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Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat is a city of 63,000 people in the region of . It's also known as the Gas City thanks to its vast reserves of natural gas.
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  • Type: City with 57,000 residents
  • Description: city in southeast Alberta, Canada
  • Also known as: “Medicine Hat, AB” and “Medicine Hat, Alberta”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Medicine Hat Railway Station and Medicine Hat Airport.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Medicine Hat station is a heritage railway station in Medicine Hat, Alberta. It was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1906 and expanded in 1911–1912, using red brick from Medicine Hat and sandstone from .

Aerodrome
Photo: Crhiles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located 2 nautical miles southwest of Medicine Hat, , Canada. WestJet Encore services the airport daily from . During World War II the site was used as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

Medicine Hat

Latitude
50.043° or 50° 2′ 35″ north
Longitude
-110.679° or 110° 40′ 45″ west
Population
57,000
Elevation
673 metres (2,208 feet)
IATA airport code
YXH
United Nations Location Code
CA YXH
Open location code
952F28VC+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29660485
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6071618
Wiki­data ID
Q368241
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Medicine Hat” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Arabic: “مدسين هات (البرتا)”
  • Arabic: “مدسين هات”
  • Armenian: “Մեդիսին Հաթ”
  • Armenian: “Մեդիսին-Հաթ”
  • Asturian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Medikan Hat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Medisin-Hat”
  • Belarusian: “Медысін-Хат”
  • Bengali: “মেডিসিন হাট”
  • Catalan: “Medicine Hat”
  • Cebuano: “Medicine Hat”
  • Chinese: “Medicine Hat”
  • Chinese: “梅迪辛哈特”
  • Chinese: “美迪辛哈”
  • Croatian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Czech: “Medicine Hat”
  • Danish: “Medicine Hat”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Medicine Hat, Alberta”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Medicine Hat”
  • Dutch: “Medicine Hat”
  • Esperanto: “Medicine Hat”
  • Estonian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Finnish: “Medicine Hat”
  • French: “Medicine Hat”
  • German: “Medicine Hat”
  • Greek: “Μέντισιν Χατ”
  • Gujarati: “મેડિસિન હેટ”
  • Hebrew: “מדיסין הט”
  • Hindi: “मेडिसिन हैट”
  • Hungarian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Indonesian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Interlingue: “Medicine Hat”
  • Irish: “Medicine Hat”
  • Italian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Japanese: “メディシン・ハット”
  • Japanese: “メディシンハット”
  • Japanese: “メデスン・ハット”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಡಿಸಿನ್ ಹ್ಯಾಟ್”
  • Korean: “메디신햇”
  • Kurdish: “Medicine Hat”
  • Latvian: “Medisinheta”
  • Lithuanian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Lithuanian: “Medisin Hatas”
  • Lithuanian: “Medisin Hetas”
  • Malagasy: “Medicine Hat”
  • Malay: “Medicine Hat”
  • Marathi: “मेडिसिन हॅट”
  • Nauru: “Medicine Hat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Medicine Hat”
  • Norwegian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Persian: “مدیسین هت”
  • Polish: “Medicine Hat”
  • Portuguese: “Medicine Hat”
  • Russian: “Медисин Хат”
  • Russian: “Медисин-Гат”
  • Russian: “Медисин-Хат”
  • Russian: “Медисин-Хэт”
  • Serbian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Serbian: “Medisin Hat”
  • Serbian: “Медисин Хат”
  • Serbian: “Медисин Хет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Silesian: “Medicine Hat”
  • Sinhala: “මෙඩිසින් හැට්”
  • Slovak: “Medicine Hat”
  • Slovenian: “Medicine Hat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مدیسین هت”
  • Spanish: “Medicine Hat (Alberta)”
  • Spanish: “Medicine Hat”
  • Swahili: “Medicine Hat, Alberta”
  • Swahili: “Medicine Hat”
  • Swedish: “Medicine Hat”
  • Tamil: “மெடிசின் ஹாட்”
  • Tatar: “Медисин-Һат”
  • Telugu: “మెడిసిన్ హ్యాట్”
  • Thai: “เมดิซีน แฮต”
  • Turkish: “Medicine Hat”
  • Ukrainian: “Медисин-Гат”
  • Ukrainian: “Медисин-Гет”
  • Urdu: “میڈیسن ہیٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Medicine Hat”
  • Volapük: “Medicine Hat”
  • Welsh: “Medicine Hat”
  • Western Panjabi: “میڈیسن ہیٹ”
  • Yue Chinese: “美迪辛哈”

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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 “Medicine Hat”. Photo: Festbock, CC BY-SA 3.0.