Dawson City
Dawson City, officially the Town of the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush. Its population was 1,375 as of the 2016 census, making it the second largest town of Yukon.
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Dawson City
- Type: Town
- Description: town
- Category: Municipal government in Canada
- Location: Yukon, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- Population: 1320
- IATA airport code: YDA
- United Nations Location Code: CA YDA
- Latitude: 64.0607° or 64° 3' 38.4" north
- Longitude: -139.4317° or 139° 25' 54.1" west
- Elevation: 370 metres (1214 feet)
- OpenStreetMap ID: node 329173415
- GeoNames ID: 6943713
Also Known As
- Albanian: Dawson City
- Arabic: داوسون
- Armenian: Դոուսոն
- Belarusian: Доўсан-Сіці
- Catalan: Dawson City
- Cebuano: Dawson City
- Central Kurdish: داوسن
- Chinese: 道森
- Chinese: 道森市
- Czech: Dawson City
- Danish: Dawson
- Dutch: Dawson City
- Esperanto: Dawson
- Finnish: Dawson City
- French: Cité de Dawson
- French: Dawson City
- German: Dawson
- German: Dawson City
- Greek: Ντόσον Σίτι
- Hebrew: דוסון סיטי
- Indonesian: Dawson, Yukon
- Indonesian: Dawson
- Indonesian: Dawson City
- Indonesian: Kota Dawson
- Irish: Dawson City
- Italian: Dawson City
- Japanese: ドーソンシティ
- Japanese: ドーソン・シティ
- Kalaallisut: Dawson City
- Korean: 도슨시티
- Lithuanian: Dosonas
- Malay: Dawson City
- Norwegian: Dawson City
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dawson
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dawson City
- Persian: داوسون سیتی
- Polish: Dawson City
- Portuguese: Dawson City
- Romanian: Dawson City
- Russian: Даусон-Сити
- Russian: Доусон-Сіті
- Russian: Доусон-сити
- Russian: Доусон
- Sardinian: Dawson City
- Serbian: Досон
- Serbo-Croatian: Dawson, Yukon)
- Serbo-Croatian: Dawson, Yukon
- Serbo-Croatian: Dawson
- Slovak: Dawson
- Spanish: Dawson City
- Swedish: Dawson
- Swedish: Dawson City
- Ukrainian: Доусон-Сіті
- Urdu: ڈاوسن شہر
- Vietnamese: Dawson, Yukon
- Wu Chinese: 道森市
- Altepetl Dawson
In the Area
Localities
- MoosehideVillage, 4 km north
- Gold BottomLocality, 25 km southeast
- Rock CreekLocality, 27 km northeast
- Rock CreekLocality, 32 km northeast
- Rock CreekLocality, 32 km northeast
- GlenboyleLocality, 36 km east
Landmarks
- Lieu historique national du Canada S.S. KenoReserve
- S.S. Keno National Historic Site of CanadaReserve
- Klondike RiverConfluence
- Bonanza CreekStream
- Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site of CanadaReserve
- Lieu historique national du Canada du Complexe-Historique-de-DawsonReserve
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