Southwest
Arizona
Coconino County

Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided carved by the in , United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile.
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  • Type: Valley with an elevation of 6,886 feet
  • Description: steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States
  • Also known as: “Cañon of Colorado”
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Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grand Canyon and O’Neill Butte.

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The is in northern , and is one of the great tourist attractions in the United States as well as one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

Peak
O'Neill Butte is a 6,071-foot -elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in of northern , . It is situated 2.5 miles east-northeast of Grand Canyon Village, one mile northeast of Mather Point, and one mile immediately northwest of Yaki Point.

Peak
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is a 5,401-foot-elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grand Canyon Village.

Village
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is a census-designated place located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, in , , United States. Its population was 2,004 at the 2010 Census.

Grand Canyon

Latitude
36.098° or 36° 5′ 53″ north
Longitude
-112.0963° or 112° 5′ 47″ west
Elevation
6,886 feet (2,099 metres)
Open location code
85893WX3+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150980731
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­valley
Wiki­data ID
Q118841
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Grand Canyon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Grand Canyon”
  • Albanian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Amharic: “ታላቁ ገደል”
  • Angika: “ग्रैन्ड कैन्यन”
  • Arabic: “الأخدود العظيم”
  • Arabic: “الجراندكانيون”
  • Arabic: “الخانق العظيم”
  • Arabic: “غراند كانيون”
  • Arabic: “منتزه غراند كانيون”
  • Aragonese: “Gran Cañón”
  • Aragonese: “Gran Canyón”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ կիրճ”
  • Assamese: “গ্ৰেণ্ড কেনিয়ন”
  • Asturian: “Gran Cañón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Kanyon”
  • Basque: “Arroila Handi”
  • Basque: “Arroila Handia”
  • Basque: “Coloradoren Arroila Handi”
  • Basque: “Coloradoren Arroila Handia”
  • Basque: “Grand Canyon”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Каньён”
  • Belarusian: “Гранд-Каньён”
  • Bengali: “গ্র্যান্ড ক্যানিয়ন”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग्रैंड कैनियन”
  • Bosnian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Breton: “Kanienn Veur”
  • Bulgarian: “Гранд Каньон”
  • Burmese: “ဂရင်းကင်ညွန်”
  • Catalan: “Gran Canyó del Colorado”
  • Catalan: “Gran Canyó”
  • Catalan: “Grand Canyon”
  • Central Kurdish: “گراند کەنیۆن”
  • Central Kurdish: “گرەند کەنیۆن”
  • Cherokee: “ᏗᎵᏍᏆᎸᏓ”
  • Chinese: “Grand Canyon”
  • Chinese: “大峽谷”
  • Chinese: “科罗拉多大峡谷”
  • Chinese: “科羅拉多大峽谷”
  • Cree: “ᐊᐢᑭᐦᑕᑳᐧ”
  • Croatian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Czech: “Grand Canyon”
  • Czech: “Velký kaňon”
  • Danish: “Grand Canyon”
  • Dhivehi: “ގްރޭންޑް ކެންޔަން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kanyono Gırd”
  • Dutch: “Grand Canyon South Rim”
  • Dutch: “Grand Canyon”
  • Dutch: “North Rim”
  • Dutch: “South Rim”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Kanjono de Kolorado”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Kanjono”
  • Esperanto: “Kanjono Granda”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia parko Grand Canyon”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia Parko Granda Kanjono”
  • Estonian: “Suur kanjon”
  • Faroese: “Grand Canyon”
  • Finnish: “Grand Canyon”
  • Finnish: “Iso kanjoni”
  • French: “Canyon du Colorado”
  • French: “Grand Canyon du Colorado”
  • French: “Grand Canyon”
  • Galician: “Gran Canón do Colorado”
  • Galician: “Gran Canón”
  • Gan Chinese: “大峡谷”
  • Gan Chinese: “大峽谷”
  • Georgian: “გრანდ კანიონი”
  • Georgian: “დიდი კანიონი”
  • German: “Grand Canyon”
  • Greek: “Γκραν Κάνιον”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gran Canyon”
  • Hausa: “Grand Canyon”
  • Hebrew: “גראנד קניון”
  • Hebrew: “גרנד קניון”
  • Hebrew: “הגראנד קניון”
  • Hebrew: “הגרנד קניון”
  • Hebrew: “הקניון הגדול”
  • Hindi: “ग्रैंड कैनियन”
  • Hindi: “ग्रैंड कैन्यन”
  • Hindi: “ग्रैन्ड कैन्यन”
  • Hungarian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Icelandic: “Miklagljúfur”
  • Ido: “Granda Ravinego”
  • Indonesian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Irish: “An Cainneon Mór”
  • Irish: “Cainneon Mór”
  • Italian: “Gran Canyon”
  • Italian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Italian: “Grande Canyon”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Gran Kianyan”
  • Japanese: “Grand Canyon”
  • Japanese: “グランド・キャニオン”
  • Japanese: “グランドキャニオン”
  • Javanese: “Grand Canyon”
