British Columbia
Regional District of Central Kootenay
Creston

Creston

Creston is a town of about 5,600 people in the West Kootenays, at the south end of Kootenay Lake in .
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  • Type: Town with 5,580 residents
  • Description: town in southeastern British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Creston, BC”, “Creston, British Columbia”, and “Town of Creston”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kootenay River Secondary School.

School
is a public high school in Creston, British Columbia, ; part of School District 8 Kootenay Lake. The school provides a range of activities that students can enroll in, and many clubs as well.

Creston

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
United Nations Location Code
CA CFQ
Open location code
85X53FWP+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5341538170
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5932311
Wiki­data ID
Q1139747
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Spanish: “Creston (Columbia Británica)”
  • Spanish: “Creston”
  • Swedish: “Creston, British Columbia”
  • Swedish: “Creston”
  • Ukrainian: “Крестон”
  • Yue Chinese: “克雷斯頓”

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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 “Creston”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.