Nags Head

Nags Head is a city on the . Legend has it that the names comes from when pirates used to put a lantern around a horse's neck and walk along the beach.
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  • Type: Town with 3,050 residents
  • Description: town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Nag’s Head”, “Nags Head (Carolina del Norte)”, “Nags Head, NC”, “Nags Head, North Carolina”, “Нагс Ҳеад”, “내그스헤드 (노스캐롤라이나주)”, and “ナグスヘッド（ノースカロライナ州）”
  • Postal code: 27959

Places of Interest

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Park
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Jockey's Ridge State Park is a North Carolina state…

Hospital
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is a critical access hospital…

Disaster remains
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was an iron-hulled gunboat of the United States Navy.

Nags Head

Latitude
35.9574° or 35° 57′ 27″ north
Longitude
-75.6241° or 75° 37′ 27″ west
Population
3,050
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US KQV
Open location code
8776X94G+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158243585
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4481427
Wiki­data ID
Q2028067
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Nags Head” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ناغس هيد”
  • Arabic: “ناغس”
  • Basque: “Nags Head”
  • Catalan: “Nags Head”
  • Cebuano: “Nags Head”
  • Chechen: “Нагс-Гед”
  • Chinese: “納格斯黑德”
  • Chinese: “纳格斯黑德”
  • Dagbani: “Nags Head”
  • Dutch: “Nags Head”
  • French: “Nags Head”
  • German: “Nags Head”
  • Gilaki: “ناگس هد (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “ناگس هد”
  • Greek: “Ναγκς Χεντ (Βόρεια Καρολίνα)”
  • Greek: “Ναγκς Χεντ”
  • Haitian: “Nags Head, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hungarian: “Nags Head”
  • Italian: “Nags Head”
  • Japanese: “ナグスヘッド”
  • Korean: “내그스헤드”
  • Ladin: “Nags Head”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nags Head”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nags Head”
  • Norwegian: “Nags Head”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Naggeshēafod”
  • Persian: “نگ هد”
  • Polish: “Nags Head”
  • Portuguese: “Nags Head”
  • Russian: “Нагс Хед”
  • Serbian: “Нагс Хед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nags Head, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nags Head”
  • Spanish: “Nags Head”
  • Tatar: “Нагс-Гед”
  • Ukrainian: “Нагс-Гед”
  • Urdu: “نیگز ہیڈ، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Nags Head”
  • Volapük: “Nags Head”

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