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Los Alamos

Los Alamos

Los Alamos is a small town in , about an hour northwest of . Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.
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  • Type: City with 13,200 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in and county seat of Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Atomic City”, “Los Alamos, N.M.”, “Los Alamos, New Mexico”, and “Los Alamos, NM”
  • Postal codes: 87544 and 87545

Places of Interest

Highlights include Los Alamos History Museum and Mesa Public Library.

Museum
Photo: Marcin Wichary, CC BY 2.0.
The is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of , which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; and the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II.

Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
is the Los Alamos branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages.

Aerodrome
Los Alamos Airport, also known as , is a county-owned, public-use in , United States. It is located one nautical mile east of the central business district of Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Los Alamos

Latitude
35.8814° or 35° 52′ 53″ north
Longitude
-106.299° or 106° 17′ 56″ west
Population
13,200
Elevation
7,211 feet (2,198 metres)
IATA airport code
LAM
United Nations Location Code
US LAM
Open location code
857MVPJ2+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151878215
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5476825
Wiki­data ID
Q318637
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Los Alamos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لوس ألاموس”
  • Armenian: “Լոս Ալամոս”
  • Azerbaijani: “Los Alamos”
  • Bashkir: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Belarusian: “Лос-Аламас”
  • Bengali: “লস অ্যালামস”
  • Breton: “Los Alamos”
  • Bulgarian: “Лос Аламос”
  • Catalan: “Los Alamos”
  • Catalan: “Los Álamos”
  • Cebuano: “Los Alamos”
  • Chechen: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Chinese: “Los Alamos”
  • Chinese: “洛斯阿拉莫斯”
  • Croatian: “Los Alamos, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Los Alamos”
  • Czech: “Los Alamos”
  • Danish: “Los Alamos”
  • Dutch: “Los Alamos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوس الاموس, نيومكسيكو”
  • Estonian: “Los Alamos”
  • Finnish: “Los Alamos”
  • French: “Los Alamos”
  • Galician: “Los Álamos, Novo México”
  • Galician: “Los Álamos”
  • Georgian: “ლოს-ალამოსი”
  • German: “Los Alamos, NM”
  • German: “Los Alamos”
  • Gilaki: “لاس آلاموس”
  • Greek: “Λος Άλαμος”
  • Gujarati: “લોસ એલામોસ”
  • Hebrew: “לוס אלמוס”
  • Hindi: “लॉस एलामोस”
  • Hungarian: “Los Alamos”
  • Indonesian: “Los Alamos”
  • Irish: “Los Alamos”
  • Italian: “Los Alamos”
  • Japanese: “ロス・アラモス”
  • Japanese: “ロスアラモス”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಸ್ ಅಲಾಮೊಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Лос Аламос”
  • Kirghiz: “Лос Аламос”
  • Korean: “로스 알라모스”
  • Korean: “로스 앨러모스”
  • Korean: “로스알라모스”
  • Korean: “로스앨러모스”
  • Ladin: “Los Alamos”
  • Latin: “Los Alamos”
  • Latvian: “Losalamosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Los Alamosas”
  • Macedonian: “Лос Аламос”
  • Malay: “Los Alamos”
  • Malayalam: “ലോസ് അലാമോസ്, ന്യൂ മെക്സിക്കോ”
  • Malayalam: “ലോസ് അലാമോസ്”
  • Marathi: “लॉस अलामोस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Los Alamos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Los Alamos”
  • Norwegian: “Los Alamos”
  • Persian: “لاس‌آلموس”
  • Persian: “لس آلاموس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “لس آلاموس”
  • Polish: “Los Alamos”
  • Portuguese: “Los Alamos”
  • Romanian: “Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Los Alamos”
  • Russian: “Лос Аламос”
  • Russian: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Serbian: “Los Alamos”
  • Serbian: “Лос Аламос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Los Alamos, Novi Meksiko”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Los Alamos”
  • Sinhala: “ලොස් ඇලමොස්”
  • Slovak: “Los Alamos (Nové Mexiko)”
  • Slovak: “Los Alamos”
  • Slovenian: “Los Alamos, Nova Mehika”
  • Slovenian: “Los Alamos”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لس آلاموس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Los Álamos (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “Los Álamos”
  • Swedish: “Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Swedish: “Los Alamos”
  • Tamil: “லாஸ் அலமோஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Telugu: “లాస్ అల్మాస్”
  • Thai: “ลอสอาลามอส”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos”
  • Ukrainian: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Urdu: “لاس ایلموس، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “لاس ایلموس”
  • Uzbek: “Los Alamos”
  • Uzbek: “Los-alamos”
  • Venetian: “Los Alamos”
  • Vietnamese: “Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Los Alamos”
  • Volapük: “Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Volapük: “Los Alamos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Los Alamos”
  • Yakut: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Yiddish: “לאס אלאמאס”

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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 “Los Alamos”. Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.