Fort Smith
Fort Smith is a town of 2,500 people on the Slave River in the Northwest Territories near the Alberta border. Fort Smith provides various services to Wood Buffalo National Park visitors.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,250 residents
- Description: town in Northwest Territories, Canada
- Also known as: “Fort Smith, Northwest Territories”, “Fort Smith, NWT”, and “Thebacha”
- Neighbors: Fort Chipewyan
Places of Interest
Highlights include Northern Life Museum and Joseph Burr Tyrrell Elementary School.
Northern Life Museum
Museum
The Northern Life Museum is in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. The museum has a collection of over 13,000 artifacts representing the peoples and history of the North.
Joseph Burr Tyrrell Elementary School
School
Photo: Mkenn009, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Joseph Burr Tyrrell Elementary School is an elementary school in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada, and is named for the explorer Joseph Tyrrell.
Paul William Kaeser High School
School
Photo: Mkenn009, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paul William Kaeser High School is a high school in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. The school, along with Joseph Burr Tyrrell Elementary School, is overseen by the Fort Smith District Education Authority and administered by the South Slave Divisional Education Council.
Fort Smith
- Categories: municipality and locality
- Location: Fort Smith, South Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
60.0059° or 60° 0′ 21″ northLongitude
-111.8903° or 111° 53′ 25″ westPopulation
2,250Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)IATA airport code
YSMUnited Nations Location Code
CA FSMOpen location code
95GC2445+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 51972796OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5955954Wikidata ID
Q686415
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Fort Smith” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حصن سميث”
- Armenian: “Ֆորթ Սմիթ”
- Asturian: “Fort Smith”
- Belarusian: “Форт-Сміт”
- Belarusian: “Форт-Сьміт”
- Bulgarian: “Форт Смит”
- Cebuano: “Fort Smith”
- Chinese: “史密斯堡”
- Danish: “Fort Smith”
- Dutch: “Fort Smith, Northwest Territories”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن سميث”
- Esperanto: “Fort Smith (Nordokcidentaj Teritorioj)”
- Esperanto: “Fort Smith”
- Estonian: “Fort Smith”
- French: “Fort Smith”
- German: “Fort Smith”
- Italian: “Fort Smith”
- Japanese: “フォートスミス (ノースウエスト準州)”
- Korean: “포트 스미스”
- Korean: “포트스미스”
- Lithuanian: “Fort Smitas”
- Persian: “فورت اسمیت”
- Polish: “Fort Smith”
- Portuguese: “Fort Smith”
- Romanian: “Fort Smith”
- Russian: “Форт-Смит”
- Slovenian: “Fort Smith”
- Spanish: “Fort Smith (Territorios del Noroeste)”
- Spanish: “Fort Smith”
- Swedish: “Fort Smith, Northwest Territories”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Сміт”
- “Fort Smith”
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