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Norristown

Norristown is a small residential borough in Montgomery County, in the Philadelphia-Camden metro area. The town is about 6 miles outside of , between two greater communities of and .
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  • Type: City with 35,700 residents
  • Description: county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Also known as: “Norris”, “Norristown, PA”, “Norristown, Pennsylvania”, and “Norriton Plantation”
  • Postal codes: 19401, 19403, and 19404

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elmwood Park Zoo and Bridgeport station.

Zoo
is a zoo located in Norristown, .

Railway station
Photo: Drew Jacksich, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a SEPTA Metro rapid transit station in . It serves the M. The station is located on Sixth Street near DeKalb Street, although SEPTA's official website gives the address as being near 5th and Merion Streets.

Railway station
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, formerly known as King Manor station, is a SEPTA Metro rapid transit station in . It serves the M and is located on Ford Street near DeKalb Street, although SEPTA gives the address as Ford Street and Crooked Lane.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Norriton and King of Prussia.

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is a town in , . has a rich history that dates back to the 1600s when William Penn included it in one of the early manors called Williamstadt.

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is a suburban community in the greater region of in . It is northwest of Philadelphia proper.

Town
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Norristown is a small residential borough in Montgomery County, in the Philadelphia-Camden metro area. The town is about 6 miles outside of , between two greater communities of and .

Norristown

Latitude
40.1149° or 40° 6′ 54″ north
Longitude
-75.3434° or 75° 20′ 36″ west
Population
35,700
Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US UXQ
Open location code
87G64M74+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158363682
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5203506
Wiki­data ID
Q1010236
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Norristown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نوريستاون”
  • Azerbaijani: “Noristaun”
  • Basque: “Norristown”
  • Bulgarian: “Нористаун”
  • Catalan: “Norristown”
  • Cebuano: “Norristown”
  • Chechen: “Норристаун”
  • Chinese: “Norristown”
  • Chinese: “诺里斯敦”
  • Chinese: “諾利斯敦”
  • Chinese: “諾里斯敦”
  • Cornish: “Norristown, Pennsylvani”
  • Cornish: “Norristown”
  • Czech: “Norristown”
  • Dagbani: “Norristown”
  • Danish: “Norristown”
  • Dutch: “Norristown”
  • Finnish: “Norristown”
  • French: “Norristown”
  • German: “Norristown”
  • Gilaki: “نؤریس‌تاؤن (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “نؤریس‌تاؤن”
  • Greek: “Νόρισταουν”
  • Hebrew: “נוריסטאוון”
  • Hungarian: “Norristown”
  • Indonesian: “Norristown, Pennsylvania”
  • Indonesian: “Norristown”
  • Irish: “Norristown”
  • Italian: “Norristown”
  • Japanese: “ノーリスタウン”
  • Japanese: “ノリスタウン”
  • Korean: “노리스타운”
  • Ladin: “Norristown”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Norristown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Norristown”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norristown”
  • Persian: “نوریس‌تاون”
  • Polish: “Norristown”
  • Portuguese: “Norristown”
  • Russian: “Норристаун”
  • Scots: “Norristown”
  • Serbian: “Нористаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Norristown, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Norristown”
  • Silesian: “Norristown”
  • Slovenian: “Norristown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوریس‌تاون، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Spanish: “Norristown (Pensilvania)”
  • Spanish: “Norristown”
  • Swedish: “Norristown”
  • Tatar: “Норристаун”
  • Turkish: “Norristown”
  • Ukrainian: “Норрістаун”
  • Urdu: “نورس ٹاؤن، پنسلوانیا”
  • Urdu: “نورس ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Norristown”
  • Vietnamese: “Norristown, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Norristown”
  • Volapük: “Norristown”
  • Welsh: “Norristown, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Norristown”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Norristown”. Photo: Montgomery County Planning Commission, CC BY-SA 2.0.