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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is a popular, though often tacky and touristy honeymoon destination on the USA- border, approximately midway between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
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  • Type: Waterfall
  • Description: three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States
  • Also known as: “American Falls”, “Bridal Veil Falls”, “Canadian Falls”, “Niagra Falls”, “Niagra Falls, New York, US”, “The Niagara Falls”, and “The Niagra Falls”
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Niagara Falls

Latitude of center
43.0834° or 43° 5′ 0″ north
Longitude of center
-79.0663° or 79° 3′ 59″ west
Elevation
158 metres (518 feet)
Geo­Names ID
6087891
Wiki­data ID
Q34221
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Niagara Falls” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Niagara-waterval”
  • Afrikaans: “Niagara-watervalle”
  • Albanian: “Ujëvarat e Niagarës”
  • Amharic: “ናያግራ ፏፏቴዎች”
  • Arabic: “شلال نياجرا”
  • Arabic: “شلالات نياجارا”
  • Arabic: “شلالات نياجرا”
  • Arabic: “شلالات نياغارا”
  • Arabic: “شلالات نياقرا”
  • Aragonese: “Cadreitas d’o Niagara”
  • Aragonese: “Cataractas d’o Niagara”
  • Armenian: “Նիագարայի ջրվեժ”
  • Asturian: “Catarates del Niágara”
  • Asturian: “Les catarates de niagara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Niaqara şəlaləsi”
  • Bashkir: “Ниагара шарлауығы”
  • Basque: “Niagara ur-jauziak”
  • Basque: “Niagarako ur-jauziak”
  • Belarusian: “Ніагарскі вадапад”
  • Belarusian: “Ніагарскі вадаспад”
  • Belarusian: “Ніягарскі вадаспад”
  • Bengali: “নায়াগ্রা জলপ্রপাত”
  • Bosnian: “Niagarini vodopadi”
  • Bosnian: “Nijagarini vodopadi”
  • Breton: “Lammoù-dour an Niagara”
  • Breton: “Niagara”
  • Bulgarian: “Ниагара”
  • Bulgarian: “Ниагарски водопад”
  • Burmese: “နိုင်အာဂရာ ရေတံခွန်”
  • Catalan: “cascades del Niàgara”
  • Catalan: “Cascades del Niàgara”
  • Catalan: “Cataractes del Niàgara”
  • Cebuano: “Niagara Falls”
  • Central Bikol: “Busay Niagara”
  • Central Kurdish: “تاڤگەکانی نیاگارا”
  • Chinese: “Niagara Chúi-chhiâng”
  • Chinese: “Niagara falls”
  • Chinese: “尼亚加拉瀑布”
  • Chinese: “尼亞加拉大瀑布”
  • Chinese: “尼亞加拉瀑布”
  • Chinese: “尼亞加拉瀑布城”
  • Chinese: “尼加拉大瀑布”
  • Chinese: “尼加拉瀑布”
  • Chinese: “尼加拉瓜大瀑布”
  • Chinese: “尼加拉瓜瀑布”
  • Chuvash: “Ниагара”
  • Corsican: “cascati di u Niagara”
  • Croatian: “Slapovi Niagare”
  • Czech: “Niagarské vodopády”
  • Danish: “Niagara Falls”
  • Danish: “Niagara”
  • Danish: “Niagarafaldene”
  • Danish: “Niagaravandfaldene”
  • Dhivehi: “ނިއަގަރާ ފޯލް”
  • Dutch: “Niagara falls”
  • Dutch: “Niagara waterval”
  • Dutch: “Niagara watervallen”
  • Dutch: “Niagara-watervallen”
  • Dutch: “Niagarawaterval”
  • Dutch: “Niagarawatervallen”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ниагаре вӱдшуҥгалтыш”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شلالات نياجارا”
  • Esperanto: “Niagara Akvofalaro”
  • Esperanto: “Niagara akvofalo”
  • Esperanto: “Niagara Akvofalo”
  • Esperanto: “Niagara Akvofaloj”
  • Esperanto: “Niagra Falakvo”
  • Estonian: “Niagara juga”
  • Faroese: “Niagara Falls”
  • Faroese: “Niagarafossur”
  • Finnish: “Niagara Falls”
  • Finnish: “Niagaran putoukset”
  • French: “Chutes de Niagara”
  • French: “chutes du Niagara”
  • French: “Chutes du Niagara”
  • French: “Chutes Niagara”
  • Galician: “cataratas do Niágara”
