Gettysburg

Gettysburg, in Adams County in , goes down in history as the battlefield in the Civil War where, despite terrible tragedy and loss of life, there was hope for the Union.
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  • Type: Town with 7,620 residents
  • Description: borough and the county seat of Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
  • Also known as: “G-burg”, “Gettys-town”, “Gettysburg (Pensilvania)”, “Gettysburg, PA”, “Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”, “Gettystown”, “게티스버그”, and “蓋茲堡”
  • Postal code: 17325
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Gettysburg station and Adams County Courthouse.

Railway station
Photo: Namhsi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gettysburg Lincoln Railroad Station, also known…

Courthouse
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
The is located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

Peak
is a landform on the Gettysburg…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Culp’s Hill and Round Top.

Locality
Culp's Hill, which is about 3⁄4 mi south of the center…

Hamlet
is a populated place in in the… is situated 2½ miles south of Gettysburg.

Locality
Photo: Japedi, Public domain.
is the smaller of two rocky hills… is situated 3 miles south of Gettysburg.

Gettysburg

Latitude
39.8309° or 39° 49′ 51″ north
Longitude
-77.231° or 77° 13′ 52″ west
Population
7,620
Elevation
531 feet (162 metres)
IATA airport code
GTY
Open location code
87F4RQJ9+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 114585837
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4558183
Wiki­data ID
Q694550
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Gettysburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gettysburg”
  • Arabic: “جيتيسبيرغ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gettisberq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gettysburg”
  • Basque: “Gettysburg”
  • Belarusian: “Гетысбург”
  • Belarusian: “Гетысбэрг”
  • Breton: “Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)”
  • Breton: “Gettysburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Гетисбърг”
  • Catalan: “Gettysburg”
  • Cebuano: “Gettysburg”
  • Chechen: “Геттисберг”
  • Chinese: “盖茨堡”
  • Chinese: “葛底斯堡”
  • Chinese: “蓋茨堡”
  • Cornish: “Gettysburg, Pennsylvani”
  • Cornish: “Gettysburg”
  • Czech: “Gettysburg”
  • Dagbani: “Gettysburg”
  • Danish: “Gettysburg”
  • Dutch: “Gettysburg”
  • Esperanto: “Gettysburg”
  • Finnish: “Gettysburg”
  • French: “Gettysburg”
  • German: “Gettysburg”
  • Gilaki: “گتیزبرگ (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “گتیزبرگ”
  • Greek: “Γκέτισμπεργκ”
  • Haitian: “Gettysburg, Pennsilvani”
  • Haitian: “Gettysburg”
  • Hebrew: “גטיסבורג”
  • Hungarian: “Gettysburg”
  • Indonesian: “Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”
  • Indonesian: “Gettysburg”
  • Irish: “Gettysburg”
  • Italian: “Gettysburg”
  • Japanese: “ゲティスバーグ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gettysburg”
  • Korean: “게티즈버그”
  • Ladin: “Gettysburg”
  • Latin: “Gettysburgum”
  • Latvian: “Getisburga”
  • Malagasy: “Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”
  • Malagasy: “Gettysburg”
  • Marathi: “गेटिसबर्ग (पेनसिल्व्हेनिया)”
  • Marathi: “गेटिसबर्ग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gettysburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gettysburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gettysburg”
  • Norwegian: “Gettysburg”
  • Ossetian: “Геттисберг”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Gettysbarrig, Pennsilfaani”
  • Persian: “گتیزبرگ، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Persian: “گتیزبرگ”
  • Persian: “گتیسبرگ”
  • Polish: “Gettysburg”
  • Portuguese: “Gettysburg”
  • Romanian: “Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”
  • Romanian: “Gettysburg”
  • Russian: “Геттисберг”
  • Serbian: “Гетизбург”
  • Serbian: “Гетисбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gettysburg”
  • Slovak: “Gettysburg”
  • Slovenian: “Gettysburg”
  • Spanish: “Gettysburg”
  • Swedish: “Gettysburg”
  • Tamil: “கெட்டிசுபெர்க்கு, பென்சில்வேனியா”
  • Tamil: “கெட்டிசுபெர்க்கு”
  • Tatar: “Геттисберг”
  • Thai: “เกตตีสเบิร์ก”
  • Turkish: “Gettysburg, Pensilvanya”
  • Turkish: “Gettysburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Геттісберг”
  • Urdu: “گیٹسبرگ، پنسلوانیا”
  • Uzbek: “Gettysburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Gettysburg”
  • Volapük: “Gettysburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gettysburg”
  • Welsh: “Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Gettysburg”

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