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Black Rock City

Black Rock City, is an ephemeral town that exists for only one week each year, during Burning Man, a radical arts festival. At its maximum occupancy, the town has about 60,000 citizens and a post office, an emergency services crew, a volunteer police department, roads, houses, bars, clubs, restaurants, and hundreds of art installations and participatory "theme camps".
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: annual experimental festival based in Nevada, United States
  • Also known as: “BRC”, “Burning Man”, “Burning Man Festival”, and “Burning Man Project”
Photo: torroid, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Black Rock City

Latitude
40.7871° or 40° 47′ 14″ north
Longitude
-119.2025° or 119° 12′ 9″ west
Elevation
3,911 feet (1,192 metres)
Open location code
85G2QQPX+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 290062982
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q152518
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Black Rock City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Burning Man”
  • Arabic: “الرجل يحترق”
  • Arabic: “مهرجان الرجل المحترق”
  • Armenian: “Burning Man”
  • Armenian: “Այրվող Մարդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yanan adam festivalı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yanan adam”
  • Belarusian: “Burning Man”
  • Bulgarian: “Burning Man”
  • Bulgarian: “Бърнинг Мен”
  • Catalan: “Burning Man”
  • Chinese: “火人祭”
  • Chinese: “火人节”
  • Chinese: “燃燒人”
  • Czech: “Burning Man”
  • Dutch: “Burning Man”
  • Finnish: “Burning Man”
  • French: “Burning Man Festival”
  • French: “Burning Man”
  • French: “Festival Burning Man”
  • Galician: “Burning Man”
  • Georgian: “Burning Man”
  • German: “Burning Man Festival”
  • German: “Burning Man”
  • Hebrew: “איש בוער”
  • Hebrew: “בלאק רוק סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “ברנינג מאן”
  • Hebrew: “ברנינג מן”
  • Hebrew: “האיש הבוער”
  • Hebrew: “פסטיבל האיש הבוער”
  • Icelandic: “Burning Man”
  • Ido: “Brulanta Viro”
  • Irish: “Burning Man”
  • Italian: “Black Rock City”
  • Italian: “Burning Man”
  • Italian: “Festival Burning Man”
  • Japanese: “バーニングマン”
  • Kölsch: “Burning Man”
  • Korean: “버닝 맨”
  • Latin: “Spectaculum Hominis Ardentis”
  • Lithuanian: “Burning Man”
  • Persian: “برنینگ من”
  • Persian: “جشنواره مرد سوزان”
  • Persian: “جشنوارهٔ مرد سوزان”
  • Persian: “مرد سوزان”
  • Polish: “Burning Man”
  • Portuguese: “Burning Man”
  • Romanian: “Burning Man”
  • Russian: “Burning Man”
  • Russian: “Горящий человек”
  • Russian: “Пылающий человек”
  • Spanish: “Black Rock City”
  • Spanish: “Burning Man Festival”
  • Spanish: “Burning man”
  • Spanish: “Burning Man”
  • Swedish: “Burning Man”
  • Tamil: “எரியும் மனிதன்”
  • Turkish: “Burning Man”
  • Ukrainian: “Burning Man”
  • Urdu: “جلتا ہوا آدمی”
  • Vietnamese: “Black Rock City”
  • Vietnamese: “Burning Man”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Black Rock”
  • “Burning Man”

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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 “Black Rock City”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.