Homer

Homer is a city on the in and is long known as the "Halibut Fishing Capital of the World." It is also known as the "End of the Road".
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  • Type: Town with 5,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Homer, Alaska”
  • Postal code: 99603

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pratt Museum and Homer High School.

Museum
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The is a regional natural history museum located in Homer, Alaska, with exhibits exploring life around in South Central Alaska.

School
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is located in Homer, . It is part of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. The school's mascot is a mariner, usually represented by a ship's wheel.

Building
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The was a historic house in Homer, Alaska, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Built in 1945, it was one of the city's few little-altered examples of housing built in Homer's boom years following World War II.

Homer

Latitude
59.6454° or 59° 38′ 44″ north
Longitude
-151.5446° or 151° 32′ 40″ west
Population
5,000
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
IATA airport code
HOM
Open location code
93FCJFW4+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150917881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5864145
Wiki­data ID
Q79441
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Homer” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هومير”
  • Azerbaijani: “Homer”
  • Basque: “Homer”
  • Belarusian: “Хомер”
  • Bengali: “হুমার”
  • Catalan: “Homer”
  • Cebuano: “Homer”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھۆمەر، ئالاسکا”
  • Chechen: “Гомер”
  • Chinese: “Homer”
  • Chinese: “荷馬”
  • Chinese: “荷马”
  • Czech: “Homer”
  • Dagbani: “Homer”
  • Danish: “Homer, Alaska”
  • Danish: “Homer”
  • Dutch: “Homer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هومير”
  • Esperanto: “Homer”
  • Estonian: “Homer”
  • Finnish: “Homer”
  • French: “Homer”
  • German: “Homer”
  • Gilaki: “هؤمر”
  • Greek: “Χόμερ”
  • Gujarati: “હોમર”
  • Haitian: “Homer”
  • Hebrew: “הומר”
  • Hindi: “होमर”
  • Hungarian: “Homer”
  • Indonesian: “Homer, Alaska”
  • Indonesian: “Homer”
  • Irish: “Homer, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Homer”
  • Italian: “Homer”
  • Japanese: “ホーマー”
  • Kannada: “ಹೋಮರ್”
  • Korean: “호머”
  • Ladin: “Homer”
  • Latvian: “Homera”
  • Lithuanian: “Homeris”
  • Lithuanian: “Houmeris”
  • Malagasy: “Homer, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Homer”
  • Malay: “Homer”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോമർ, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോമർ”
  • Marathi: “होमर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Homer”
  • Newari: “होमर, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “होमर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Homer”
  • Norwegian: “Homer”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Homer”
  • Persian: “میلر لندینگ، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “میلر لندینگ، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “میلر لندینگ”
  • Polish: “Homer”
  • Portuguese: “Homer”
  • Russian: “Хомер”
  • Serbian: “Хомер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Homer, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Homer”
  • Sicilian: “Homer”
  • Sinhala: “හෝමර්”
  • Slovak: “Homer”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میلر لندینق، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میلر لندینق”
  • Spanish: “Homer, Alaska”
  • Spanish: “Homer”
  • Swedish: “Homer, Alaska”
  • Swedish: “Homer”
  • Talysh: “Homer (šəhr)”
  • Talysh: “Homer”
  • Tamil: “ஹோமர்”
  • Tatar: “Гомер”
  • Telugu: “హోమర్”
  • Thai: “โฮเมอร์”
  • Turkish: “Homer, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Homer”
  • Ukrainian: “Гомер”
  • Urdu: “ہومر، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “ہومر”
  • Uzbek: “Homer”
  • Vietnamese: “Homer”
  • Volapük: “Homer”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Homer, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Homer”
  • Western Mari: “Хомер”

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