Cape Cod

Cape Cod is an arm-shaped peninsula on the easternmost portion of . It is a well-traveled tourist and vacation area, featuring miles and miles of beaches, natural attractions, historic sites, art galleries and many four-star restaurants.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Nantucket and Barnstable.

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is an island and town 30 mi off the coast of Cape Cod and part of .

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is in on Cape Cod.

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is a town on the island of .

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Martha’s Vineyard and Upper Cape.

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Martha's Vineyard is an island 8 miles off the Cape Cod peninsula in .

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is the westernmost region of Cape Cod, nearest to the Cape Cod Canal.

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The is the area of Cape Cod at the end of the peninsula.

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The is the area of Cape Cod at the "elbow" of the arm-shaped peninsula.

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The is the Central region of Cape Cod.

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is a national seashore…

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is a town in off of Cape Cod…

Cape Cod

Latitude of center
41.869° or 41° 52′ 8″ north
Longitude of center
-70.268° or 70° 16′ 5″ west
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
Geo­Names ID
4933508
Wiki­data ID
Q49152
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Cape Cod” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cape Cod”
  • Arabic: “رأس القد”
  • Azerbaijani: “Keyp Kod yarımadası”
  • Basque: “Cod lurmuturra”
  • Belarusian: “Кейп-Код”
  • Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Кейп-Код”
  • Bengali: “কেপ কড”
  • Bulgarian: “Кейп Код”
  • Catalan: “Cap Cod”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Cod”
  • Chinese: “科德角”
  • Czech: “Cape Cod”
  • Danish: “Cape Cod”
  • Dutch: “Cape Cod”
  • Esperanto: “Kabo Cod”
  • Estonian: “Cape Cod”
  • Finnish: “Cape Cod”
  • French: “cap Cod”
  • French: “Cap Cod”
  • Galician: “Cabo Cod”
  • German: “Cape Cod”
  • Greek: “Ακρωτήριο Κοντ”
  • Greek: “Κέιπ Κοντ”
  • Hebrew: “קייפ קוד”
  • Hungarian: “Cape Cod”
  • Icelandic: “Þorskhöfði”
  • Indonesian: “Cape Cod”
  • Irish: “Cape Cod”
  • Italian: “Capo Cod”
  • Japanese: “ケープコッド”
  • Korean: “케이프코드”
  • Korean: “코드곶”
  • Lithuanian: “Keip Kodas”
  • Macedonian: “Кејп Код”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Cod”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Cod”
  • Norwegian: “Cape Cod”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cap Cod”
  • Ossetian: “Кейп-Код”
  • Persian: “دماغه کاد”
  • Polish: “Cape Cod”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo Cod”
  • Romanian: “Cape Cod”
  • Russian: “Кейп-Код”
  • Scots: “Cape Cod”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cod”
  • Slovak: “Cape Cod”
  • Slovenian: “Cape Cod”
  • Spanish: “Cabo Cod”
  • Swedish: “Cape Cod”
  • Tajik: “Кейп Код”
  • Thai: “เคปค้อด”
  • Turkish: “Cod Burnu”
  • Ukrainian: “Кейп-Код”
  • Vietnamese: “mũi đất Cod”

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