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Galveston

Galveston is a city on Galveston Island, off the , approximately 45 minutes southeast of . Galveston is a port of entry and a destination for almost all the cruise ships with ports of call in Texas.
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  • Type: City with 53,700 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Galveston County, Texas, United States; port and coastal city
  • Also known as: “Galveston, Texas” and “Galveston, TX”
  • Postal codes: 77550-77555

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bishop’s Palace and University of Texas Medical Branch.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Bishop's Palace, also known as Gresham's Castle, is an ornate 19,082 square feet Victorian-style house, located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas.

University
The is a public academic health science center in Galveston, Texas, United States. It is part of the University of Texas System.

Hospital
Photo: Nsaum75, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Shriners Children's Texas is a 30-bed non-profit pediatric specialty hospital, research, and teaching center located adjacent to the in Galveston, , US.

Galveston

Latitude
29.3057° or 29° 18′ 21″ north
Longitude
-94.7933° or 94° 47′ 36″ west
Population
53,700
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
IATA airport code
GLS
United Nations Location Code
US GLS
Open location code
76X78644+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 54611749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4692883
Wiki­data ID
Q135744
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Galveston” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غالفستون”
  • Armenian: “Գալվեսթոն”
  • Armenian: “Գալվեստոն”
  • Asturian: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Asturian: “Galveston”
  • Basque: “Galveston”
  • Belarusian: “Галвестан”
  • Breton: “Galveston”
  • Bulgarian: “Галвестън”
  • Catalan: “Galveston”
  • Cebuano: “Galveston”
  • Chechen: “Галвестон”
  • Chinese: “Galveston”
  • Chinese: “交維斯頓”
  • Chinese: “加尔维斯敦”
  • Chinese: “加尔维斯顿”
  • Chinese: “加爾維斯敦”
  • Chinese: “蓋維斯頓”
  • Chinese: “高佛斯頓”
  • Chuvash: “Галвестон”
  • Croatian: “Galveston, Teksas”
  • Croatian: “Galveston”
  • Czech: “Galveston”
  • Dagbani: “Galveston”
  • Danish: “Galveston”
  • Dutch: “Galveston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جالفستون”
  • Esperanto: “Galveston”
  • Estonian: “Galveston”
  • Finnish: “Galveston”
  • French: “Galveston”
  • Galician: “Galveston”
  • Georgian: “გალვისტონი”
  • German: “Galveston”
  • Gilaki: “گالوستن (تگزاس)”
  • Gilaki: “گالوستن”
  • Greek: “Γκάλβεστον”
  • Haitian: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Haitian: “Galveston”
  • Hausa: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Hausa: “Galveston”
  • Hebrew: “גלווסטון”
  • Hungarian: “Galveston”
  • Inari Sami: “Galveston”
  • Indonesian: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Indonesian: “Galveston”
  • Interlingua: “Galveston”
  • Irish: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Irish: “Galveston”
  • Italian: “Galveston”
  • Japanese: “ガルヴェストン”
  • Japanese: “ガルベストン”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Galveston”
  • Korean: “갤버스턴”
  • Korean: “갤베스턴”
  • Ladin: “Galveston”
  • Latin: “Galvestonia”
  • Lithuanian: “Galvestonas”
  • Lule Sami: “Galveston”
  • Luxembourgish: “Galveston”
  • Malagasy: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Malagasy: “Galveston”
  • Malay: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Malayalam: “Galveston”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാൽ‌വെസ്റ്റൺ”
  • Marathi: “गॅल्व्हस्टन”
  • Marathi: “गॅल्व्हेस्टन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Galveston”
  • Moksha: “Галвэстон”
  • Northern Sami: “Galveston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galveston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galveston”
  • Norwegian: “Galveston”
  • Persian: “گالوستون، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “گالوستون”
  • Persian: “گلوستون، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “گلوستون”
  • Pite Sami: “Galveston”
  • Polish: “Galveston”
  • Portuguese: “Galveston”
  • Romanian: “Galveston”
  • Russian: “Галвестон”
  • Scots: “Galveston”
  • Serbian: “Galveston”
  • Serbian: “Галвестон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Galveston”
  • Silesian: “Galveston”
  • Skolt Sami: “Galveston”
  • Slovak: “Galveston”
  • Slovenian: “Galveston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قالوزتون، تکزاس”
  • Southern Sami: “Galveston”
  • Spanish: “Galveston (Texas)”
  • Spanish: “Galveston”
  • Swahili: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Swahili: “Galveston”
  • Swedish: “Galveston”
  • Tatar: “Галвестон”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Galveston”
  • Turkish: “Galveston, Teksas”
  • Turkish: “Galveston”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґалвестoн”
  • Ukrainian: “Галвестон”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґалвестон”
  • Ume Sami: “Galveston”
  • Urdu: “گیلویسٹن، ٹیکساس”
  • Urdu: “گیلویسٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Galveston”
  • Vietnamese: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Galveston”
  • Volapük: “Galveston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Galveston, Texas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Galveston”
  • Welsh: “Galveston, Texas”
  • Welsh: “Galveston”
  • Wu Chinese: “加尔维斯顿 (德克萨斯州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “加尔维斯顿（德克萨斯州）”

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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 “Galveston”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.