Fort Lee

Fort Lee is a city in . This town is comprised of a large residential community that includes Fort Lee natives, transplants from New York, and immigrants, especially from .
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  • Type: Town with 40,200 residents
  • Description: borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Fort Lee (Nueva Jersey)”, “Fort Lee, New Jersey”, “Fort Lee, NJ”, “Pickletown”, “利堡”, “新泽西李堡”, and “里爾堡”
  • Postal code: 07024
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights: George Washington Bridge and Little Red Lighthouse.

Bridge
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The is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the , connecting Fort Lee in , with the neighborhood of , New York City.

Lighthouse
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The , officially Jeffrey's Hook Light, is a small lighthouse located in Fort Washington Park along the in , , under the .

Museum
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The Cloisters is a museum in , straddling the neighborhoods of and , in , . The museum specializes in European medieval art and architecture, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods. is situated 2 miles northeast of Fort Lee.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Englewood and Teaneck.

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is a city in , . It borders on Fort Lee and Cliffs to its east, Tenafly to its north, to its west, and Leonia to its south.

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is a township in , . It is the suburb with the second highest population of the 70 towns in the county with 39,776 as of the 2010 United States Census.

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Upper is a large, relatively under-visited area that ranges from 125th Street to Inwood Hill Park on the west and from 96th Street northward on the east.

Fort Lee

Latitude
40.8509° or 40° 51′ 3″ north
Longitude
-73.9701° or 73° 58′ 13″ west
Population
40,200
Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US FOL
Open location code
87G8V22H+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158860946
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5098135
Wiki­data ID
Q1013261
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Fort Lee” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فورت لي”
  • Armenian: “Ֆորթ Լի”
  • Asturian: “Fort Lee”
  • Basque: “Fort Lee”
  • Belarusian: “Форт-Лі”
  • Bulgarian: “Форт Лий”
  • Catalan: “Fort Lee”
  • Cebuano: “Fort Lee”
  • Chechen: “Форт-Ли”
  • Chinese: “李堡”
  • Dagbani: “Fort Lee”
  • Danish: “Fort Lee”
  • Dutch: “Fort Lee”
  • Esperanto: “Fort Lee”
  • Finnish: “Fort Lee”
  • French: “Fort Lee”
  • German: “Fort Lee”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرت لی (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرت لی”
  • Haitian: “Fort Lee, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Fort Lee”
  • Hebrew: “פורט לי”
  • Hungarian: “Fort Lee”
  • Indonesian: “Fort Lee”
  • Irish: “Fort Lee”
  • Italian: “Fort Lee”
  • Japanese: “フォートリー”
  • Kazakh: “Fort Lï”
  • Kazakh: “Форт Ли”
  • Kazakh: “فورت لىي”
  • Kirghiz: “Форт Ли”
  • Korean: “포트리”
  • Ladin: “Fort Lee”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fort Lee”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Lee”
  • Norwegian: “Fort Lee”
  • Persian: “فورت لی، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “فورت لی”
  • Polish: “Fort Lee”
  • Portuguese: “Fort Lee”
  • Romanian: “Fort Lee, New Jersey”
  • Romanian: “Fort Lee”
  • Russian: “Форт Ли”
  • Russian: “Форт-Ли”
  • Serbian: “Форт Ли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Lee, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Lee”
  • Silesian: “Fort Lee”
  • Slovenian: “Fort Lee”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورت لی، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Fort Lee”
  • Swahili: “Fort Lee, New Jersey”
  • Swahili: “Fort Lee”
  • Swedish: “Fort Lee”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட் லீ, நியூ ஜேர்சி”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட் லீ”
  • Tatar: “Форт-Ли”
  • Turkish: “Fort Lee, New Jersey”
  • Turkish: “Fort Lee”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Лі”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ لی، نیو جرسی”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ لی”
  • Uzbek: “Fort Lee”
  • Volapük: “Fort Lee”
  • Welsh: “Fort Lee, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Fort Lee”

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