Creston
Creston is a town of about 5,600 people in the West Kootenays, at the south end of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia.
- Type: Town with 5,580 residents
- Description: town in southeastern British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Creston (Columbia Británica)”, “Creston, BC”, “Creston, British Columbia”, and “Town of Creston”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kootenay River Secondary School and Columbia Brewery.
Creston
- Categories: administrative territorial entity and locality
- Location: Creston, Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.0974° or 49° 5′ 51″ north
Longitude
-116.5131° or 116° 30′ 47″ west
Population
5,580
Elevation
647 metres (2,123 feet)
IATA airport code
CFQ
UN/LOCODE
CA CFQ
Open location code
85X53FWP+XQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Creston” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Creston”
- Catalan: “Creston”
- Cebuano: “Creston”
- Chinese: “克雷斯頓 (英屬哥倫比亞)”
- Chinese: “克雷斯頓”
- Chinese: “克雷斯顿”
- Danish: “Creston”
- Dutch: “Creston”
- French: “Creston”
- German: “Creston”
- Hebrew: “קרסטון”
- Italian: “Creston”
- Japanese: “クレストン”
- Persian: “کرستن، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Persian: “کرستن”
- Spanish: “Creston”
- Swedish: “Creston, British Columbia”
- Swedish: “Creston”
- Ukrainian: “Крестон”
- Urdu: “کرسٹن، برٹش کولمبیا”
- Yue Chinese: “克雷斯頓”
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