Jersey City

Jersey City is 's second-largest city. Jersey City sits in in the northeastern section of the state, across the Hudson from its older and bigger cousin, , and south of .
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  • Type: City with 292,000 residents
  • Description: city in New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Arissheck”, “Hudson”, “Jersey City, New Jersey”, “Jersey City, NJ”, “Paulus Hook”, “Paulus’s Hook”, and “Powles Hook”
  • Postal codes: 07097, 07302-07308, 07310, 07311, 07395, and 07399
  • Neighbors: , , , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ellis Island and Museum of Russian Art.

Islet
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is an island in , within the U.S. states of and . Owned by the U.S. government, was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States.

Museum
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The is a museum in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is dedicated to exhibiting Russian art, particularly Soviet Nonconformist Art. It was established in 1980 as CASE Museum of Contemporary Russian Art The museum's historic brownstone building in Paulus Hook underwent renovation and re-opened in 2010.

Museum
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The , also known as Apple Tree House, is located near Bergen Square in Jersey City, , , United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 2006.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hoboken and TriBeCa.

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is a small city on the Hudson River in northeastern . Once known only as the birthplace of baseball and crooner Frank Sinatra and the site of Stevens Institute of Technology, has become a party town, rich in bars and clubs, and a bedroom community for young, mostly twenty-something professionals who work across the river in …

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A former industrial district in Lower , , short for "Triangle Below Canal Street", has transformed from artist community to upscale residential district in the 21st century.

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The comprises the southern tip of , with the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and Barclay Street on the north.

