Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes is a city in and the county seat of Becker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 9,869 at the 2020 census. Its unofficial population during the summer is higher, estimated by citizens to peak at 13,000, due to seasonal residents and tourists.
- Type: Town with 9,980 residents
- Description: city in Becker County, Minnesota, United States
- Also known as: “City of Detroit Lakes”, “Detroit Lakes (Minnesota)”, “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”, “Detroit Lakes, MN”, “Детроит Лакес”, “دیترویت لیکز، مینه سوتا”, and “دیترویت لیکز، مینهٔ سوتا”
- Postal codes: 56501 and 56502
Places of Interest
Highlights: Detroit Lakes station and Detroit Lakes Airport.
Detroit Lakes
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Detroit Lakes, Becker, Northwestern Minnesota, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.8172° or 46° 49′ 2″ north
Longitude
-95.8453° or 95° 50′ 43″ west
Population
9,980
Elevation
1,371 feet (418 metres)
IATA airport code
DTL
UN/LOCODE
US DTL
Open location code
86R6R583+VV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Detroit Lakes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديترويت ليكس”
- Basque: “Detroit Lakes”
- Catalan: “Detroit Lakes”
- Cebuano: “Detroit Lakes”
- Chechen: “Детройт-Лейкс”
- Chinese: “底特律莱克斯”
- Chinese: “底特律萊克斯”
- Czech: “Detroit Lakes”
- Danish: “Detroit Lakes”
- Dutch: “Detroit Lakes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديترويت ليكس”
- French: “Detroit Lakes”
- German: “Detroit Lakes”
- Gilaki: “ديترؤیت لیکس (مينسؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “ديترؤیت لیکس”
- Greek: “Ντιτρόιτ Λέικς”
- Haitian: “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”
- Haitian: “Detroit Lakes”
- Hungarian: “Detroit Lakes”
- Ido: “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”
- Ido: “Detroit Lakes”
- Irish: “Detroit Lakes”
- Italian: “Detroit Lakes”
- Japanese: “デトロイト・レイクス”
- Kazakh: “Detroýt Léýks”
- Kazakh: “Детройт Лэйкс”
- Kazakh: “دەترويت لەيكس”
- Kirghiz: “Детройт Лэйкс”
- Korean: “디트로이트레이크스”
- Ladin: “Detroit Lakes”
- Macedonian: “Детроит Езера, Минесота”
- Macedonian: “Детроит Езера”
- Malagasy: “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”
- Malagasy: “Detroit Lakes”
- Mazanderani: “دیترویت لیکس (مینهسوتا)”
- Mazanderani: “دیترویت لیکس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Detroit Lakes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Detroit Lakes”
- Norwegian: “Detroit Lakes”
- Persian: “دیترویت لیکس، مینهسوتا”
- Persian: “دیترویت لیکس”
- Polish: “Detroit Lakes”
- Portuguese: “Detroit Lakes”
- Russian: “Детройт-Лейкс”
- Serbian: “Детроит Лејкс”
- Serbian: “Дитројт Лејкс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Detroit Lakes”
- Slovak: “Detroit Lakes”
- Slovenian: “Detroit Lakes”
- South Azerbaijani: “دیترویت لیکس، مینهسوتا”
- Spanish: “Detroit Lakes”
- Swedish: “Detroit Lakes”
- Tatar: “Детройт-Лейкс”
- Turkish: “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”
- Turkish: “Detroit Lakes”
- Ukrainian: “Детройт-Лейкс”
- Urdu: “ڈیٹروئٹ لیکس، مینیسوٹا”
- Urdu: “ڈیٹروئٹ لیکس”
- Uzbek: “Detroit Lakes”
- Vietnamese: “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”
- Vietnamese: “Detroit Lakes”
- Volapük: “Detroit Lakes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Detroit Lakes”
- Welsh: “Detroit Lakes, Minnesota”
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