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Charleston

Charleston is the largest and oldest city in the state of in the United States of America. Its historic downtown is on a peninsula formed by two rivers, the Ashley and the Cooper, flowing into the Atlantic, and protected from the open ocean by surrounding islands.
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  • Type: City with 158,000 residents
  • Description: largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina
  • Also known as: “Charles Town”, “Charles Towne”, “Charleston, SC”, “Charleston, South Carolina”, “Charlestowne”, “Charlstoun”, “Charlstown”, and “CHS”
  • Postal codes: 29401-29403, 29406, 29407, 29409, 29412-29414, 29416, 29417, and 29422-29425

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gibbes Museum of Art and South Carolina Aquarium.

Museum
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The , formerly known as the Gibbes Art Gallery, is an art museum in Charleston, South Carolina. Established as the Carolina Art Association in 1858, the museum moved into a new Beaux Arts building at 135 Meeting Street, in the Charleston Historic District, in 1905.

Public aquarium
The , located in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, opened on May 19, 2000. Located on the historic Charleston Harbor, visitors can enjoy views of the waterfront, including the USS Yorktown and Ravenel Bridge.

Museum
The is a museum of African-American history in Charleston, South Carolina, located at a former shipping wharf where approximately 40% of the nation's enslaved persons disembarked.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include French Quarter and Wraggborough.

Quarter
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The is a historic district and a section of downtown Charleston, , , that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Quarter
is a neighborhood in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, named after slave trader Joseph Wragg, and noted for its association with the slave trade.

Quarter
is a neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1726, Captain George Anson acquired a 64-acre tract from Thomas Gadsden. Anson's lands were divided into smaller parcels for development, and several streets were named either for his ships or for himself: George and Anson, Scarborough and Squirrel, and Centurion.

Charleston

Latitude
32.7884° or 32° 47′ 18″ north
Longitude
-79.9399° or 79° 56′ 24″ west
Population
158,000
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Inception
1670
United Nations Location Code
US CHS
Open location code
8742Q3Q6+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 36967884
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4574324
Wiki­data ID
Q47716
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Charleston” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Charleston, Suid-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Charleston”
  • Albanian: “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • Albanian: “Charleston”
  • Arabic: “تشارلستون”
  • Aragonese: “Charleston”
  • Armenian: “Չարլսթոն”
  • Armenian: “Չարլստոն”
  • Asturian: “Charleston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çarlston”
  • Basque: “Charleston”
  • Belarusian: “Чарлстан”
  • Bengali: “চার্লসটন, সাউথ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bengali: “চার্লসটন”
  • Breton: “Charleston”
  • Bulgarian: “Чарлстън”
  • Catalan: “Charleston”
  • Cebuano: “Charleston”
  • Chechen: “Чарлстон”
  • Chinese: “Charleston”
  • Chinese: “查尔斯顿”
  • Chinese: “查爾斯頓”
  • Chinese: “查理斯頓”
  • Cornish: “Charleston, Karolina Dheghow”
  • Cornish: “Charleston”
  • Croatian: “Charleston, Južna Karolina”
  • Croatian: “Charleston”
  • Czech: “Charleston”
  • Danish: “Charleston”
  • Dutch: “Charleston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشارلستون”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉarlstono”
  • Esperanto: “Charleston”
  • Estonian: “Charleston”
  • Faroese: “Charleston”
  • Finnish: “Charleston”
  • French: “Charleston”
  • Galician: “Charleston, Carolina do Sur”
  • Galician: “Charleston”
  • German: “Charles Town”
  • German: “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • German: “Charleston”
  • Gilaki: “چارلستن (نسايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “چارلستن”
  • Greek: “Τσάρλεστον”
  • Gujarati: “ચાર્લસ્ટન”
  • Haitian: “Charleston, Kawolin disid”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ארלסטון”
  • Hebrew: “צארלסטון”
  • Hindi: “चार्ल्सटन”
  • Hungarian: “Charleston”
  • Icelandic: “Charleston”
  • Indonesian: “Charleston, Carolina Selatan”
  • Interlingua: “Charleston”
  • Irish: “Charleston, Carolina Theas”
  • Irish: “Charleston”
  • Italian: “Charleston”
  • Japanese: “チャールストン”
  • Kannada: “ಚಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “찰스턴”
  • Ladin: “Charleston”
  • Latin: “Carolopolis”
  • Latvian: “Čārlstona”
  • Lithuanian: “Čarlstonas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Charleston”
  • Malay: “Charleston”
  • Marathi: “चार्लस्टन”
  • Marathi: “चार्ल्सटन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Charleston”
  • Navajo: “Atʼaʼ Yiltʼąąʼí Ńtʼiʼí”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Charleston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Charleston i Sør-Carolina”
  • Norwegian: “Charleston”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Charleston”
  • Persian: “چارلستون، کارولینای جنوبی”
  • Persian: “چارلستون”
  • Piemontese: “Charleston”
  • Polish: “Charleston”
  • Portuguese: “Charleston”
  • Romanian: “Charleston, Carolina de Sud”
  • Romanian: “Charleston”
  • Russian: “Чарлстон”
  • Russian: “Чарльстон”
  • Scots: “Charleston, Sooth Carolina”
  • Scots: “Charleston”
  • Serbian: “Чарлстон”
  • Serbian: “Чарслтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Charleston”
  • Silesian: “Charleston”
  • Sinhala: “චාර්ල්ස්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Charleston”
  • Slovenian: “Charleston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چارلستون، جنوبی کارولینا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چارلستون، گونئی کارولینا”
  • Spanish: “Charleston (Carolina del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Charleston”
  • Swahili: “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • Swahili: “Charleston”
  • Swedish: “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Charleston”
  • Tagalog: “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • Tagalog: “Charleston”
  • Tajik: “Чарлстон”
  • Tamil: “சார்லஸ்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Чарлстон”
  • Telugu: “చార్లెస్ స్టన్”
  • Thai: “ชาร์ลสตัน”
  • Turkish: “Charleston, Güney Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Charleston”
  • Ukrainian: “Чарлстон”
  • Urdu: “چارلسٹن، جنوبی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “Charleston”
  • Vietnamese: “Charleston, Nam Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Charleston”
  • Volapük: “Charleston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Charleston”
  • Welsh: “Charleston, De Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Charleston”
  • Wu Chinese: “查尔斯顿 (南卡罗来纳州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “查尔斯顿（南卡罗来纳州）”
  • Yoruba: “Charleston, South Carolina”
  • Yoruba: “Charleston”
  • Yue Chinese: “查理斯頓”
  • “Charleston”

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