Jersey City

Latitude
40.7216° or 40° 43′ 18″ north
Longitude
-74.0475° or 74° 2′ 51″ west
Population
292,000
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
IATA airport code
JEC
United Nations Location Code
US JEC
Open location code
87G7PXC3+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158840157
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5099836
Wiki­data ID
Q26339
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Jersey City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jersey City”
  • Arabic: “جيرسى سيتى”
  • Arabic: “جيرسي سيتي”
  • Aragonese: “Jersey City”
  • Armenian: “Ջերսի Սիթի, Նյու Ջերսի”
  • Armenian: “Ջերսի Սիթի”
  • Asturian: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Asturian: “Jersey City, Nueva Jersey”
  • Asturian: “Jersey City”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cersi-Siti”
  • Balinese: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Balinese: “Jersey City”
  • Basque: “Jersey City”
  • Belarusian: “Джэрзі-Сіці”
  • Belarusian: “Джэрсі-Сіці”
  • Bengali: “জার্সি সিটি, নিউ জার্সি”
  • Bengali: “জার্সি সিটি”
  • Breton: “Jersey City”
  • Bulgarian: “Jersey City”
  • Bulgarian: “Джързи сити”
  • Bulgarian: “Джърси Сити”
  • Catalan: “Jersey City”
  • Cebuano: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Cebuano: “Jersey City”
  • Central Bikol: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Central Bikol: “Jersey City”
  • Central Kurdish: “جێرزی ستی”
  • Chechen: “Джерси-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Jersey City”
  • Chinese: “泽西城”
  • Chinese: “泽西市”
  • Chinese: “澤西城”
  • Chinese: “澤西市”
  • Cornish: “Jersey City, Jersi Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Jersey City”
  • Croatian: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Croatian: “Jersey City”
  • Czech: “Jersey City”
  • Dagbani: “Jersey City”
  • Danish: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Danish: “Jersey City”
  • Dutch: “Jersey City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “چيرسى سيتى (نيو چيرسى)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “چيرسى سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Jersey City”
  • Esperanto: “Ĵerzejurbo”
  • Estonian: “Jersey City”
  • Finnish: “Jersey City”
  • French: “Jersey City”
  • Galician: “Jersey City”
  • German: “Jersey City”
  • Gilaki: “جرسي سيتي (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “جرسي سيتي”
  • Greek: “Τζέρσεϊ Σίτι, Νιου Τζέρσεϊ”
  • Greek: “Τζέρσεϊ Σίτι”
  • Gujarati: “જર્સી સિટી”
  • Haitian: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Jersey City”
  • Hebrew: “ג’רזי סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “גרזי סיטי”
  • Hindi: “जर्सी सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Jersey City”
  • Icelandic: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Icelandic: “Jersey City”
  • Ido: “Jersey City”
  • Indonesian: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Indonesian: “Jersey City”
  • Interlingua: “Jersey City”
  • Irish: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Irish: “Jersey City”
  • Italian: “Jersey City”
  • Japanese: “ジャージー・シティ”
  • Japanese: “ジャージー・シティー”
  • Japanese: “ジャージーシティ”
  • Japanese: “ジャージーシティー”
  • Japanese: “ニュージャージー州ジャージーシティ”
  • Kannada: “ಜರ್ಸಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Джерсей Сити”
  • Kirghiz: “Джерсей Сити”
  • Korean: “저지 시”
  • Korean: “저지 시티”
  • Korean: “저지시티”
  • Ladin: “Jersey City”
  • Latvian: “Džērsisitija”
  • Lithuanian: “Džersi Sitis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jersey City”
  • Macedonian: “Џерси Сити”
  • Malay: “Jersey City”
  • Maltese: “Belt ta‘ Jersey”
  • Maltese: “Jersey City”
  • Marathi: “जर्सी शहर”
  • Marathi: “जर्सी सिटी”
  • Mazanderani: “جرزی سیتی (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “جرزی سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jersey City”
  • Moksha: “Джэрси-Ошсь”
  • Neapolitan: “Jersey City”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jersey City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jersey City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jersey City”
  • Norwegian: “Jersey City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jersey City”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cēsarēaburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cēsarēaburh on Nīƿum Cēsarum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cēsarēaburh”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cēsarēaceaster on Nīƿum Cēsarum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cēsarēaceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Джерси-Сити”
  • Persian: “جرزی سیتی”
  • Piemontese: “Jersey City”
  • Polish: “Jersey City”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Jersey”
  • Portuguese: “Jersey City”
  • Romanian: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Romanian: “Jersey City”
  • Russian: “Джерси-Cити”
  • Russian: “Джерси-Сити”
  • Sardinian: “Jersey City”
  • Scots: “Jersey Ceety”
  • Scots: “Jersey City”
  • Serbian: “Jersey City”
  • Serbian: “Џерзи Сити”
  • Serbian: “Џерси Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jersey City”
  • Silesian: “Jersey City”
  • Sinhala: “ජර්සි සිටි”
  • Slovak: “Jersey City”
  • Slovenian: “Jersey City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جرزئی سیتی، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Jersey”
  • Spanish: “Jersey City (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Jersey City”
  • Swahili: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Swahili: “Jersey City, NJ”
  • Swahili: “Jersey City”
  • Swedish: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Swedish: “Jersey City”
  • Tagalog: “Jersey City”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Jersey, New Jersey”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Jersey”
  • Tamil: “செர்சி நகரம், நியூ செர்சி”
  • Tamil: “செர்சி நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Джерси-Сити”
  • Tatar: “Җерси-Сити”
  • Telugu: “జెర్సీ నగరం”
  • Thai: “เจอร์ซีซิตี้”
  • Thai: “เจอร์ซีย์ซิตี”
  • Turkish: “Jersey City”
  • Ukrainian: “Джерсі-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “جرسی شہر، نیو جرسی”
  • Urdu: “جرسی شہر”
  • Venetian: “Jersey City”
  • Vietnamese: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Jersey, New Jersey”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Jersey”
  • Vlax Romani: “Jersey City”
  • Volapük: “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Jersey City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jersey City, New Jersey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jersey City”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Jersey City”
  • Wu Chinese: “泽西市”
  • Yue Chinese: “澤西市”
  • “Jersey City”

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