Marfa
Marfa is a town of 1,600 people in the Big Bend Country region of Texas. It's known for two things: innovative art and mysterious lights.
- Type: Town with 1,790 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Presidio County, Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Jarja”, “Marfa (Texas)”, “Marfa, Texas”, “Marfa, TX”, and “Марфа (Тэхас)”
- Postal code: 79843
Places of Interest
Highlights: Chinati Foundation and Blackwell School National Historic Site.
Blackwell School National Historic Site
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Marfa
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Presidio, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.3118° or 30° 18′ 42″ north
Longitude
-104.0231° or 104° 1′ 23″ west
Population
1,790
Elevation
4,685 feet (1,428 metres)
IATA airport code
MRF
UN/LOCODE
US MRF
Open location code
852Q8X6G+PP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Marfa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Marfa, Texas”
- Albanian: “Marfa”
- Arabic: “مارفا”
- Basque: “Marfa”
- Belarusian: “Марфа”
- Catalan: “Marfa”
- Cebuano: “Marfa”
- Chechen: “Марфа”
- Chinese: “馬爾法 (美國)”
- Chinese: “馬爾法”
- Chinese: “马尔法 (美国)”
- Croatian: “Marfa”
- Czech: “Marfa”
- Danish: “Marfa”
- Dutch: “Marfa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مارفا”
- Esperanto: “Marfa”
- French: “Marfa”
- German: “Marfa”
- Gilaki: “مارفا”
- Greek: “Μάρφα”
- Haitian: “Marfa, Texas”
- Haitian: “Marfa”
- Hungarian: “Marfa”
- Irish: “Marfa, Texas”
- Irish: “Marfa”
- Italian: “Marfa”
- Japanese: “マーファ”
- Korean: “마파”
- Ladin: “Marfa”
- Latvian: “Marfa”
- Malagasy: “Marfa, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Marfa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marfa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marfa”
- Norwegian: “Marfa”
- Persian: “مارفا، تگزاس”
- Persian: “مارفا”
- Polish: “Marfa”
- Portuguese: “Marfa”
- Romanian: “Marfa”
- Russian: “Марфа”
- Serbian: “Марфа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marfa, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marfa”
- Slovak: “Marfa”
- Slovenian: “Marfa”
- South Azerbaijani: “مارفا، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Marfa”
- Swedish: “Marfa”
- Tatar: “Марфа”
- Ukrainian: “Марфа”
- Urdu: “مارفا، ٹیکساس”
- Uzbek: “Marfa”
- Vietnamese: “Marfa, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Marfa”
- Volapük: “Marfa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Marfa, Texas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Marfa”
- Welsh: “Marfa, Texas”
- Welsh: “Marfa”
- “Marfa”
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