Colorado
Denver Area
City & County of Denver

Denver

Denver is the capital of the western U.S. state of and the dominant city of the . Founded in 1858 as the placer gold mining camp known as the Cherry Creek Diggings, the "Mile-High City" is today the most populous city within a 560-mile radius and the center of the Front Range Urban Corridor of more than five million residents.
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  • Type: City with 716,000 residents
  • Description: consolidated city-county and capital of Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “City and County of Denver”, “Denver, CO”, “Denver, Colorado”, “Mile High City”, “Mile-High City”, “Queen City of the Plains”, “Queen City of the West”, “Saint Charles”, “The Mexican Diggings”, and “The Spanish Diggings”
  • Postal codes: 80201-80212, 80216-80220, 80222-80224, 80227, 80230, 80231, 80235-80239, 80243, 80244, 80246, 80248-80252, 80256, 80257, 80259, 80261-80266, 80271, 80273, 80274, 80281, 80290, 80291, 80293, 80294, and 80299
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Denver Art Museum and Ball Arena.

Museum
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The is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With an encyclopedic collection of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums between the and Chicago.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Denver, Colorado, United States. It is situated at Speer Boulevard, a main thoroughfare in downtown Denver, and is served by two nearby exits off Interstate 25.

Public building
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The is a branch of the United States Mint that struck its first coins on February 1, 1906. The mint is still operating and producing coins for circulation, as well as mint sets and commemorative coins.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capitol Hill and Union Station.

Neighborhood
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The neighborhood of the City and County of Denver, , United States, is bordered by Broadway, Downing Street, Colfax Avenue, and Seventh Avenue, which carry large volumes of traffic around the neighborhood.

Neighborhood
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is a downtown neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. In 2020, the population of the neighborhood was roughly 5,878. The neighborhood is named for , Denver's main railroad terminal.

Neighborhood
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, often referred to as Uptown, is a center city neighborhood near the Colorado State Capitol. The neighborhood has a diverse population, and is similar to surrounding neighborhoods of Five Points and , in that it cannot be defined by a single demographic.