  • Galician: “Cataratas do Niágara”
  • Galician: “fervenzas do Niágara”
  • Georgian: “ნიაგარა”
  • Georgian: “ნიაგარას ჩანჩქერი”
  • Georgian: “ნიაგარის ჩანჩქერი”
  • German: “Niagara-Fälle”
  • German: “Niagarafall”
  • German: “Niagarafälle”
  • Greek: “Καταρράκτες Νιαγάρα”
  • Greek: “Καταρράκτες του Νιαγάρα”
  • Hausa: “Niagara Falls”
  • Hawaiian: “Wailele ‘o Niakala”
  • Hawaiian: “Wailele ʻo Niakala”
  • Hebrew: “מפלי הניאגרה”
  • Hebrew: “מפלי ניאגרה”
  • Hindi: “नायाग्रा जल प्रपात”
  • Hindi: “नायाग्रा”
  • Hindi: “निआग्रा जल प्रपात”
  • Hindi: “नियाग्रा का जलप्रपात”
  • Hindi: “नियाग्रा जल प्रपात”
  • Hindi: “नियाग्रा जल-प्रपात”
  • Hindi: “नियाग्रा जलप्रपात”
  • Hungarian: “Niagara-vízesés”
  • Hungarian: “Niagara”
  • Icelandic: “Níagara-fossar”
  • Icelandic: “Níagarafossar”
  • Icelandic: “Niagrafossar”
  • Ido: “Katarakto di Niagara”
  • Indonesian: “Air terjun Niagara”
  • Indonesian: “Air Terjun Niagara”
  • Indonesian: “Niagara”
  • Interlingua: “Cascadas de Niagara”
  • Irish: “An tEas Niagara”
  • Irish: “Eas Niagara”
  • Italian: “cascate del Niagara”
  • Italian: “Cascate del Niagara”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nayagra Faalz”
  • Japanese: “ナイアガラの滝”
  • Japanese: “ナイアガラ滝”
  • Japanese: “ナイアガラ瀑布”
  • Javanese: “Niagara”
  • Kabiyè: “Niyagara lɩmfalɩyɛ”
  • Kannada: “ನಯಾಗರ ಜಲಪಾತ”
  • Kannada: “ನಯಾಗರಾ ಜಲಪಾತ”
  • Kazakh: “Ниагара сарқырамасы”
  • Kazakh: “Ниагара су құламасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Ниагара шаркыратмасы”
  • Korean: “나이아가라 폭포”
  • Kurdish: “Avşara Niagara”
  • Lao: “ນ້ຳຕົກຕາດນີອາກາລາ”
  • Latin: “Aquae cadentes Niagarenses”
  • Latin: “Niagarae cataracta”
  • Latvian: “Niagāras ūdenskritums”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cascades Niagara”
  • Literary Chinese: “尼亞加拉大瀑布”
  • Literary Chinese: “尼亞加拉瀑布”
  • Literary Chinese: “尼亞瓜拉大瀑布”
  • Literary Chinese: “尼亞瓜拉瀑布”
  • Lithuanian: “Niagaros krioklys”
  • Luxembourgish: “Niagarafäll”
  • Macedonian: “Нијагарини водопади”
  • Macedonian: “Нијагарски Водопади”
  • Malay: “Air Terjun Niagara”
  • Malayalam: “Niagara Falls”
  • Malayalam: “Niagra Falls”
  • Malayalam: “നയാഗ്ര വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം”
  • Marathi: “नायगारा धबधबा”
  • Marathi: “नायगारा धबधबे”
  • Marathi: “नायाग्रा धबधबा”
  • Mazanderani: “نياگارا(هورس شو)”
  • Mazanderani: “نیاگارا(هورس شو)”
  • Mazanderani: “نیاگارا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Niagara Chúi-chhiâng”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიაგარაშ წყარგელაფუ”
  • Mirandese: “Cachones de l Niágara”
  • Mongolian: “Ниагар хүрхрээ”
  • Mongolian: “Ниагара хүрхрээ”
  • Nepali: “नायगरा फल्स”
  • Nepali: “नायाग्रा झरना”
  • Newari: “नायाग्रा झ्वाला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Niagara Weederfaaler”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niagara Falls”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niagara-fallene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niagarafallene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niagarafalla”
  • Norwegian: “Niagarafallene”
  • Ossetian: “Ниагарæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਆਗਰਾ ਝਰਨਾ”
  • Persian: “آبشار نیاگارا”
  • Persian: “آبشارهای نیاگارا”
  • Persian: “ابشار نیاگارا”
  • Persian: “ابشارهای نیاگارا”
  • Polish: “Niagara”
  • Polish: “Wodospad Niagara”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas de Niagara”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas do Niágara”
