Fort Nelson

Fort Nelson is a town of about 3,400 people and stopping point along the Alaska Highway in British Columbia's . It is located within Northern Rockies Regional Municipality.
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  • Type: Town with 3,370 residents
  • Description: human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: Fort Nelson, British Columbia

Fort Nelson

Latitude
58.8062° or 58° 48′ 22″ north
Longitude
-122.6943° or 122° 41′ 39″ west
Population
3,370
Elevation
410 metres (1,345 feet)
IATA airport code
YYE
United Nations Location Code
CA FNE
Open location code
94CVR844+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52555977
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5955902
Wiki­data ID
Q606045
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Swedish—“Fort Nelson” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Fort Nelson
  • Arabic: حصن نلسون، كولومبيا البريطانية
  • Catalan: Fort Nelson
  • Cebuano: Fort Nelson
  • Chinese: 纳尔逊堡
  • Dutch: Fort Nelson
  • Egyptian Arabic: حصن نلسون
  • French: Fort Nelson
  • German: Fort Nelson
  • Italian: Fort Nelson
  • Japanese: フォート・ネルソン
  • Persian: فورت نلسون
  • Portuguese: Fort Nelson
  • Spanish: Fort Nelson
  • Swedish: Fort Nelson

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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 “Fort Nelson”. Photo: CanadianEman, CC BY-SA 3.0.