Mercer Island
Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, consisting entirely of an island in Lake Washington. Once known as "East Seattle", it has become one of the region's most upscale residential communities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 25,700 residents
- Description: city in King County, Washington State, USA
- Also known as: “Mercer Island, WA” and “Mercer Island, Washington”
- Postal code: 98040
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mercer Island station and Aubrey Davis Park.
Mercer Island station
Railway station
Mercer Island station is a future light rail station on the 2 Line of the Link light rail network operated by Sound Transit. It will serve the city of Mercer Island and is located in the median of Interstate 90 at the north end of the island.
Aubrey Davis Park
Park
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Aubrey Davis Park, formerly the Mercer Island Lid and First Hill Lid, is a park lid covering 2,800 feet of Interstate 90 between West Mercer Way and 76th Avenue Southeast on Mercer Island, Washington, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Seattle and Bellevue.
South Seattle
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South Seattle is a broad swath of the city between I-5 to the west and Lake Washington to the east. It is the most ethnically diverse part of not only Seattle, but arguably of the entire United States: the area served by the 98188 ZIP Code, roughly the eastern half of this district, consistently ranks among the country's most diverse postal codes.
Bellevue
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Bellevue is a city in the Puget Sound region of Washington state, just across Lake Washington from Seattle. Bellevue had a population of 150,000 in 2021, making it the largest city on the Eastside of King County.
Beaux Arts Village
Village
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Beaux Arts is a town located in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States. It is the smallest municipality in the county, with a population of 317 as of the 2020 census and a land area of 0.1 sq mi.
Mercer Island
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.5766° or 47° 34′ 36″ northLongitude
-122.2276° or 122° 13′ 40″ westPopulation
25,700Elevation
335 feet (102 metres)Named after
Thomas MercerUnited Nations Location Code
US MQZOpen location code
84VVHQGC+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 30422625OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5803139Wikidata ID
Q954095
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mercer Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميرسير آيلاند”
- Armenian: “Մերսեր Այլենդ”
- Belarusian: “Мерсер-Айленд”
- Bulgarian: “Мърсър Айланд”
- Catalan: “Mercer Island”
- Cebuano: “Mercer Island”
- Chechen: “Мерсер-Айленд”
- Chinese: “Mercer Island”
- Chinese: “默瑟岛”
- Chinese: “默瑟島”
- Croatian: “Mercer Island”
- Czech: “Mercer Island”
- Danish: “Mercer Island”
- Dutch: “Mercer Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميرسير آيلاند”
- French: “Mercer Island”
- German: “Mercer Island”
- Gilaki: “مرسر آیلند (واشينگتن)”
- Gilaki: “مرسر آیلند”
- Haitian: “Mercer Island, Washington”
- Haitian: “Mercer Island”
- Hebrew: “מרסר איילנד”
- Hungarian: “Mercer Island”
- Irish: “Mercer Island”
- Italian: “Mercer Island”
- Japanese: “マーサーアイランド”
- Korean: “머서아일랜드”
- Ladin: “Mercer Island”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mercer Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mercer Island”
- Norwegian: “Mercer Island”
- Persian: “مرسرآیلند، واشینگتن”
- Persian: “مرسرآیلند”
- Polish: “Mercer Island”
- Portuguese: “Mercer Island”
- Russian: “Мерсер-Айленд (Вашингтон)”
- Russian: “Мерсер-Айленд”
- Serbian: “Мерсер Ајланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mercer Island, Washington”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mercer Island”
- Slovak: “Mercer Island”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرسرآیلند، واشینقتون”
- Spanish: “Mercer Island (Washington)”
- Spanish: “Mercer Island”
- Swedish: “Mercer Island, Washington”
- Swedish: “Mercer Island”
- Tatar: “Мерсер-Айленд”
- Turkish: “Lake Forest Park”
- Turkish: “Mercer Island, Washington”
- Turkish: “Mercer Island”
- Ukrainian: “Мерсер-Айленд”
- Urdu: “مرسر جزیرہ، واشنگٹن”
- Uzbek: “Mercer Island”
- Vietnamese: “Mercer Island, Washington”
- Vietnamese: “Mercer Island”
- Volapük: “Mercer Island”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mercer Island, Washington”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mercer Island”
- Welsh: “Mercer Island, Washington”
- Welsh: “Mercer Island”
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