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Fairbanks North Star Borough

Fairbanks

Fairbanks is a town in . With 31,000 inhabitants, and 98,000 in , it is 's second-largest city. A junction of several major highways, will be a likely stop of most visitors to the state.
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  • Type: City with 32,500 residents
  • Description: city in Alaska, USA
  • Also known as: “Barnettes Cache”, “Fairbanks, AK”, and “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Postal codes: 99701, 99706-99712, 99775, and 99790

Places of Interest

Highlights include Big Dipper Ice Arena and Bentley Mall.

Stadium
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The , colloquially known as "The Big Dipper", is a multi-purpose arena in Fairbanks, Alaska. The arena is owned and operated by the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

Shopping center
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is an enclosed community located in Fairbanks, , United States. It is notable as the northernmost mall in both the United States and .

Town hall
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The Patrick B. Cole Fairbanks City Hall, also known as Main School and Old Main for its previous use as a school building, is located at 800 Cushman Street in downtown Fairbanks, Alaska.

Fairbanks

Latitude
64.8378° or 64° 50′ 16″ north
Longitude
-147.7167° or 147° 43′ west
Population
32,500
Elevation
446 feet (136 metres)
IATA airport code
FAI
United Nations Location Code
US FAI
Open location code
93PJR7QM+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150918186
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5861897
Wiki­data ID
Q79638
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Fairbanks” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fairbanks”
  • Arabic: “فيربانكس”
  • Aragonese: “Fairbanks”
  • Armenian: “Ֆերբանկս”
  • Asturian: “Fairbanks”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fairbanks”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fairbenks”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ferbanks”
  • Azerbaijani: “Feyrbanks”
  • Basque: “Fairbanks”
  • Bavarian: “Fairbanks”
  • Belarusian: “Фэрбанкс”
  • Bengali: “ফেয়ারব্যাংকস”
  • Breton: “Fairbanks”
  • Bulgarian: “Феърбанкс”
  • Catalan: “Fairbanks”
  • Cebuano: “Fairbanks”
  • Central Kurdish: “فەیربانکس، ئالاسکا”
  • Chamorro: “Fairbanks”
  • Chechen: “Фербанкс”
  • Chinese: “Fairbanks”
  • Chinese: “費爾明斯克”
  • Chinese: “費爾班克斯”
  • Chinese: “费尔班克斯”
  • Cornish: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Cornish: “Fairbanks”
  • Croatian: “Fairbanks, Aljaska”
  • Croatian: “Fairbanks”
  • Czech: “Fairbanks”
  • Dagbani: “Fairbanks”
  • Danish: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Danish: “Fairbanks”
  • Dutch: “Fairbanks”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيربانكس”
  • Esperanto: “Fairbanks”
  • Estonian: “Fairbanks”
  • Faroese: “Fairbanks”
  • Finnish: “Fairbanks”
  • French: “Fairbanks”
  • Galician: “Fairbanks”
  • Georgian: “ფერბენკსი”
  • German: “Fairbanks”
  • Gilaki: “فیربنکس”
  • Greek: “Φαίρμπανκς”
  • Greek: “Φέρμπανκς”
  • Gujarati: “ફેરબેન્ક્સ”
  • Haitian: “Fairbanks”
  • Hebrew: “פיירבנקס”
  • Hindi: “फेयरबैंक्स”
  • Hungarian: “Fairbanks”
  • Icelandic: “Fairbanks”
  • Ido: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Ido: “Fairbanks”
  • Indonesian: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Indonesian: “Fairbanks”
  • Interlingua: “Fairbanks”
  • Inupiaq: “Atqasugiksuaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Fairbanks”
  • Irish: “Fairbanks, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Fairbanks”
  • Italian: “Fairbanks”
  • Japanese: “フェアバンクス”
  • Kannada: “ಫೇರ್ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “페어뱅크스”
  • Ladin: “Fairbanks”
  • Latvian: “Fērbenksa”
  • Lithuanian: “Ferbanksas”
  • Lombard: “Fairbanks”
  • Macedonian: “Фербенкс”
  • Malagasy: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Fairbanks”
  • Malay: “Fairbanks”
  • Malayalam: “ഫെയർബാങ്ക്സ്”
  • Marathi: “फेरबँक्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fairbanks”
  • Mingrelian: “ფერბენქსი”
  • Newari: “फेयरब्यांक्स (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “फेयरब्याङ्क्स (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “फेयरब्याङ्क्स, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “फेयरब्याङ्क्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fairbanks”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fairbanks”
  • Norwegian: “Fairbanks”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fairbanks”
  • Persian: “فایربانکس”
  • Persian: “فربنکس”
  • Persian: “فیربنکس”
  • Polish: “Fairbanks”
  • Portuguese: “Fairbancs”
  • Portuguese: “Fairbanks”
  • Romanian: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Romanian: “Fairbanks”
  • Russian: “Фербэнкс”
  • Russian: “Фэрбанкс”
  • Russian: “Фэрбенкс”
  • Russian: “Фэрбэнкс”
  • Scots: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Scots: “Fairbanks”
  • Serbian: “Fairbanks”
  • Serbian: “Фербанкс”
  • Serbian: “Фербенкс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fairbanks”
  • Sinhala: “ෆෙයාබෑන්ක්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Fairbanks”
  • Slovenian: “Fairbanks”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فربنکس”
  • Spanish: “Fairbanks (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Fairbanks”
  • Swedish: “Fairbanks”
  • Tagalog: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Tagalog: “Fairbanks”
  • Talysh: “Ferbanks”
  • Tamil: “பிஆர்பாங்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Фербанкс”
  • Tatar: “Фербәңкс”
  • Telugu: “ఫెయిర్ బ్యాంక్స్”
  • Thai: “แฟร์แบงส์”
  • Turkish: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Fairbanks”
  • Ukrainian: “Фербанкс”
  • Ukrainian: “Фербенкс”
  • Urdu: “فیئر بینکس، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “فیئر بینکس”
  • Uzbek: “Fairbanks”
  • Vietnamese: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Vietnamese: “Fairbanks”
  • Volapük: “Fairbanks”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fairbanks”
  • Welsh: “Fairbanks, Alaska”
  • Welsh: “Fairbanks”
  • Western Frisian: “Fairbanks”
  • Western Mari: “Фэрбенкс”
  • Wu Chinese: “费尔班克斯 (阿拉斯加州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “费尔班克斯（阿拉斯加州）”
  • Yakut: “Фэрбенкс”
  • Yue Chinese: “費爾班克斯”

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