White Sands Missile Range
White Sands Missile Range is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: military testing area in New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range”, “Alamogordo Bombing Range”, “New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range”, “White Sands Proving Ground”, “WSMR”, and “WSPG”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include White Sands.
White Sands
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
White Sands is a census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. It consists of the main residential area on the White Sands Missile Range.
White Sands Missile Range
- Categories: spaceport, bombing range, unincorporated community, and locality
- Location: Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.37997° or 32° 22′ 48″ northLongitude
-106.48365° or 106° 29′ 1″ westOpen location code
854M9GH8+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 12468504814OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q1694811
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“White Sands Missile Range” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميدان صواريخ وايت ساندز”
- Bulgarian: “Уайт Сандс”
- Catalan: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Chinese: “白沙导弹靶场”
- Czech: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Danish: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Dutch: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Finnish: “White Sands Missile Range”
- French: “centre de lancement de White Sands”
- French: “Polygone d’essai de missile de White Sands”
- German: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Hebrew: “מטווח הטילים וייט סנדס”
- Hungarian: “White Sands Rakétakísérleti Telep”
- Hungarian: “WSMR”
- Japanese: “ホワイトサンズ・ミサイル実験場”
- Korean: “화이트 샌드 미사일 레인지”
- Korean: “화이트샌즈 미사일 실험장”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Norwegian: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Persian: “حوزه موشکی وایت سندز”
- Polish: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Portuguese: “Campo de Teste de Mísseis de White Sands”
- Portuguese: “Linha de Mísseis de White Sands”
- Russian: “Уайт-Сэндс (полигон)”
- Russian: “Уайт-Сэндс”
- Slovak: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Slovenian: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Slovenian: “WSMR”
- Spanish: “Campo de Misiles de Arenas Blancas”
- Spanish: “Campo de misiles White Sands”
- Swedish: “White Sands Missile Range”
- Ukrainian: “Ракетний полігон «Вайт Сендс»”
- Vietnamese: “Bãi thử nghiệm tên lửa White Sands”
- Vietnamese: “WSMR”
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