McAlester
McAlester is a city in and the county seat of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, McAlester had a population of 18,171. The town gets its name from James Jackson "J.
- Type: Town with 18,400 residents
- Description: city in Oklahoma, United States
- Also known as: “MacAlister”, “MacAlister, OK”, “MacAlister, Oklahoma”, “MacAllister”, “MacAllister, OK”, “MacAllister, Oklahoma”, “McAlester (Oklahoma)”, “McAlester, OK”, “McAlester, Oklahoma”, “South McAlester”, “South McAlester, OK”, “South McAlester, Oklahoma”, “МcАлестер”, “マカリスター/McAleaster”, “マカレスター”, “マッカリスター”, and “麥卡萊斯特”
- Postal codes: 74501 and 74502
Places of Interest
Highlights: Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
McAlester
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Pittsburg, Choctaw Country, Oklahoma, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.9335° or 34° 56′ 1″ north
Longitude
-95.7698° or 95° 46′ 11″ west
Population
18,400
Elevation
735 feet (224 metres)
IATA airport code
MLC
UN/LOCODE
US MLC
Open location code
8666W6MJ+93
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“McAlester” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماكالستر”
- Armenian: “Մակ-Ալեստեր”
- Basque: “McAlester”
- Bulgarian: “Макалестър”
- Catalan: “McAlester”
- Cebuano: “McAlester”
- Chechen: “Макалестер”
- Chinese: “麦卡莱斯特”
- Dagbani: “McAlester”
- Danish: “McAlester”
- Dutch: “McAlester”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماكالستر”
- French: “McAlester”
- German: “McAlester”
- Gilaki: “مکآلستر (اؤکلاهؤما)”
- Gilaki: “مکآلستر”
- Greek: “Μακάλιστερ”
- Haitian: “McAlester, Oklahoma”
- Haitian: “McAlester”
- Hebrew: “מקאלסטר”
- Hungarian: “McAlester”
- Ido: “McAlester, Oklahoma”
- Ido: “McAlester”
- Interlingua: “McAlester”
- Irish: “McAlester”
- Italian: “McAlester”
- Japanese: “マカリスター”
- Kazakh: “Mak Alester”
- Kazakh: “Мак Алестер”
- Kazakh: “ماك الەستەر”
- Kirghiz: “Мак Алестер”
- Ladin: “McAlester”
- Malagasy: “McAlester, Oklahoma”
- Malagasy: “McAlester”
- Min Nan Chinese: “McAlester”
- Moksha: “Макалэстэр (Оклагома)”
- Moksha: “Макалэстэр”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “McAlester”
- Norwegian: “McAlester”
- Persian: “مکلیستر، اکلاهما”
- Persian: “مکلیستر”
- Polish: “McAlester”
- Portuguese: “McAlester”
- Russian: “Мак-Алестер”
- Russian: “Макалистер”
- Serbian: “Макалестер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “McAlester, Oklahoma”
- Serbo-Croatian: “McAlester”
- South Azerbaijani: “مکلیستر، اوکلاهوما”
- Spanish: “McAlester”
- Swedish: “McAlester”
- Tatar: “Макалестер”
- Turkish: “McAlester, Oklahoma”
- Turkish: “McAlester”
- Ukrainian: “Макалестер”
- Urdu: “میک ایلسٹر، اوکلاہوما”
- Uzbek: “McAlester”
- Vietnamese: “McAlester”
- Volapük: “McAlester”
- Waray (Philippines): “McAlester, Oklahoma”
- Waray (Philippines): “McAlester”
- Welsh: “McAlester, Oklahoma”
- Yakut: “Макалестар”
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