New York
Mid-Hudson & Catskills
Dutchess County

Poughkeepsie

Poughkeepsie is the name of both a town and a city in in New York's . The City of Poughkeepsie is along the Hudson River on its eastern shore, where the river marks the boundary of the city and of the county.
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  • Type: City with 31,600 residents
  • Description: city in New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Pochkeepsie”, “Poughkeepsie, New York”, and “Poughkeepsie, NY”
  • Postal codes: 12601-12604

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vassar Brothers Medical Center and Poughkeepsie station.

Hospital
is a 350-bed not-for-profit overlooking the in Poughkeepsie, New York. It is part of the Northwell Health healthcare network and is the major medical center in .

Railway station
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak stop serving the city of Poughkeepsie, New York. The station is the northern terminus of Metro-North's Hudson Line, and an intermediate stop for Amtrak's several Empire Corridor trains.

Museum
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mid-Hudson Discovery Museum is a children's museum in the Hudson River Valley between the larger and Albany markets. It was formerly known as the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, until the range of children it serves was extended to age 12 in 2022.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Highland and Fairview.

Town
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet in , , United States. The population was 6,385 at the 2020 census. It is part of the New York City Combined Statistical area.

Town
is a hamlet and census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 5,475 at the 2020 US census, down from 5,515 at the 2010 census.

Town
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is a neighborhood and census-designated place in the town of , , , and United States. At the 2010 census, the CDP population was 4,061.

Poughkeepsie

Latitude
41.7066° or 41° 42′ 24″ north
Longitude
-73.9284° or 73° 55′ 42″ west
Population
31,600
Elevation
203 feet (62 metres)
IATA airport code
POU
United Nations Location Code
US POU
Open location code
87H8P34C+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 58591230
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5132143
Wiki­data ID
Q178093
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Poughkeepsie” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بكبسي”
  • Armenian: “Պոուկպիզի”
  • Armenian: “Փոքիփսի”
  • Basque: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Belarusian: “Поўкіпзі”
  • Bengali: “পোকেপ্সি”
  • Bulgarian: “Пъкипсий”
  • Catalan: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Cebuano: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Chechen: “Поукипзи”
  • Chinese: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Chinese: “波基普西”
  • Chinese: “波啟浦夕”
  • Croatian: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Czech: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Dagbani: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Danish: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Dutch: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بكبسى”
  • Esperanto: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Finnish: “Poughkeepsie”
  • French: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Georgian: “პოუკიპზი”
  • German: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Gilaki: “پافکيپسي (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “پافکيپسي”
  • Greek: “Πακίπσι”
  • Gujarati: “પોઘકીપ્સી”
  • Haitian: “Poughkeepsie, New York”
  • Haitian: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Hebrew: “פוקיפסי”
  • Hindi: “पोहकीप्सी”
  • Hungarian: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Ido: “Poughkeepsie, Nova-York”
  • Ido: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Indonesian: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Irish: “Poughkeepsie, Nua-Eabhrac”
  • Irish: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Italian: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Japanese: “ホキプシー (ニューヨーク州)”
  • Japanese: “ポキプシー (ニューヨーク州の市)”
  • Japanese: “ポキプシー”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊವ್ಘ್ ಕೀಪ್ಸೈ”
  • Korean: “포킵시”
  • Ladin: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Latin: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Latvian: “Poukipsi”
  • Lithuanian: “Poukipsis”
  • Malay: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Malayalam: “പൗഗ്കീപ്‌സി”
  • Maltese: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Marathi: “पोघकिप्सी”
  • Mazanderani: “پاکیپسی (نیویورک)”
  • Mazanderani: “پاکیپسی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Norwegian: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Persian: “پوکیپسی”
  • Persian: “پوگکیپسی، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “پوگکیپسی”
  • Polish: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Portuguese: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Russian: “Покипси”
  • Russian: “Поукипзи”
  • Serbian: “Покипси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poughkeepsie, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Sinhala: “පෝකීප්සි”
  • Slovak: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Slovenian: “Poughkeepsie”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پوکیپسی، نیویورک”
  • Spanish: “Poughkeepsie (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Swahili: “Poughkeepsie, New York”
  • Swahili: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Swedish: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Tagalog: “Poughkeepsie, New York”
  • Tagalog: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Tajik: “Поугкипси,Ню-Йорк”
  • Tajik: “Поугкипси”
  • Tamil: “பாகிப்ஸீ”
  • Tatar: “Поукипзи”
  • Telugu: “పౌగ్కీప్సీ”
  • Thai: “โพห์คิปซี”
  • Turkish: “Poughkeepsie, New York”
  • Turkish: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Ukrainian: “Поукіпзі”
  • Ukrainian: “Пукіпсі”
  • Urdu: “پوکیپسی”
  • Urdu: “پیکپسی، نیو یارک”
  • Vietnamese: “Poughkeepsie, New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Volapük: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Poughkeepsie, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Poughkeepsie”
  • Welsh: “Poughkeepsie, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Poughkeepsie”
  • Western Frisian: “Poughkeepsie”

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