Nahant

Nahant is a small town in the state of with a population of about 3,000. It used to be a resort town, but changes in vacation preference and modes of travel left the town behind.
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  • Type: Town with 3,550 residents
  • Description: town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Nahant (Massachusetts)”, “Nahant, MA”, “Nahant, Mass.”, and “Nahant, Massachusetts”
  • Postal code: 01908

Places of Interest

Highlights: Castle Rock and Nahant Rock.

Islet
Photo: Alfred Thompson Bricher, Public domain.
is a barren, uninhabited island located in in Nahant, Massachusetts.

Islet
Photo: natematias, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Egg Rock in near Nahant, Massachusetts is a small island at.

Cemetery
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is a historic cemetery at 195 Nahant Road in Nahant, Massachusetts.

Nahant

Latitude
42.4265° or 42° 25′ 35″ north
Longitude
-70.9189° or 70° 55′ 8″ west
Population
3,550
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US N5H
Open location code
87JFC3GJ+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158908112
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4944875
Wiki­data ID
Q665163
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Nahant” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Nahant”
  • Catalan: “Nahant”
  • Cebuano: “Nahant”
  • Chechen: “Нагант”
  • Chinese: “納漢特”
  • Chinese: “纳汉特”
  • Czech: “Nahant”
  • Dagbani: “Nahant”
  • Danish: “Nahant”
  • Dutch: “Nahant”
  • French: “Nahant”
  • German: “Nahant”
  • Haitian: “Nahant, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Nahant”
  • Hebrew: “נהנט”
  • Hungarian: “Nahant”
  • Irish: “Nahant”
  • Italian: “Nahant”
  • Kazakh: “Нахант”
  • Kirghiz: “Нахант”
  • Mazanderani: “ناهان (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “ناهان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nahant”
  • Norwegian: “Nahant”
  • Persian: “ناهان”
  • Persian: “ناهانت، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “ناهانت”
  • Polish: “Nahant”
  • Portuguese: “Nahant”
  • Russian: “Нахант”
  • Serbian: “Nahant”
  • Serbian: “Нахант”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nahant, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nahant”
  • Slovak: “Nahant”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ناهانت، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Nahant”
  • Swahili: “Nahant, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Nahant”
  • Swedish: “Nahant”
  • Tatar: “Нагант”
  • Turkish: “Nahant”
  • Ukrainian: “Нагант”
  • Urdu: “ناہانٹ، میساچوسٹس”
  • Volapük: “Nahant”
  • Welsh: “Nahant, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Nahant”
  • “Nahant”

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