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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  • City with 147,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 85 feet (26 metres)
  • Description: city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States
  • Postal codes
    07501-07505
    07509
    07510
    07513
    07514
    07522
    07524
    07533
    07543
    07544
  • Also known as
    “Great Falls”
    “Manchester”
    “New Manchester”
    “Paterson, New Jersey”
    “Paterson, NJ”
    “Totowa”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hinchliffe Stadium and Paterson Museum.
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is a 10,000-seat located in Paterson, New Jersey.
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is a in Paterson, in , , in the .
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The Great Falls of the Passaic River is a 77-foot-high…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haledon and Totowa.
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is a borough in , in the U.S. state of .
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is a borough in , in the U.S. state of .
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is a borough in , in the U.S. state of .

Paterson

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Latitude
40.9168° or 40° 55′ 0″ north
Longitude
-74.1718° or 74° 10′ 19″ west
UN/LOCODE
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: “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”
  • Marathi: “पॅटर्सन, न्यू जर्सी”
  • 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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