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Durham
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Durham

Of the three cities that make up 's , Durham has traditionally been the grittier, more working-class one. A city of about 283,500 residents in 2020, Durham's early wealth was built on tobacco and textiles, with a vibrant African-American community that once made the city a center for Black culture.
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  • Type: City with 284,000 residents
  • Description: county seat of Durham County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Durham, NC”, “Durham, North Carolina”, and “Durhamsville”
  • Postal codes: 27701-27713, 27715, 27717, and 27722

Places of Interest

Highlights include Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass and Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

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The is a railroad bridge in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Built in 1940, the bridge carries passenger and freight trains over South Gregson Street in downtown Durham and functions as the northbound access to the nearby .

Stadium
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is a 10,000-seat ballpark in Durham, North Carolina, that is home to the Durham Bulls, the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball.

Railway station
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is an Amtrak station located in Durham, North Carolina. It is served by two passenger trains: the Carolinian and the Piedmont. The street address is 601 West Main Street and is located in West Village in downtown Durham.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include American Tobacco Historic District and Joyland.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic tobacco factory complex and national historic district located in Durham, .

Neighborhood
is an unincorporated community in , , United States, on North Carolina Highway 98, east of its junction with U.S. Route 70. Most of was annexed by the city of Durham in 1966.

Neighborhood
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Bragtown is a neighborhood located in the northeastern corner of Durham, North Carolina. The community is centered on N. Roxboro Street and the Old Oxford Highway.

Durham

Latitude
35.9967° or 35° 59′ 48″ north
Longitude
-78.9018° or 78° 54′ 7″ west
Population
284,000
Elevation
404 feet (123 metres)
Inception
1869
IATA airport code
RDU
United Nations Location Code
US DUR
Open location code
8773X3WX+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158605665
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4464368
Wiki­data ID
Q49229
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Durham” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “درم”
  • Arabic: “دورهام”
  • Armenian: “Դարեմ”
  • Armenian: “Դարհեմ”
  • Asturian: “Durham”
  • Azerbaijani: “Durham”
  • Basque: “Durham”
  • Belarusian: “Дарэм”
  • Bengali: “ডারাম, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bengali: “ডারাম”
  • Breton: “Durham”
  • Bulgarian: “Дърам”
  • Catalan: “Durham”
  • Cebuano: “Durham (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, North Carolina)”
  • Cebuano: “Durham”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەرھام”
  • Chechen: “Дарем”
  • Chinese: “北卡羅萊納州的德罕”
  • Chinese: “德罕”
  • Chinese: “达勒姆”
  • Cornish: “Durham, Karolina Gledh”
  • Cornish: “Durham”
  • Czech: “Durham”
  • Danish: “Durham”
  • Dutch: “Durham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دورام”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دورهام”
  • Esperanto: “Durham”
  • Estonian: “Durham”
  • Finnish: “Durham”
  • French: “Durham”
  • Galician: “Durham, Carolina do Norte”
  • Galician: “Durham”
  • Georgian: “დარემი”
  • German: “Durham”
  • Gilaki: “درم”
  • Greek: “Ντάρεμ”
  • Greek: “Ντάρχαμ”
  • Gujarati: “ડ્યુરમ”
  • Haitian: “Durham, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hebrew: “דרהאם”
  • Hindi: “डरहम”
  • Hungarian: “Durham”
  • Icelandic: “Durham”
  • Indonesian: “Durham, Carolina Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Durham”
  • Irish: “Durham, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Durham”
  • Italian: “Durham”
  • Japanese: “ダーラム”
  • Kannada: “ಡರ್ಹಾಮ್”
  • Korean: “더럼”
  • Ladin: “Durham”
  • Latvian: “Darema”
  • Lithuanian: “Daramas”
  • Lithuanian: “Daremas”
  • Malagasy: “Durham, North Carolina”
  • Malagasy: “Durham”
  • Malay: “Durham”
  • Marathi: “ड्युरॅम”
  • Moksha: “Дарэм”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Durham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Durham i Nord-Carolina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Durham”
  • Norwegian: “Durham”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Durham”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dūnholm (Norþcarolīna)”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dūnholm”
  • Ossetian: “Дарем”
  • Persian: “دورهام”
  • Piemontese: “Durham”
  • Polish: “Durham”
  • Portuguese: “Durham”
  • Romanian: “Durham, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Durham”
  • Russian: “Дарем”
  • Scots: “Durham”
  • Serbian: “Дарам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Durham, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Durham”
  • Silesian: “Durham”
  • Sinhala: “ඩර්හැම්”
  • Slovak: “Durham”
  • Slovenian: “Durham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دورهام، قوزئی کارولینا”
  • Spanish: “Durham (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Durham”
  • Swahili: “Durham, North Carolina”
  • Swahili: “Durham”
  • Swedish: “Durham, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Durham”
  • Tagalog: “Durham, North Carolina”
  • Tagalog: “Durham”
  • Tajik: “Дурҳом”
  • Tamil: “டர்ஹாம்”
  • Tatar: “Дарем (АКШ)”
  • Tatar: “Дарем”
  • Telugu: “డర్ హమ్”
  • Thai: “เดอแรม”
  • Turkish: “Durham, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Durham”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарем”
  • Urdu: “ڈرہم، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “Durham”
  • Vietnamese: “Durham, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Durham, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Durham”
  • Volapük: “Durham”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Durham, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Durham”
  • Welsh: “Durham, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Durham”
  • Wu Chinese: “达勒姆（北卡罗来纳州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “达勒姆”
  • “Durham”

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