Point Roberts
Point Roberts is a small community in the Northwest Washington region of the state of Washington, a tiny piece of the U.S. where the only road in or out is through Canada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,190 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Whatcom County, Washington State, United States
- Also known as: “Point Roberts, WA” and “Point Roberts, Washington”
- Postal code: 98281
Places of Interest
Highlights include Point Roberts Airpark and Point Roberts–Boundary Bay Border Crossing.
Point Roberts Airpark
Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Point Roberts Airpark is an airport with a single grass runway, located in the town of Point Roberts, Washington. The airport and the adjacent marina provide the only access to the rest of Washington state without first having to pass through British Columbia.
Point Roberts–Boundary Bay Border Crossing
Government office
Photo: Wbaron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Point Roberts–Boundary Bay Border Crossing connects the communities of Point Roberts, Washington, and Tsawwassen, British Columbia on the Canada–US border.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maple Beach and Boundary Bay.
Maple Beach
Neighborhood
Point Roberts is a pene-exclave of the US state of Washington on the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, south of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Boundary Bay
Neighborhood
Named for, and located adjacent to the bay of the same name, Boundary Bay is a residential neighbourhood in the community of Tsawwassen. Directly south of the neighbourhood, and across the international border, is the residential neighbourhood of Maple Beach, Washington, in Point Roberts, Washington.
Point Roberts
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States, pene-enclave, and locality
- Location: Whatcom, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.9847° or 48° 59′ 5″ northLongitude
-123.0678° or 123° 4′ 4″ westPopulation
1,190Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PRSOpen location code
84WRXWMJ+VVOpenStreetMap ID
node 150945473OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Point Roberts” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Poynt Roberts”
- Azerbaijani: “Poynt-Roberts”
- Basque: “Point Roberts”
- Catalan: “Point Roberts”
- Cebuano: “Point Roberts”
- Chechen: “Пойнт-Робертс”
- Chinese: “Point Roberts”
- Chinese: “罗伯茨角”
- Chinese: “羅伯茨角”
- Dagbani: “Point Roberts”
- Dutch: “Point Roberts”
- Finnish: “Point Roberts”
- French: “Point Roberts”
- German: “Point Roberts”
- Gilaki: “پؤینت رابرتس (واشينگتن)”
- Gilaki: “پؤینت رابرتس”
- Hungarian: “Point Roberts”
- Indonesian: “Point Roberts, Washington”
- Indonesian: “Point Roberts”
- Irish: “Point Roberts”
- Italian: “Point Roberts”
- Japanese: “ポイント・ロバーツ”
- Japanese: “ポイントロバーツ”
- Korean: “포인트 로버츠”
- Korean: “포인트로버츠”
- Kurdish: “Point Roberts”
- Ladin: “Point Roberts”
- Lithuanian: “Point Robertsas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Point Roberts”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Point Roberts”
- Norwegian: “Point Roberts”
- Persian: “پوینت رابرتز، واشینگتن”
- Persian: “پوینت رابرتز”
- Polish: “Point Roberts”
- Portuguese: “Point Roberts”
- Serbian: “Поинт Робертс”
- Serbian: “Појнт Робертс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Point Roberts, Washington”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Point Roberts”
- South Azerbaijani: “پوینت رابرتز، واشینقتون”
- Spanish: “Point Roberts (Washington)”
- Spanish: “Point Roberts”
- Swedish: “Point Roberts”
- Tatar: “Пойнт-Робертс”
- Turkish: “Point Roberts”
- Ukrainian: “Пойнт-Робертс”
- Uzbek: “Point Roberts”
- Vietnamese: “Point Roberts, Washington”
- Vietnamese: “Point Roberts”
- Volapük: “Point Roberts”
- Welsh: “Point Roberts, Washington”
- Welsh: “Point Roberts”
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