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Golden

Golden is a city in the of . It sits at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and distance-wise is roughly halfway between the cities of and .
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  • Type: City with 20,400 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Golden, CO” and “Golden, Colorado”
  • Postal codes: 80401-80403 and 80419

Places of Interest

Highlights include Astor House and South Table Mountain.

Historic building
Photo: Hustvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , at 822 12th St. in Golden, Colorado, is a historic stone hotel from the earliest years of Golden, Colorado, . It was built in 1867.

Peak
Photo: Rick Kimpel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a mesa on the eastern flank of the of the of . Castle Rock, the 6,338-foot summit of the mesa, is located on private property in , 0.56 miles directly east of downtown Golden.

Museum
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , formerly the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum, is a geology located on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, , United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Pleasant View.

Village
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 4.0.
is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located in and governed by , , . The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Golden

Latitude
39.7546° or 39° 45′ 17″ north
Longitude
-105.2206° or 105° 13′ 14″ west
Population
20,400
Elevation
5,676 feet (1,730 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US GOE
Open location code
85FPQQ3H+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151793367
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5423294
Wiki­data ID
Q983543
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Golden” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غولدن”
  • Basque: “Golden”
  • Belarusian: “Голдэн”
  • Bulgarian: “Голдън”
  • Catalan: “Golden”
  • Cebuano: “Golden”
  • Chechen: “Голден”
  • Chinese: “Golden”
  • Chinese: “戈尔登”
  • Chinese: “戈爾登”
  • Czech: “Golden”
  • Danish: “Golden”
  • Dutch: “Golden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جولدن”
  • Estonian: “Golden”
  • Finnish: “Golden”
  • French: “Golden”
  • German: “Golden”
  • Gilaki: “گؤلدن (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “گؤلدن”
  • Haitian: “Golden, Kolorado”
  • Haitian: “Golden”
  • Hebrew: “גולדן”
  • Hungarian: “Golden”
  • Indonesian: “Golden, Colorado”
  • Indonesian: “Golden”
  • Irish: “Golden”
  • Italian: “Golden”
  • Japanese: “ゴールデン”
  • Kazakh: “Golden”
  • Kazakh: “Голден”
  • Kazakh: “گولدەن”
  • Kirghiz: “Голден”
  • Korean: “골든”
  • Ladin: “Golden”
  • Macedonian: “Голден”
  • Malagasy: “Golden, Colorado”
  • Malagasy: “Golden”
  • Malayalam: “ഗോൾഡൻ”
  • Marathi: “गोल्डन”
  • Mazanderani: “گلدن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Golden”
  • Moksha: “Голдэн”
  • Newari: “गोल्डेन (कोलोर्याडो)”
  • Newari: “गोल्डेन, कोलोर्याडो”
  • Newari: “गोल्डेन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Golden”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Golden”
  • Norwegian: “Golden”
  • Persian: “گلدن، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “گلدن”
  • Polish: “Golden”
  • Portuguese: “Golden”
  • Russian: “Голден (Колорадо)”
  • Russian: “Голден”
  • Serbian: “Голден”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Golden, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Golden”
  • Slovak: “Golden”
  • Slovenian: “Golden”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قولدن، کولورادو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قولدن”
  • Spanish: “Golden (Colorado)”
  • Spanish: “Golden”
  • Swedish: “Golden, Colorado”
  • Swedish: “Golden”
  • Talysh: “Golden”
  • Tatar: “Голден”
  • Turkish: “Golden, Colorado”
  • Turkish: “Qolden (Kolorado)”
  • Turkish: “Qolden”
  • Ukrainian: “Голден”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґолден”
  • Urdu: “گولڈن، کولوراڈو”
  • Urdu: “گولڈن”
  • Uzbek: “Golden”
  • Vietnamese: “Golden, Colorado”
  • Vietnamese: “Golden”
  • Volapük: “Golden”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Golden, Colorado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Golden”
  • Welsh: “Golden, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Golden”

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