Foster
Foster is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 4,469 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,510 residents
- Description: town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
- Also known as: “Foster, Rhode Island” and “Foster, RI”
- Postal code: 02825
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jerimoth Hill.
Jerimoth Hill
Peak
Photo: Khoule23, Public domain.
Jerimoth Hill is the highest point in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It is the lowest state highpoint in New England. Located in the town of Foster in the northwest of the state, the site is used as an observatory.
Foster
- Categories: town in the United States, town of Rhode Island, and locality
- Location: Town of Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.8537° or 41° 51′ 13″ northLongitude
-71.7581° or 71° 45′ 29″ westPopulation
4,510Elevation
709 feet (216 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OSROpen location code
87HCV63R+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 158918194OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Foster” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوستر”
- Basque: “Foster”
- Catalan: “Foster”
- Cebuano: “Foster”
- Chechen: “Фостер”
- Chinese: “福斯特”
- Dutch: “Foster”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوستر”
- Finnish: “Foster”
- French: “Foster”
- Georgian: “ფოსტერი”
- German: “Foster”
- Haitian: “Foster, Rhode”
- Haitian: “Foster”
- Hebrew: “פוסטר”
- Hungarian: “Foster”
- Italian: “Foster”
- Japanese: “フォスター”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foster”
- Persian: “فاستر”
- Polish: “Foster”
- Portuguese: “Foster”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوزتر، رهود ایسلند”
- Spanish: “Foster (Rhode Island)”
- Spanish: “Foster”
- Swedish: “Foster, Rhode Island”
- Swedish: “Foster”
- Tatar: “Фостер”
- Turkish: “Foster”
- Ukrainian: “Фостер”
- Urdu: “فوسٹر، روڈ آئلینڈ”
- Volapük: “Foster”
- Waray (Philippines): “Foster, Rhode Island”
- Waray (Philippines): “Foster”
- Welsh: “Foster, Rhode Island”
- Welsh: “Foster”
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