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City of Ely

Ely

Ely is a town of 3,400 people in . Ely is best known as a popular entry point for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the International Wolf Center, and the North American Bear Center.
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  • Type: Town with 3,270 residents
  • Description: city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Ely”, “Ely, Minnesota”, and “Ely, MN”
  • Postal code: 55731

Ely

Latitude
47.9016° or 47° 54′ 6″ north
Longitude
-91.8572° or 91° 51′ 26″ west
Population
3,270
Elevation
1,430 feet (436 metres)
IATA airport code
LYU
United Nations Location Code
US LYU
Open location code
86VCW42V+J4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151499170
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5025627
Wiki­data ID
Q514934
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ely” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إلي”
  • Azerbaijani: “İli”
  • Basque: “Ely”
  • Catalan: “Ely”
  • Cebuano: “Ely”
  • Chechen: “Эли”
  • Chinese: “Ely”
  • Chinese: “伊利”
  • Czech: “Ely”
  • Dagbani: “Ely”
  • Danish: “Ely”
  • Dutch: “Ely”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الى”
  • Finnish: “Ely”
  • French: “Ely”
  • German: “Ely”
  • Gilaki: “الی (مينسؤتا)”
  • Gilaki: “الی”
  • Haitian: “Ely, Minnesota”
  • Haitian: “Ely”
  • Hebrew: “אלי”
  • Ido: “Ely, Minnesota”
  • Ido: “Ely”
  • Irish: “Ely”
  • Italian: “Ely”
  • Japanese: “イーリー”
  • Japanese: “エリー”
  • Kazakh: “Элай”
  • Kirghiz: “Элай”
  • Korean: “일리”
  • Ladin: “Ely”
  • Malagasy: “Ely, Minnesota”
  • Malagasy: “Ely”
  • Mazanderani: “الی (مینه‌سوتا)”
  • Mazanderani: “الی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ely”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ely”
  • Persian: “الی، مینه‌سوتا”
  • Persian: “الی”
  • Polish: “Ely”
  • Portuguese: “Ely”
  • Romanian: “Ely, Minnesota”
  • Romanian: “Ely”
  • Russian: “Или”
  • Serbian: “Или”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ely, Minnesota”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ely”
  • Silesian: “Ely”
  • Slovak: “Ely”
  • Slovenian: “Ely”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الی، مینه‌سوتا”
  • Spanish: “Ely (Minnesota)”
  • Spanish: “Ely”
  • Swedish: “Ely”
  • Tajik: “Илӣ”
  • Tatar: “Эли (Миннесота)”
  • Tatar: “Эли”
  • Turkish: “Ely, Minnesota”
  • Turkish: “Ely”
  • Ukrainian: “Елі”
  • Uzbek: “Ely”
  • Vietnamese: “Ely, Minnesota”
  • Vietnamese: “Ely”
  • Volapük: “Ely”
  • Welsh: “Ely, Minnesota‎”
  • Welsh: “Ely”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ely”. Photo: ShakataGaNai, CC BY-SA 3.0.