  • Romanian: “Cascada Niagara”
  • Romanian: “Cascadele Niagara”
  • Romanian: “Cascadele râului Niagara”
  • Russian: “Ниагара”
  • Russian: “Ниагарские водопады”
  • Russian: “Ниагарский водопад”
  • Samogitian: “Les Chutes du Niagara”
  • Samogitian: “Niagara Falls”
  • Samogitian: “Niagaras kriuoklīs”
  • Sardinian: “Ispèndulas de su Niagara”
  • Scots: “Niagara Faws”
  • Serbian: “Нијагарини водопади”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nijagarini vodopadi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Slapovi Niagare”
  • Sicilian: “Cascati dû Niagara”
  • Sindhi: “نياگرا آبشار”
  • Slovak: “Niagarské vodopády”
  • Slovenian: “Niagara Falls”
  • Slovenian: “Niagarski slap”
  • Slovenian: “Niagarski slapovi”
  • Somali: “Biyo-dhaca Niagara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیاقارا شلاله سی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیاقارا شلاله‌لری”
  • Spanish: “Cataratas del Niágara”
  • Swahili: “Maporomoko ya Niagara”
  • Swedish: “Niagara fallet”
  • Swedish: “Niagara Falls”
  • Swedish: “Niagara”
  • Swedish: “Niagarafall”
  • Swedish: “Niagarafallen”
  • Tagalog: “Niagara Falls”
  • Tagalog: “Talon ng Niagara”
  • Tamil: “நயகாரா நீர்வீழ்ச்சி”
  • Tamil: “நயாகரா அருவி”
  • Tamil: “நயாகரா நீர்வீழ்ச்சி”
  • Tamil: “நாயகரா நீர்வீழ்ச்சி”
  • Tatar: “Ниагара шарлавыгы”
  • Telugu: “నయాగర జలపాతం”
  • Telugu: “నయాగరా జలపాతం”
  • Thai: “น้ำตกไนแอการา”
  • Thai: “น้ำตกไนแองการา”
  • Thai: “ไนแอการา”
  • Thai: “ไนแองการา”
  • Turkish: “Atnalı Şelalesi”
  • Turkish: “Niagara şelaleleri”
  • Turkish: “Niagara Şelaleleri”
  • Turkish: “Niagara Şelalesi”
  • Turkish: “Niyagara Çağlayanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніагара”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніаґара”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніагарський водоспад”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Niagaraske wodopady”
  • Urdu: “نیاگرا آبشار”
  • Uzbek: “Niagara sharsharasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Các thác nước Niagra”
  • Vietnamese: “Thác Niagara”
  • Vietnamese: “Thác Niagra”
  • Võro: “Niagara viisadang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Busay Niagara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mga Busay Niagara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Niagara Falls”
  • Welsh: “Rhaeadr Niagara”
  • Western Frisian: “Niagara”
  • Western Frisian: “Niagarawetterfal”
  • Western Frisian: “Niagarawetterfallen”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیاگرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “Niagara 瀑布”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼亚伽拉瀑布”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼亚加拉瀑布”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼亞加拉瀑布”
  • Yakut: “Ниагара Фолс”
  • Yiddish: “ניאגארא פאלס”
  • Yiddish: “ניאגרא פאלס”
  • Yiddish: “נייאגרא”
  • Yue Chinese: “Niagara Falls”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼亞加拉大瀑布”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼亞加拉瀑布”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼加拉大瀑布”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼加拉瀑布”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼加拉瓜大瀑布”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼加拉瓜瀑布”
  • “Niagara viisadang”
  • “Niagaras kriuoklīs”

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