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Elizabeth is a city in and the county seat of , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the city retained its ranking as the state's fourth-most-populous city behind neighboring , and , with…
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  • Type: City with 126,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Union County, New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Elizabeth Town”, “Elizabeth Towne”, “Elizabeth, New Jersey”, “Elizabeth, NJ”, and “Elizabets Towne”
  • Postal codes: 07201, 07202, 07207, and 07208
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elizabeth station and Union County Courthouse.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elizabeth is a commuter railroad station on the Northeast Corridor in the city of Elizabeth, . Located between Broad Street and West Grand Street in the Midtown district of Elizabeth, the station serves trains of NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and North Jersey Coast Line.

Courthouse
Photo: Dagrecco1982, Public domain.
The is the county courthouse for located in the county seat of Elizabeth. The 17 story, 238 ft tall Neoclassical building, completed in 1931, is the tallest in the city.

Library
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The is the free public library of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Serving a population of approximately 127,558, its collection contains 342,305 volumes, circulating 190,581 items annually from its four locations.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roselle and Hillside.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a borough located in in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 22,695, an increase of 1,610 from the 2010 census count of 21,085, which in turn reflected a decline of 189 from the 21,274 counted in the 2000 census.

Town
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is a township in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 22,456, an increase of 1,052 from the 2010 census count of 21,404, which in turn reflected a decline of 343 from the 21,747 counted in the 2000 census.

Neighborhood
is a coastal area in the northwestern corner of , , , . It is located on near the entrances the Kill van Kull in the east and Arthur Kill in the west.

Elizabeth

Latitude
40.664° or 40° 39′ 50″ north
Longitude
-74.2107° or 74° 12′ 39″ west
Population
126,000
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US EZA
Open location code
87G7MQ7Q+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158814887
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5097598
Wiki­data ID
Q138311
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Elizabeth” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إليزابيث”
  • Arabic: “اليزابيث نيو جيرسي”
  • Armenian: “Էլիզաբեթ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Elizabet”
  • Basque: “Elizabeth”
  • Bavarian: “Elizabeth”
  • Belarusian: “Элізабет”
  • Bengali: “এলিজাবেথ”
  • Breton: “Elizabeth”
  • Bulgarian: “Елизабет”
  • Catalan: “Elizabeth (New Jersey)”
  • Catalan: “Elizabeth (Nova Jersey)”
  • Catalan: “Elizabeth”
  • Cebuano: “Elizabeth”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێلیزابێت، نیوجێرزی”
  • Chechen: “Элизабет”
  • Chinese: “伊丽莎白”
  • Chinese: “伊利薩白”
  • Chinese: “伊莉莎白”
  • Chinese: “伊麗莎白 (新澤西州)”
  • Chinese: “伊麗莎白”
  • Cornish: “Elizabeth, Jersi Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Elizabeth”
  • Czech: “Elizabeth”
  • Dagbani: “Elizabeth”
  • Danish: “Elizabeth”
  • Dutch: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Dutch: “Elizabeth”
  • Dutch: “Elizabethtown”
  • Esperanto: “Elizabeth”
  • Esperanto: “Elizabeto”
  • Estonian: “Elizabeth”
  • Finnish: “Elizabeth”
  • French: “Elizabeth”
  • Galician: “Elizabeth”
  • Georgian: “ელიზაბეთი”
  • German: “Elizabeth”
  • Gilaki: “اليزابت (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “اليزابت”
  • Greek: “Ελίζαμπεθ”
  • Gujarati: “એલિઝાબેથ”
  • Haitian: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Elizabeth”
  • Hebrew: “אליזבת, ניו ג’רזי”
  • Hebrew: “אליזבת”
  • Hindi: “एलिजाबेथ”
  • Hungarian: “Elizabeth”
  • Icelandic: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Icelandic: “Elizabeth”
  • Indonesian: “Elizabeth”
  • Interlingua: “Elizabeth”
  • Irish: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Irish: “Elizabeth”
  • Italian: “Elizabeth”
  • Italian: “Elizabethtown”
  • Japanese: “エリザベス”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲಿಜಬೆತ್”
  • Kazakh: “Элизабэт”
  • Kirghiz: “Элизабэт”
  • Korean: “엘리자베스”
  • Ladin: “Elizabeth”
  • Latvian: “Elizabeta”
  • Latvian: “Elizabeth”
  • Lithuanian: “Elizabetas”
  • Low German: “Elizabeth”
  • Luxembourgish: “Elizabeth”
  • Malay: “Elizabeth”
  • Malayalam: “എലിസബത്ത്”
  • Marathi: “एलिझाबेथ”
  • Mazanderani: “الیزابت (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “الیزابت”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elizabeth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elizabeth i New Jersey”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elizabeth”
  • Norwegian: “Elizabeth”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Elizabeth”
  • Persian: “الیزابت، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “الیزابت”
  • Piemontese: “Elizabeth (New Jersey)”
  • Piemontese: “Elizabeth”
  • Polish: “Elizabeth”
  • Portuguese: “Elizabeth”
  • Romanian: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Romanian: “Elizabeth”
  • Russian: “Элизабес”
  • Russian: “Элизабет”
  • Scots: “Elizabeth”
  • Serbian: “Елизабет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Elizabeth”
  • Silesian: “Elizabeth”
  • Sinhala: “එලිසබෙත්”
  • Slovak: “Elizabeth”
  • Slovenian: “Elizabeth”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الیزابت، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Elizabeth (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Elizabeth”
  • Swahili: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Swahili: “Elizabeth”
  • Swedish: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Swedish: “Elizabeth”
  • Swiss German: “Elizabeth”
  • Tagalog: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Tagalog: “Elizabeth”
  • Tamil: “எலிசபெத்”
  • Tatar: “Элизабет (АКШ)”
  • Tatar: “Элизабет”
  • Telugu: “ఎలిజబెత్”
  • Thai: “อลิซาเบธ”
  • Turkish: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Turkish: “Elizabeth”
  • Ukrainian: “Елізабет”
  • Urdu: “الزبتھ، نیو جرسی”
  • Urdu: “الزبتھ”
  • Vietnamese: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Vietnamese: “Elizabeth”
  • Volapük: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Elizabeth”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Elizabeth”
  • Welsh: “Elizabeth, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Elizabeth”
  • Yiddish: “עליזאבעט”
  • “Elizabeth”
  • “Elizabeth (New Jersey)”

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