  • Kabiyè: “Kujomuu sɔsɔʋ”
  • Kabyle: “Taɣit tameqqṛant”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ಕ್ಯಾನ್ಯನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Үлкен Каньон”
  • Kirghiz: “Чоң Каньон”
  • Korean: “그랜드 캐년”
  • Korean: “그랜드 캐니언”
  • Korean: “그랜드캐년”
  • Korean: “그랜드캐니언”
  • Korean: “그렌드 캐년”
  • Kurdish: “Kanyona Mezin”
  • Kurdish: “Zixura Mezin”
  • Kurdish: “کانیۆنا مەزن”
  • Ladin: “Grand Canyon”
  • Lao: “ກະລັງກັງຢົງ”
  • Latin: “Grand Canyon”
  • Latvian: “Lielais kanjons”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Canion Grande”
  • Lithuanian: “Didysis kanjonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Didysis Kolorado kanjonas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Grand Canyon”
  • Macedonian: “Голем Кањон”
  • Macedonian: “Големиот Кањон”
  • Malay: “Grand Canyon”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്രാൻഡ് കാന്യൻ”
  • Maltese: “Grand Canyon”
  • Maltese: “Kanjon il-Kbir”
  • Marathi: “ग्रँड कॅन्यन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Grand Canyon”
  • Navajo: “Bida’há’aazt’i‘ tsékoh”
  • Navajo: “Bidááʼ Haʼ Aztʼiʼ”
  • Navajo: “Bidááʼ Haʼaztʼiʼ Tsékooh”
  • Navajo: “Bidaʼháʼaaztʼiʼ tsékoh”
  • Newari: “ग्रान्द क्यानन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Canyon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grand Canyon”
  • Norwegian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Grand Canhon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Grand Canhòn”
  • Oromo: “Grand Canyon”
  • Ossetian: “Гранд-Каньон”
  • Ossetian: “Стыр каньон”
  • Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੈਂਡ ਕੈਨੀਓਨ”
  • Persian: “گرند کنیون”
  • Persian: “گرندکنیون”
  • Polish: “Grand Canyon”
  • Polish: “Wielki Kanion Kolorado”
  • Portuguese: “Grand Canyon”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Canyon”
  • Portuguese: “Parque nacional do grand canyon”
  • Romanian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Romanian: “Marele Canion”
  • Russian: “Большой каньон Колорадо”
  • Russian: “Большой каньон”
  • Russian: “Великий каньон”
  • Russian: “Гранд-Каньон”
  • Sakizaya: “tabakiay diheb”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Grand Canyon”
  • Serbian: “Veliki kanjon Kolorada”
  • Serbian: “Велики кањон Колорада”
  • Serbian: “Велики кањон”
  • Serbian: “Гранд кањон”
  • Serbian: “Кањон Колорадо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki kanjon Kolorada”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki kanjon”
  • Sicilian: “Granni Canyon”
  • Slovak: “Veľký kaňon”
  • Slovenian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Slovenian: “Veliki kanjon”
  • Spanish: “Canon del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “Canón del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “Cañon del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “Cañón del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “El Gran Canon del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “El Gran Canón del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “El Gran Cañon del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “El Gran Cañón del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “Gran Canon del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “Gran Canón del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “Gran Cañon del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “Gran Cañón del Colorado”
  • Spanish: “Gran Canon”
  • Spanish: “Gran Canón”
  • Spanish: “Gran Cañón”
  • Spanish: “Grand Canyon”
  • Spanish: “Informacion sobre el gran cañon del rio colorado”
  • Swahili: “Grand Canyon”
  • Swedish: “Grand Canyon nationalpark”
  • Swedish: “Grand Canyon”
  • Tamil: “கிராண்ட் கன்யன்”
  • Tamil: “மாபெரும் செங்குத்துப் பள்ளத்தாக்கு”
  • Telugu: “గ్రాండ్ కేనియన్”
  • Telugu: “గ్రాండ్ కేన్యన్”
  • Thai: “แกรนด์แคนยอน”
  • Thai: “แกรนด์เเคนยอน”
  • Turkish: “Büyük kanyon”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Kanyon”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий каньйон”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Каньйон”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Каньон”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Колорадський каньйон”
  • Ukrainian: “Гранд-каньйон”
  • Urdu: “گرینڈ کینین”
  • Uzbek: “Katta Kanyon”
  • Venetian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Vietnamese: “Grand Canyon”
  • Vietnamese: “Hẻm núi lớn”
  • Võro: “Suur Kanjon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Grand Canyon”
  • Welsh: “Grand Canyon”
  • Western Frisian: “Grand Canyon”
  • Wu Chinese: “科罗拉多大峡谷”
  • Yakut: “Гранд каньон”
  • Yakut: “Гранд-Каньон”
  • Yakut: “Улахан каньон”
  • Yue Chinese: “大峽谷”
  • “Suur kanjon”
  • “ग्रैंड कैनियन”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Grand Canyon”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Phantom Ranch and Devil’s Corkscrew.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Group Site 33 and Site 31.

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