Fort McPherson
Fort McPherson is a small Gwich'in community of about 650 people in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located along the Dempster Highway, it is the only major settlement between the Yukon-Northwest Territories border and Inuvik.Photo: Jmh649, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 700 residents
- Description: hamlet in the Northwest Territories, Canada
- Also known as: “Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories”
Fort McPherson
- Categories: territorial hamlet of Canada and locality
- Location: Fort McPherson, Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
67.437° or 67° 26′ 13″ northLongitude
-134.8824° or 134° 52′ 57″ westPopulation
700Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)IATA airport code
ZFMUnited Nations Location Code
CA ZFMOpen location code
94V7C4P9+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2662703998OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
5955898Wikidata ID
Q1014119
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Mari—“Fort McPherson” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Fort McPherson”
- Cebuano: “Fort McPherson”
- Chinese: “麥克弗森堡”
- Chinese: “麦克弗森堡”
- Dutch: “Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories”
- French: “Fort McPherson”
- German: “Fort McPherson”
- Italian: “Fort McPherson”
- Polish: “Fort McPherson”
- Portuguese: “Fort McPherson”
- Russian: “Форт-Макферсон”
- Spanish: “Fort McPherson Territorios del Noroeste”
- Spanish: “Fort McPherson, Territorios del Noroeste”
- Spanish: “Fort McPherson”
- Swedish: “Fort McPherson”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Макферсон”
- Western Mari: “Телит-Же”
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