7405° or 39° 44′ 26″ north
Longitude
-104.831° or 104° 49′ 52″ west
Population
386,000
Elevation
5,407 feet (1,648 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US AUC
Open location code
85FQP5R9+6J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151744721
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5412347
Wiki­data ID
Q49246
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Aurora” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: أورورا
  • Armenian: Ավրորա
  • Azerbaijani: Aurora
  • Basque: Aurora
  • Belarusian: Арора
  • Belarusian: Аўрора
  • Breton: Aurora
  • Bulgarian: Аурора
  • Catalan: Aurora
  • Cebuano: Aurora
  • Central Kurdish: ئۆرۆرا
  • Chechen: Орора
  • Chinese: Aurora
  • Chinese: 奥罗拉
  • Cornish: Aurora, Kolorado
  • Cornish: Aurora
  • Czech: Aurora
  • Danish: Aurora
  • Dutch: Aurora
  • Egyptian Arabic: اورورا
  • Esperanto: Aurora
  • Estonian: Aurora
  • Faroese: Aurora
  • Finnish: Aurora
  • French: Aurora
  • Galician: Aurora, Colorado
  • Galician: Aurora
  • German: Aurora
  • Gilaki: آرؤرا (کؤلؤرادؤ)
  • Gilaki: آرؤرا
  • Greek: Αουρόρα
  • Greek: Ωρόρα
  • Haitian: Aurora, Kolorado
  • Haitian: Aurora
  • Hebrew: אורורה
  • Hungarian: Aurora
  • Icelandic: Aurora
  • Indonesian: Aurora, Colorado
  • Indonesian: Aurora
  • Interlingue: Aurora
  • Irish: Aurora, Colorado
  • Irish: Aurora
  • Italian: Aurora
  • Japanese: オーロラ
  • Kalaallisut: Aurora
  • Kazakh: Аврора
  • Kirghiz: Аврора
  • Korean: 오로라
  • Ladin: Aurora
  • Latvian: Aurora
  • Lithuanian: Aurora
  • Lithuanian: Orora
  • Malagasy: Aurora, Colorado
  • Malagasy: Aurora
  • Malayalam: അറോറ, കൊളറാഡോ
  • Malayalam: അറോറ
  • Marathi: ऑरोरा
  • Mazanderani: آرورا
  • Min Nan Chinese: Aurora
  • Newari: औरोरा, कोलोर्याडो
  • Newari: औरोरा
  • Northern Frisian: Aurora
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Aurora
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Aurora i Colorado
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Aurora
  • Norwegian: Aurora
  • Occitan (post 1500): Aurora
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Eostrabyrg
  • Ossetian: Орорæ
  • Persian: آرورا، کلرادو
  • Persian: آرورا
  • Persian: آورورا، کلرادو
  • Persian: آورورا
  • Piemontese: Aurora
  • Polish: Aurora
  • Portuguese: Aurora
  • Romanian: Aurora, Colorado
  • Romanian: Aurora
  • Russian: Аврора
  • Russian: Орора (Колорадо)
  • Russian: Орора
  • Sardinian: Aurora
  • Scots: Aurora, Colorado
  • Scots: Aurora
  • Scottish Gaelic: Aurora, Colorado
  • Scottish Gaelic: Aurora
  • Serbian: Орора
  • Serbo-Croatian: Aurora, Colorado
  • Serbo-Croatian: Aurora
  • Slovak: Aurora
  • Slovenian: Aurora
  • South Azerbaijani: آورورا کولورادو
  • Spanish: Aurora (Colorado)
  • Spanish: Aurora
  • Swahili: Aurora, Colorado
  • Swahili: Aurora
  • Swedish: Aurora, Colorado
  • Swedish: Aurora
  • Tagalog: Aurora, Colorado
  • Tagalog: Aurora
  • Talysh: Orora
  • Tatar: Орора
  • Turkish: Aurora, Colorado
  • Turkish: Aurora, Kolorado
  • Turkish: Aurora
  • Ukrainian: Орора
  • Urdu: ارورا، کولوراڈو
  • Urdu: ارورا
  • Uzbek: Aurora
  • Venetian: Aurora
  • Vietnamese: Aurora, Colorado
  • Vietnamese: Aurora
  • Volapük: Aurora
  • Waray (Philippines): Aurora, Colorado
  • Waray (Philippines): Aurora
  • Welsh: Aurora, Colorado
  • Welsh: Aurora
  • Wu Chinese: 奥罗拉(科罗拉多州)
  • Wu Chinese: 奥罗拉
  • Aurora
  • Auròra

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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 Wikivoyage page “Aurora”. Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY-SA 3.0.