Fort McPherson
Fort McPherson is a small Gwich'in community of about 650 people in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located along the Dempster Highway and near the Peel River, it is the only major settlement between the Yukon-Northwest Territories border and Inuvik.
- Village with about 700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (140 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ZFM
- …is also known as “Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories”
- Description: hamlet in the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Latitude
67.437° or 67° 26′ 13″ north
Longitude
-134.8824° or 134° 52′ 57″ west
UN/LOCODE
CA ZFM
Open location code
94V7C4P9+Q2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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”
- Dutch: “Fort McPherson”
- 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”
- Swedish: “Fort McPherson”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Макферсон”
- Western Mari: “Телит-Же”
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