Fort Nelson
Fort Nelson is a town of about 3,400 people and stopping point along the Alaska Highway in British Columbia's Northern Rockies. It is located within Northern Rockies Regional Municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: CanadianEman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 3,370 residents
- Description: human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Fort Nelson, British Columbia”
Fort Nelson
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Northern Rockies, Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
58.8062° or 58° 48′ 22″ northLongitude
-122.6943° or 122° 41′ 39″ westPopulation
3,370Elevation
410 metres (1,345 feet)IATA airport code
YYEUnited Nations Location Code
CA FNEOpen location code
94CVR844+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 52555977OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5955902Wikidata 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.