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Galveston

Bolivar Peninsula

Bolivar Peninsula is a narrow strip of sand, 28 mi long, separating Galveston Bay from the Gulf of Mexico just east of , . In places, the peninsula is as little as 1,000 meters in width.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 2,420 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Galveston County, Texas
  • Also known as: “Bolivar Peninsula, Texas” and “Bolivar Peninsula, TX”

Bolivar Peninsula

Latitude
29.4783° or 29° 28′ 42″ north
Longitude
-94.5799° or 94° 34′ 48″ west
Population
2,420
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Open location code
76X7FCHC+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151354920
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
4675536
Wiki­data ID
Q981461
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bolivar Peninsula” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوليفار بينينسيولا (تكساس)”
  • Arabic: “بوليفار بينينسيولا، تكساس”
  • Arabic: “بوليفار بينينسيولا”
  • Basque: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Catalan: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Cebuano: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Chechen: “Боливар-Пенинсула”
  • Chinese: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Chinese: “玻利瓦尔半岛”
  • Croatian: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Dutch: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوليفار بينينسيولا”
  • French: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Gilaki: “بولووار پنینسولا”
  • Haitian: “Bolivar Peninsula, Texas”
  • Haitian: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Irish: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Italian: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Ladin: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Malagasy: “Bolivar Peninsula, Texas”
  • Malagasy: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Norwegian: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Persian: “بولیوار پنیزیولا”
  • Polish: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Portuguese: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Serbian: “Боливар Пенинсула”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bolivar Peninsula, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بولیوار پنیزیولا، تکزاس”
  • Spanish: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula Bolivar”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula Bolívar”
  • Spanish: “Península Bolívar”
  • Tatar: “Боливар-Пенинсула”
  • Ukrainian: “Болівар-Пенінсула”
  • Urdu: “بولیور جزیرہ نما، ٹیکساس”
  • Urdu: “بولیور جزیرہ نما”
  • Uzbek: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Uzbek: “Боливар Пенинсула”
  • Vietnamese: “Bolivar Peninsula, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Volapük: “Bolivar Peninsula”
  • Western Panjabi: “بولیور جزیرہ نما، ٹیکساس”
  • Western Panjabi: “بولیور جزیرہ نما”

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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 “Bolivar Peninsula”. Photo: Bettina Arrigoni, CC BY 2.0.