Colorado
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Adams

Brighton

Brighton is a city of about 42,000 in the Denver Metropolitan Area of the western U.S. state of . The seat of Adams County and also extending into adjacent Weld County, the city lies northeast of along the South Platte River.
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  • Type: Town with 39,800 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Adams County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Brighton, CO”, “Brighton, Colorado”, “Hughes”, and “Hughes Junction”
  • Postal codes: 80601-80603

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brighton High School.

School
is a secondary school located on South 8th Avenue in the heart of Brighton, Colorado, United States. It is one of three main high schools in the Brighton 27J School District,…

Brighton

Latitude
39.9837° or 39° 59′ 1″ north
Longitude
-104.8111° or 104° 48′ 40″ west
Population
39,800
Elevation
4,984 feet (1,519 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BGK
Open location code
85FQX5MQ+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8878025939
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5414941
Wiki­data ID
Q252949
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Brighton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برايتون”
  • Basque: “Brighton”
  • Belarusian: “Брайтан”
  • Bulgarian: “Брайтън”
  • Catalan: “Brighton”
  • Cebuano: “Brighton”
  • Chechen: “Брайтон”
  • Chinese: “Brighton”
  • Chinese: “布莱顿”
  • Czech: “Brighton”
  • Danish: “Brighton”
  • Dutch: “Brighton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برايتون”
  • Finnish: “Brighton”
  • French: “Brighton”
  • German: “Brighton”
  • Gilaki: “برایتن (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “برایتن”
  • Greek: “Μπράιτον”
  • Haitian: “Brighton, Kolorado”
  • Haitian: “Brighton”
  • Hebrew: “ברייטון”
  • Hungarian: “Brighton”
  • Irish: “Brighton”
  • Italian: “Brighton”
  • Japanese: “ブライトン (コロラド州)”
  • Japanese: “ブライトン”
  • Kazakh: “Брайтон”
  • Kirghiz: “Брайтон”
  • Korean: “브라이턴”
  • Ladin: “Brighton”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brighton”
  • Malagasy: “Brighton, Colorado”
  • Malagasy: “Brighton”
  • Marathi: “ब्रायटन”
  • Mazanderani: “برایتن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brighton”
  • Newari: “ब्राइटन (कोलोर्याडो)”
  • Newari: “ब्राइटन, कोलोर्याडो”
  • Newari: “ब्राइटन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brighton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brighton”
  • Norwegian: “Brighton”
  • Persian: “برایتن، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “برایتن”
  • Persian: “برایتون، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “برایتون”
  • Polish: “Brighton”
  • Portuguese: “Brighton”
  • Russian: “Брайтон (Колорадо)”
  • Russian: “Брайтон”
  • Serbian: “Брајтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brighton, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brighton”
  • Slovak: “Brighton”
  • Slovenian: “Brighton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بریقتون، کولورادو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بریقتون”
  • Spanish: “Brighton (Colorado)”
  • Spanish: “Brighton”
  • Swedish: “Brighton, Colorado”
  • Swedish: “Brighton”
  • Talysh: “Brajton”
  • Talysh: “Brayton(Kolorado)”
  • Tatar: “Брайтон”
  • Turkish: “Brighton, Colorado”
  • Turkish: “Brighton”
  • Ukrainian: “Брайтон”
  • Urdu: “برائٹن، کولوراڈو”
  • Urdu: “برائٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Brighton”
  • Vietnamese: “Brighton, Colorado”
  • Vietnamese: “Brighton”
  • Volapük: “Brighton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brighton, Colorado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brighton”
  • Welsh: “Brighton, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Brighton”

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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 “Brighton”. Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0.