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Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly the School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense school located at in , the school being renamed in the 2001 National Defense Authorization Act.
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  • Type: Government office
  • Description: United States military school
  • Also known as: “United States Army School of the Americas”, “WHINSEC”, and “WHISC”
  • Address: 7161 Richardson Circle, Fort Benning, GA 31905

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Infantry Museum.

Museum
Photo: The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center, CC BY 2.0.
The and Soldier Center is a museum located in , United States, just outside the Maneuver Center of Excellence at . is situated 1½ miles north of Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baker Village.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in . It is located southwest of the central business district of Downtown. The apartment complex in this neighbourhood has been demolished and is now the site of the new Arbour Village apartment community which is currently under construction. is situated 4½ miles north of Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

Latitude
32.36467° or 32° 21′ 53″ north
Longitude
-84.95543° or 84° 57′ 20″ west
Operator
United States Department of Defense
Open location code
864Q927V+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4665223090
Open­Street­Map feature
office=­government
Wiki­data ID
Q377499
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مدرسة الأمريكيتين”
  • Arabic: “معهد نصف الكرة الغربي للتعاون الأمني”
  • Belarusian: “Школа Амерык”
  • Catalan: “Escola de les Amèriques”
  • Chinese: “美國學校”
  • Chinese: “美洲學校”
  • Chinese: “西半球安全合作学院”
  • Chinese: “西半球安全合作機構”
  • Czech: “Institut západní polokoule pro bezpečnostní spolupráci”
  • Danish: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • Dutch: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدرسة الامريكيتين”
  • Esperanto: “Instituto de la Okcidenta Hemisfero por la Kunlaborado en Sekureco”
  • Finnish: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • French: “École des Amériques”
  • French: “École militaire des Amériques”
  • French: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • French: “WHINSEC”
  • Galician: “Escola das Américas”
  • Galician: “Instituto de Cooperación para a Seguridade Hemisférica”
  • German: “Escuela de las Americas”
  • German: “Escuela de las Américas”
  • German: “School of the Americas”
  • German: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • German: “WHINSEC”
  • Hebrew: “מכון חצי הכדור המערבי לשיתוף פעולה ביטחוני”
  • Italian: “istituto dell’Emisfero Occidentale per la Cooperazione alla Sicurezza”
  • Italian: “Istituto dell’emisfero occidentale per la cooperazione alla sicurezza”
  • Japanese: “西半球安全保障協力研究所”
  • Korean: “서반구안보협력합회”
  • Korean: “안보협력을 위한 서반구합회”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • Norwegian: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Escòla militara de las Americas”
  • Persian: “دانشکده قاره‌های آمریکا”
  • Portuguese: “Escola das Américas”
  • Russian: “Школа Америк”
  • Slovenian: “Inštitut za varnostno sodelovanje zahodne poloble”
  • Slovenian: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • Slovenian: “WHINSEC”
  • Slovenian: “WHISC”
  • Spanish: “Instituto del Hemisferio Occidental para la Cooperacion en Seguridad”
  • Spanish: “Instituto del Hemisferio Occidental para la Cooperación en Seguridad”
  • Swedish: “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”
  • Ukrainian: “Школа Америк”

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Highlights include Sacrifice Field and The 1918 Club.

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