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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 37,000 residents
  • Description: borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Fort Lee, New Jersey”, “Fort Lee, NJ”, and “Pickletown”
  • Postal code: 07024
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include George Washington Bridge and Little Red Lighthouse.

Bridge
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 .

Hospital
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is the academic medical center of Columbia University and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Washington Heights and Palisades Park.

Quarter
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of in . It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.

Town
is a borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 20,292, an increase of 670 from the 2010 census count of 19,622, which in turn reflected an increase of 2,549 from the 17,073 counted in the 2000 census.

Village
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is a borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 9,304, an increase of 367 from the 2010 census count of 8,937, which in turn reflected an increase of 23 from the 8,914 counted in the 2000 census.

Fort Lee

Latitude
40.8509° or 40° 51′ 3″ north
Longitude
-73.9701° or 73° 58′ 13″ west
Population
37,000
Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)
United Nations Location Code
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: “Fort Lee”
  • Chinese: “利堡”
  • Chinese: “新泽西李堡”
  • Chinese: “李堡”
  • Chinese: “里爾堡”
  • 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 (Nueva Jersey)”
  • 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, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Fort Lee”
  • Welsh: “Fort Lee, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Fort Lee”

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