Banff
The town of Banff in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, is the larger of the two populated areas in Banff National Park, about an hour and a half drive west of Calgary and four hours south of Jasper.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Audree, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 7,850 residents
- Description: town in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Banff, AB” and “Banff, Alberta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cave and Basin National Historic Site and Tunnel Mountain.
Cave and Basin National Historic Site
Photo: Sovernigo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cave and Basin National Historic Site of Canada is located in the town of Banff, Alberta, within the Canadian Rocky Mountains, at the site of natural thermal mineral springs around which Canada's first national park, Banff National Park, was established.
Tunnel Mountain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tunnel Mountain, also known as Sleeping Buffalo, is a mountain located in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada at the junction of the Spray River with the Bow and overlooking the Hot Springs on Sulphur Mountain.
Banff Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Diannaa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Banff station is a railway station in Banff, Alberta, Canada. It is used by Royal Canadian Pacific and the Rocky Mountaineer, and previously by Canadian Pacific Railway and Via Rail.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anthracite.
Anthracite
Locality
Anthracite is a ghost town located within Banff National Park in southern Alberta, Canada. It is named after the anthracite variety of coal. Anthracite is situated 6 km east of Banff.
Banff
- Categories: town in Alberta and locality
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.1781° or 51° 10′ 41″ northLongitude
-115.5719° or 115° 34′ 19″ westPopulation
7,850Elevation
1,388 metres (4,554 feet)IATA airport code
YBAUnited Nations Location Code
CA BAFOpen location code
95365CHH+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 29546626OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5892532Wikidata ID
Q58337
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Banff” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Banff”
- Arabic: “بانف”
- Armenian: “Բանֆ, Ալբերտա”
- Armenian: “Բանֆ”
- Asturian: “Banff”
- Atikamekw: “Banff”
- Belarusian: “Банф”
- Bengali: “ব্যানফ, অ্যালবার্টা”
- Bengali: “ব্যানফ”
- Catalan: “Banff”
- Cebuano: “Banff”
- Chinese: “Banff”
- Chinese: “班夫”
- Chinese: “班夫镇”
- Chinese: “班芙”
- Chinese: “班芙鎮”
- Czech: “Banff”
- Dagbani: “Banff”
- Dutch: “Banff (Canada)”
- Dutch: “Banff”
- Esperanto: “Banff”
- Esperanto: “Banfo”
- Finnish: “Banff”
- French: “Banff”
- Galician: “Banff, Alberta”
- Galician: “Banff”
- Georgian: “ბანფი”
- German: “Banff”
- Greek: “Μπανφ”
- Hebrew: “באנף”
- Igbo: “AB”
- Igbo: “Banff”
- Italian: “Banff (Canada)”
- Italian: “Banff”
- Japanese: “バンフ”
- Korean: “밴프”
- Kurdish: “Banff, Alberta”
- Kurdish: “Banff”
- Lithuanian: “Banfas”
- Lithuanian: “Banff”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Banff”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Banff”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Banff”
- Norwegian: “Banff”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Banff”
- Persian: “بنف”
- Polish: “Banff”
- Portuguese: “Banff”
- Romanian: “Banff, Alberta”
- Romanian: “Banff”
- Russian: “Банф”
- Russian: “Банфф”
- Serbian: “Банф”
- Slovak: “Banff”
- Slovenian: “Banff”
- Spanish: “Banff (Alberta)”
- Spanish: “Banff”
- Swedish: “Banff, Kanada”
- Swedish: “Banff”
- Turkish: “Banff”
- Ukrainian: “Банф”
- Ukrainian: “Банфф”
- Urdu: “بینف، البرٹا”
- Urdu: “بینف”
- Uzbek: “Banff”
- Vietnamese: “Banff, Alberta”
- Vietnamese: “Banff”
- Welsh: “Banff, Alberta”
- Welsh: “Banff”
- Western Frisian: “Banff”
- Western Panjabi: “بینف، البرٹا”
- Western Panjabi: “بینف”
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