Fernie
Fernie is a town of 5,200 people in British Columbia that is fully encircled by the Rocky Mountains. It began as a mining town, but its location in the Canadian Rockies has led to the development of the Fernie Alpine Resort.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 5,250 residents
- Description: city in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Fernie, British Columbia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coal Creek.
Coal Creek
Locality
Coal Creek is a ghost town near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. During the 1950s, residents left the town due to the closure of a mine. Some parts of the town remain, but most have been overtaken by forest.
Fernie
- Categories: city in British Columbia and locality
- Location: East Kootenays, Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.5042° or 49° 30′ 15″ northLongitude
-115.0629° or 115° 3′ 46″ westPopulation
5,250Elevation
996 metres (3,268 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA FNIOpen location code
85X6GW3P+MVOpenStreetMap ID
node 51969585OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Fernie” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Fernie”
- Bulgarian: “Ферние”
- Catalan: “Fernie”
- Cebuano: “Fernie”
- Chinese: “弗尼”
- Czech: “Fernie”
- Danish: “Fernie”
- Dimli (individual language): “Fernie, Kolombiyay Britanya”
- Dutch: “Fernie”
- French: “Fernie”
- German: “Fernie”
- Hebrew: “פרני”
- Italian: “Fernie”
- Japanese: “ファーニー”
- Korean: “퍼니”
- Persian: “فرنی، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Polish: “Fernie”
- Portuguese: “Fernie”
- Russian: “Ферни”
- Serbian: “Ферни (Британска Колумбија)”
- Serbian: “Ферни”
- Slovak: “Fernie”
- Spanish: “Fernie”
- Swedish: “Fernie”
- Turkish: “Fernie”
- Ukrainian: “Ферні”
- Urdu: “فرنی، برٹش کولمبیا”
- Volapük: “Fernie”
- Western Panjabi: “فرنی”
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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 “Fernie”. Photo: Jmh649, CC BY-SA 3.0.