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Burien

Burien is in , on just south of . Amidst the strip malls and car dealerships of suburban Seattle is 'Old Town' Burien, a main street holding onto the area's early charm.
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  • Type: Town with 52,100 residents
  • Description: city in King County, Washington State, United States
  • Also known as: “Burien, WA” and “Burien, Washington”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Lake Burien.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, marketed as SEA Airport and commonly called Sea-Tac, is an international airport between and in the region of .

Lake
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
is a small lake in Burien, Washington, just west of downtown. The lake is publicly owned, but is completely surrounded by private property, rendering it inaccessible to the public.

Park
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, in Burien, Washington, is a 178-acre park with forests and a beach on . Originally a park, it was given to the newly incorporated city of Burien in 1996.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include White Center and SeaTac.

Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an unincorporated area of , just south of and north of Burien. The area embraces its nickname of 'Rat City', making it a part of its punk-rock mixed-ethnicity identity.

Photo: Atomic Taco, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a city in southern . Its name is a portmanteau of its larger neighbors: to the north, and to the south.

Village
is a city in , , United States. The population was 6,771 at the 2020 census. is situated 2½ miles south of Burien.

Burien

Latitude
47.4699° or 47° 28′ 12″ north
Longitude
-122.3485° or 122° 20′ 55″ west
Population
52,100
Elevation
377 feet (115 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US UIE
Open location code
84VVFM92+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150937401
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5788516
Wiki­data ID
Q984825
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Satellite Map

Discover Burien from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Burien” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورين”
  • Basque: “Burien”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъриън”
  • Bulgarian: “Бюриън”
  • Catalan: “Burien”
  • Cebuano: “Burien”
  • Chechen: “Берин”
  • Chinese: “Burien”
  • Chinese: “布里恩”
  • Croatian: “Burien”
  • Danish: “Burien”
  • Dutch: “Burien”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورين”
  • Esperanto: “Burien”
  • Finnish: “Burien”
  • French: “Burien”
  • German: “Burien”
  • Gilaki: “بۊرين (واشينگتن)”
  • Gilaki: “بۊرين”
  • Haitian: “Burien, Washington”
  • Haitian: “Burien”
  • Hungarian: “Burien”
  • Indonesian: “Burien, Washington”
  • Indonesian: “Burien”
  • Irish: “Burien”
  • Italian: “Burien”
  • Japanese: “ベリアン”
  • Korean: “벼리언”
  • Ladin: “Burien”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Burien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Burien”
  • Norwegian: “Burien”
  • Persian: “بارین، واشینگتن”
  • Persian: “بارین”
  • Persian: “بیورین”
  • Polish: “Burien”
  • Portuguese: “Burien”
  • Russian: “Бериен (Вашингтон)”
  • Russian: “Бериен”
  • Serbian: “Бјуријен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Burien, Washington”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Burien”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بورین، واشینقتون”
  • Spanish: “Burien (Washington)”
  • Spanish: “Burien”
  • Swedish: “Burien”
  • Tatar: “Берин”
  • Turkish: “Burien, Washington”
  • Turkish: “Burien”
  • Ukrainian: “Берін”
  • Uzbek: “Burien”
  • Vietnamese: “Burien, Washington”
  • Vietnamese: “Burien”
  • Volapük: “Burien”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Burien, Washington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Burien”
  • Welsh: “Burien, Washington”
  • Welsh: “Burien”

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