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Paterson

Paterson is third largest city, and hosts a great attraction: the Great Falls, which are very extensive and second only to Niagara Falls in terms of volume of water in waterfalls east of the Mississippi.
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  • Type: City with 147,000 residents
  • Description: city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Great Falls”, “Manchester”, “New Manchester”, “Paterson, New Jersey”, “Paterson, NJ”, and “Totowa”
  • Postal codes: 07501-07505, 07509, 07510, 07513, 07514, 07522, 07524, 07533, 07543, and 07544
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Falls and Paterson Museum.

Waterfall
Photo: Decumanus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The of the Passaic River is a prominent waterfall, 77 feet high, on the in the city of Paterson in , .

Museum
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is a in Paterson, in , , in the . Founded in 1925, it is owned and run by the city of Paterson and its mission is to preserve and display the industrial history of Paterson.

Stadium
Photo: Oknazevad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 7,500-seat located in Paterson, New Jersey. The stadium is located atop the of the , and is part of the surrounding National Historical Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haledon and Totowa.

Village
Photo: Jared Kofsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 9,052, an increase of 734 from the 2010 census count of 8,318, which in turn reflected an increase of 66 from the 8,252 counted in the 2000 census.

Town
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is a borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 11,065, an increase of 261 from the 2010 census count of 10,804, which in turn reflected an increase of 912 from the 9,892 counted in the 2000 census.

Town
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is a borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 19,637, an increase of 846 from the 2010 census count of 18,791, which in turn reflected an increase of 573 from the 18,218 counted in the 2000 census.

Paterson

Latitude
40.9168° or 40° 55′ 0″ north
Longitude
-74.1718° or 74° 10′ 19″ west
Population
147,000
Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US PAT
Open location code
87G7WR8H+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158855679
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5102466
Wiki­data ID
Q138391
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Paterson” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باترسون”
  • Armenian: “Պատերսոն”
  • Aymara: “Paterson”
  • Azerbaijani: “Paterson”
  • Balinese: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Balinese: “Paterson”
  • Basque: “Paterson”
  • Belarusian: “Патэрсан”
  • Bengali: “প্যাটারসন”
  • Breton: “Paterson”
  • Bulgarian: “Патерсън”
  • Bulgarian: “Патърсън”
  • Catalan: “Paterson”
  • Cebuano: “Paterson”
  • Central Kurdish: “پاتێرسۆن”
  • Chechen: “Патерсон”
  • Chinese: “Paterson”
  • Chinese: “帕特森”
  • Chinese: “帕特生”
  • Cornish: “Paterson, Jersi Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Paterson”
  • Czech: “Paterson”
  • Dagbani: “Paterson”
  • Danish: “Paterson”
  • Dutch: “Paterson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پاتيرسون (نيو چيرسى)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پاتيرسون”
  • Esperanto: “Paterson”
  • Estonian: “Paterson”
  • Finnish: “Paterson”
  • French: “Paterson”
  • Galician: “Paterson, Nova Jersey”
  • Galician: “Paterson”
  • Georgian: “პატერსონი”
  • German: “Paterson”
  • Gilaki: “پيترسن (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “پيترسن”
  • Greek: “Πάτερσον”
  • Gujarati: “પિટરસન”
  • Haitian: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Paterson”
  • Hebrew: “פטרסון”
  • Hindi: “पैटरसन”
  • Hungarian: “Paterson”
  • Icelandic: “Paterson”
  • Indonesian: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Indonesian: “Paterson”
  • Interlingua: “Paterson”
  • Irish: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Irish: “Paterson”
  • Italian: “Paterson”
  • Japanese: “パターソン (ニュー・ジャージー州)”
  • Japanese: “パターソン (ニュージャージー州)”
  • Japanese: “パターソン”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾಟರ್ಸನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Патэрсон”
  • Kirghiz: “Патэрсон”
  • Korean: “패터슨”
  • Ladin: “Paterson”
  • Latvian: “Patersona”
  • Lithuanian: “Patersonas”
  • Low German: “Paterson”
  • Luxembourgish: “Paterson”
  • Malay: “Paterson”
  • Marathi: “पीटरसन”
  • Mazanderani: “پترسون (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “پترسون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Paterson”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paterson”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paterson”
  • Norwegian: “Paterson”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Paterson”
  • Ossetian: “Патерсон”
  • Persian: “پترسون، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “پترسون”
  • Piemontese: “Paterson (New Jersey)”
  • Piemontese: “Paterson”
  • Polish: “Paterson”
  • Portuguese: “Paterson”
  • Quechua: “Paterson”
  • Romanian: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Romanian: “Paterson”
  • Russian: “Патерсон”
  • Scots: “Paterson”
  • Serbian: “Патерсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Paterson”
  • Silesian: “Paterson”
  • Sinhala: “පීටර්සන්”
  • Slovak: “Paterson”
  • Slovenian: “Paterson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پئیترزون، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Paterson (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Paterson”
  • Swahili: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Swahili: “Paterson, NJ”
  • Swahili: “Paterson”
  • Swedish: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Swedish: “Paterson”
  • Tagalog: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Tagalog: “Paterson”
  • Tamil: “படேர்சன், நியூ செர்சி”
  • Tamil: “படேர்சன்”
  • Tatar: “Патерсон”
  • Telugu: “పీటర్సన్, న్యూ జెర్సీ”
  • Thai: “แพเทอร์สัน”
  • Turkish: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Turkish: “Paterson”
  • Ukrainian: “Патерсон”
  • Urdu: “پیٹرسن، نیو جرسی”
  • Urdu: “پیٹرسن”
  • Vietnamese: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Vietnamese: “Paterson”
  • Volapük: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Paterson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paterson”
  • Welsh: “Paterson, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Paterson”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕特森（新泽西州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕特森”

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