North Carolina
Dare
Atlantic Township

Kitty Hawk

Kitty Hawk, located on the of , consists of a thriving village that has been around for generations, a newer beach community of residential cottages, and a maritime forest called Kitty Hawk Woods which features a wide variety of plant and animal life.
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  • Type: Town with 3,330 residents
  • Description: town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Chickehauk”, “Kitty Hawk, NC”, “Kitty Hawk, North Carolina”, and “New Inlet”
  • Postal code: 27949

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kill Devil Hills.

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is a colorfully-named town on the coast of . It is part of the , and is best known for its association with the Wright Brothers' historic flights in the first airplane in 1903.

Kitty Hawk

Latitude
36.0664° or 36° 3′ 59″ north
Longitude
-75.6935° or 75° 41′ 37″ west
Population
3,330
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US KTT
Open location code
87863884+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158639623
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4474505
Wiki­data ID
Q628311
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Kitty Hawk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kitty Hawk, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Arabic: “كيتي هوك”
  • Basque: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Bengali: “কিটি হোক”
  • Bulgarian: “Кити Хоук”
  • Catalan: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Cebuano: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Chechen: “Китти-Гок”
  • Chinese: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Chinese: “基蒂霍克”
  • Croatian: “Kitty Hawk, Sjeverna Karolina”
  • Croatian: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Dagbani: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Danish: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Dutch: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيتى هوك”
  • Esperanto: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Finnish: “Kitty Hawk”
  • French: “Kitty Hawk”
  • German: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Gilaki: “کیتی هاوک (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “کیتی هاوک”
  • Greek: “Κίτι Χόουκ”
  • Gujarati: “કિટ્ટી હોક”
  • Haitian: “Kitty Hawk, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hindi: “किटि हाक”
  • Hungarian: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Indonesian: “Kitty Hawk, Carolina Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Italian: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Japanese: “キティホーク”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಟ್ಟಿ ಹಾಕ್”
  • Korean: “키티호크”
  • Ladin: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Latvian: “Kitīhavka”
  • Lithuanian: “Kiti-Hokas”
  • Malay: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Marathi: “किट्टी हॉक”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Norwegian: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Persian: “کیتی هاک”
  • Persian: “کیتیهک، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “کیتیهک”
  • Polish: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Portuguese: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Russian: “Китти-Хок”
  • Russian: “Китти-Хоук”
  • Serbian: “Кити Хок”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitty Hawk, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Sinhala: “කිටි හෝක්”
  • Spanish: “Kitty Hawk (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Swedish: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Tamil: “கிட்டி ஹாக்”
  • Tatar: “Китти-Гок”
  • Telugu: “కిట్టి హాక్”
  • Thai: “คิตตีฮอว์ค”
  • Turkish: “Kitty Hawk, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Ukrainian: “Кітті-Гок”
  • Ukrainian: “Кітті-Хок”
  • Urdu: “کٹی ہاک، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Urdu: “کٹی ہاک، شمالی کیرولینا”
  • Urdu: “کٹی ہاک”
  • Uzbek: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Vietnamese: “Kitty Hawk, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Volapük: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Western Frisian: “Kitty Hawk”
  • Western Panjabi: “کٹی ہاک، شمالی کیرولائنا”

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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 “Kitty Hawk”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.