Massachusetts
Bristol
City of Fall River

Fall River

In the region of , where the Taunton River empties into Mount Hope Bay, stands Fall River- the "Spindle City". Not to be overshadowed by nearby and , Fall River offers visitors unique attractions that are absent from its two larger neighbors.
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  • Type: City with 88,900 residents
  • Description: city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Border City Village”, “Fall River Village”, “Fall River, MA”, “Fall River, Massachusetts”, “Pocasset”, and “The Border City”
  • Postal codes: 02720-02724

Places of Interest

Highlights include USS Massachusetts and USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr..

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is the third of four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, they took advantage…

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is a former United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer. The ship was named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, son of the former U.S.

Church
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The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, colloquially known as Saint Mary's Cathedral, is a historic church located in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Swansea.

Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet.

Fall River

Latitude
41.7011° or 41° 42′ 4″ north
Longitude
-71.1546° or 71° 9′ 17″ west
Population
88,900
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US FAV
Open location code
87HCPR2W+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2943925724
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4936159
Wiki­data ID
Q49194
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Fall River” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فول ريفر”
  • Basque: “Fall River”
  • Bengali: “ফল রিভার”
  • Catalan: “Fall River”
  • Cebuano: “Fall River”
  • Chamorro: “Fall River”
  • Chechen: “Фолл-Ривер”
  • Chinese: “Fall River”
  • Chinese: “法尔河市”
  • Chinese: “瀑河城”
  • Chinese: “福尔里弗”
  • Chinese: “福爾里弗”
  • Czech: “Fall River”
  • Dagbani: “Fall River”
  • Danish: “Fall River”
  • Dutch: “Fall River”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فول ريفر”
  • Esperanto: “Fall River”
  • Finnish: “Fall River”
  • French: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • French: “Fall River”
  • Galician: “Fall River”
  • German: “Fall River”
  • Gilaki: “فال ريور”
  • Greek: “Φολ Ρίβερ”
  • Gujarati: “ફોલ રિવર”
  • Haitian: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Fall River”
  • Hebrew: “פול ריבר”
  • Hindi: “फॉल रिवर”
  • Hungarian: “Fall River”
  • Indonesian: “Fall River”
  • Irish: “Fall River”
  • Italian: “Fall River”
  • Japanese: “フォール・リヴァー”
  • Japanese: “フォールリバー”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಲ್ ರಿವರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Фол Ривэ”
  • Kirghiz: “Фол Ривэ”
  • Korean: “폴리버”
  • Ladin: “Fall River”
  • Latin: “Fall River”
  • Latvian: “Folriversa”
  • Lithuanian: “Fol Riversas”
  • Malagasy: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Fall River”
  • Malay: “Fall River”
  • Marathi: “फॉल रिव्हर”
  • Mazanderani: “فال ریور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fall River”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fall River”
  • Norwegian: “Fall River”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fall River”
  • Persian: “فال ریور، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “فال ریور”
  • Polish: “Fall River”
  • Portuguese: “Fall River”
  • Russian: “Фолл-Ривер”
  • Serbian: “Фол Ривер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fall River”
  • Silesian: “Fall River”
  • Sinhala: “ෆෝල් ගංගාව”
  • Slovak: “Fall River”
  • Slovenian: “Fall River”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فال ریور، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Fall River (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Fall River”
  • Swahili: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Fall River”
  • Swedish: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Fall River”
  • Talysh: “Foll River”
  • Tamil: “பால் நதி”
  • Tatar: “Фолл-Ривер (Массачусетс)”
  • Tatar: “Фолл-Ривер”
  • Telugu: “ఫాల్ రివర్”
  • Thai: “ฟอลล์ ริเวอร์”
  • Turkish: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Fall River”
  • Ukrainian: “Фолл-Ривер”
  • Ukrainian: “Фолл-Рівер”
  • Urdu: “فال ریور، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “فال ریور، میساچوسیٹس”
  • Uzbek: “Fall River”
  • Vietnamese: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Fall River”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Fall River”
  • Volapük: “Fall River”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fall River”
  • Welsh: “Fall River, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Fall River”
  • “Fall River”

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