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Fort Ross

Fort Ross is a State Historical Park in the of . Although fairly remote, it is well worth a visit as you will become one of the few people who know about the contribution to the colonization of California.
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: former Russian establishment in the United States of America
  • Also known as: “Fort Ross, California” and “Fortress Ross”
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Fort Ross

Latitude
38.5141° or 38° 30′ 51″ north
Longitude
-123.2436° or 123° 14′ 37″ west
Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)
Open location code
84CRGQ74+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150934589
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Wiki­data ID
Q1278115
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Vietnamese—“Fort Ross” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Форт Рос”
  • Bulgarian: “Форт Рос”
  • Cebuano: “Fort Ross”
  • Chinese: “羅斯堡”
  • Czech: “Fort Ross”
  • Czech: “Fortress Ross”
  • Danish: “Fort Ross”
  • Dutch: “Fort Ross”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حصن روس”
  • Esperanto: “Fort Ross”
  • Estonian: “Fort Ross”
  • Finnish: “Fort Ross”
  • French: “fort Ross”
  • French: “Fort Ross”
  • French: “krepost Ross”
  • German: “Fort Ross”
  • Greek: “Φορτ Ρος”
  • Hebrew: “מבצר רוס”
  • Hebrew: “פורט רוס”
  • Italian: “Fort Ross”
  • Japanese: “フォート・ロス”
  • Japanese: “ロス砦”
  • Japanese: “ロス要塞”
  • Korean: “로스 요새”
  • Lithuanian: “Fort Rosas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Ross”
  • Norwegian: “Fort Ross”
  • Ossetian: “Форт-Росс”
  • Polish: “Fort Ross”
  • Portuguese: “Fort Ross”
  • Russian: “Форт-Росс”
  • Slovak: “Fort Ross”
  • Spanish: “Fort Ross”
  • Swedish: “Fort Ross”
  • Tatar: “Fort Ross”
  • Turkish: “Fort Ross”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт Росс”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Росс”
  • Vietnamese: “Pháo đài Ross, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Pháo đài Ross”

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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 Ross”. Photo: Franco Folini, CC BY-SA 2.0.