Denver

Latitude
39.7392° or 39° 44′ 21″ north
Longitude
-104.9849° or 104° 59′ 6″ west
Population
716,000
Elevation
5,279 feet (1,609 metres)
IATA airport code
DEN
United Nations Location Code
US DEN
Open location code
85FQP2Q8+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151465650
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5419384
Wiki­data ID
Q16554
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Denver” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Denver”
  • Albanian: “Denver”
  • Amharic: “ደንቨር”
  • Arabic: “دنفر”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة دينفر، كولورادو”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه دينفر، كولورادو”
  • Aragonese: “Denver”
  • Armenian: “Դենվեր”
  • Asturian: “Denver”
  • Azerbaijani: “Denver”
  • Bambara: “Denver”
  • Basque: “Denver”
  • Bavarian: “Denver”
  • Belarusian: “Дэнвер”
  • Belarusian: “Дэнвэр”
  • Bengali: “কুইন সিটি অব দি প্লেইন্স”
  • Bengali: “ডেনভার”
  • Bengali: “মাইল হাই সিটি”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডেনভার কাউন্টি, কলোরাডো”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডেনভার কাউন্টি”
  • Bislama: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Bislama: “Denver”
  • Bosnian: “Denver”
  • Breton: “Denver”
  • Bulgarian: “Денвър”
  • Catalan: “Denver”
  • Cebuano: “Denver”
  • Central Kurdish: “دێنڤەر”
  • Chavacano: “Denver”
  • Chechen: “Денвер”
  • Cheyenne: “Denver”
  • Chinese: “Denver”
  • Chinese: “丹佛”
  • Cornish: “Denver, Kolorado”
  • Cornish: “Denver”
  • Corsican: “Denver”
  • Croatian: “Denver”
  • Czech: “Denver”
  • Dagbani: “Denver”
  • Danish: “Denver”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Denver”
  • Dutch: “Denver”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دينفر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دينڤر”
  • Esperanto: “Denvero”
  • Estonian: “Denver”
  • Extremaduran: “Denver”
  • Faroese: “Denver”
  • Finnish: “Denver”
  • French: “Denver”
  • French: “Municipalité et comté de Denver”
  • Galician: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Galician: “Denver”
  • Gan Chinese: “丹佛”
  • Georgian: “დენვერი”
  • German: “Denver, Colorado”
  • German: “Denver”
  • Gilaki: “دنور (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “دنور”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂”
  • Greek: “Ντένβερ, Κολοράντο”
  • Greek: “Ντένβερ”
  • Gujarati: “ડેનવર”
  • Haitian: “Denver, Kolorado”
  • Haitian: “Denver”
  • Hausa: “Denver”
  • Hawaiian: “Denver”
  • Hebrew: “דנוור”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז דנוור”
  • Hindi: “डॅनवर”
  • Hindi: “डेनवर”
  • Hindi: “डेन्वर”
  • Hungarian: “Denver”
  • Icelandic: “Denver”
  • Ido: “Denver”
  • Iloko: “Denver”
  • Inari Sami: “Denver”
  • Indonesian: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Indonesian: “Denver”
  • Interlingua: “Denver”
  • Interlingue: “Denver”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑏᓂᕖᕐ”
  • Irish: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Irish: “Denver”
  • Italian: “Denver”
  • Japanese: “デンヴァー”
  • Japanese: “デンバー”
  • Kabyle: “Denver”
  • Kannada: “ಡೆನ್ವರ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Денвер”
  • Kazakh: “Денвер”
  • Kazakh: “Дэнвер”
  • Kikuyu: “Denver”
  • Kirghiz: “Денвер”
  • Kirghiz: “Дэнвер”
  • Komering: “Denver”
  • Korean: “덴버”
  • Kurdish: “Denver”
  • Ladin: “Denver”
  • Ladino: “Denver”
  • Lao: “ເດນເວີ”
  • Latin: “Denverium”
  • Latvian: “Denvera”
  • Ligurian: “Denver”
  • Lingala: “Denver”
  • Lithuanian: “Denveris”
  • Low German: “Denver County”
  • Low German: “Denver”
  • Luxembourgish: “Denver”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Denver”
  • Macedonian: “Денвер”
  • Malagasy: “Denver”
  • Malay: “Denver”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെൻവർ”
  • Maltese: “Denver”
  • Marathi: “डेन्व्हर”
  • Mazanderani: “دنور”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Denver”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Denver”
  • Mingrelian: “დენვერი”
  • Mirandese: “Denver”
  • Moksha: “Дэнвэр”
  • Mongolian: “Денвер”
  • Navajo: “Kʼįįshzhíníńlį́”
  • Newari: “डेन्भर”
  • Newari: “देन्भर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Denver”
  • Northern Luri: “دنور”
  • Northern Sami: “Denver”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Denver”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Denver”
  • Norwegian: “Denver”
  • Novial: “Denver”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Denver”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Denaford”
  • Ossetian: “Денвер”
  • Pali: “डेन्भर”
  • Pampanga: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Pampanga: “Denver”
  • Panjabi: “ਡੈਨਵਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Denver”
  • Persian: “دنور، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “دنور”
  • Piemontese: “Denver”
  • Polish: “Denver”
  • Portuguese: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Portuguese: “Denver”
  • Pushto: “ډنور”
  • Quechua: “Denver”
  • Romanian: “Denver”
  • Russian: “Денвер”
  • Samogitian: “Denverės”
  • Sanskrit: “डेन्वर्”
  • Sardinian: “Denver”
  • Scots: “Denver”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Denver”
  • Serbian: “Mile High City”
  • Serbian: “Град и округ Денвер”
  • Serbian: “Денвер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Denver”
  • Sicilian: “Denver”
  • Silesian: “Denver”
  • Sindhi: “ڊينور”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙන්වර්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Denver”
  • Slovak: “Denver”
  • Slovenian: “Denver, Kolorado”
  • Slovenian: “Denver”
  • Somali: “Denver”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دنور”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Milla Alta”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Reina de las Llanuras”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Reina del Oeste”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad y Condado de Denver”
  • Spanish: “Denver (Colorado)”
  • Spanish: “Denver”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Denver”
  • Swahili: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Swahili: “Denver”
  • Swedish: “Denver”
  • Tagalog: “Denber”
  • Tagalog: “Denver”
  • Tajik: “Денвер”
  • Talysh: “Denver”
  • Tamil: “டென்வர்”
  • Tatar: “Денвер”
  • Telugu: “డెన్వర్”
  • Thai: “เดนเวอร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Denver”
  • Turkish: “Denver, Colo.”
  • Turkish: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Turkish: “Denver”
  • Turkmen: “Denwer”
  • Twi: “Denver”
  • Twi: “Denwer”
  • Uighur: “Dénwér”
  • Ukrainian: “Денвер”
  • Urdu: “ڈینور، کولوراڈو”
  • Urdu: “ڈینور”
  • Uzbek: “Denver”
  • Venetian: “Denver”
  • Veps: “Denver”
  • Vietnamese: “Denver”
  • Vlax Romani: “Denver”
  • Volapük: “Denver”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Denver”
  • Welsh: “Denver, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Denver”
  • Western Frisian: “Denver”
  • Western Mari: “Денвер”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈینور”
  • Wu Chinese: “丹佛”
  • Yakut: “Денвер”
  • Yiddish: “דענווער”
  • Yoruba: “Denver”
  • Yue Chinese: “丹佛”
  • “Denver”
  • “Denveris”
  • “ma tomo Tenwa”

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