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City of Presque Isle

Presque Isle

Presque Isle is the commercial center and largest city in , United States. The population was 8,797 at the 2020 Census. The city is home to the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Northern Maine Community College, Northern Maine Fairgrounds, the , and the .
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  • Type: City with 8,800 residents
  • Description: city in Maine, United States
  • Also known as: “Presque Isle, Maine” and “Presque Isle, ME”
  • Postal code: 04769

Places of Interest

Highlights include Presque Isle International Airport and Northern Maine Museum of Science.

Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
, formally Northern Maine Regional Airport at Presque Isle, is a mile northwest of Presque Isle, in , , United States.

Museum
The is a natural history museum in Presque Isle, Maine. Located on the campus of the University of Maine at Presque Isle, it was founded in the early 1970s when Leroy Norton, an naturalist donated a significant number of pieces, including sea shells and local forestry examples.

Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library, named after local philanthropists Mark and Emily Turner, is a public library in the City of Presque Isle, Maine, United States.

Presque Isle

Latitude
46.6812° or 46° 40′ 52″ north
Longitude
-68.0155° or 68° 0′ 56″ west
Population
8,800
Elevation
456 feet (139 metres)
IATA airport code
PQI
Open location code
87RHMXJM+FR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158814029
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4975966
Wiki­data ID
Q986013
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Presque Isle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بريسكيو إزلي”
  • Basque: “Presque Isle”
  • Catalan: “Presque Isle”
  • Cebuano: “Presque Isle”
  • Chechen: “Преск-Айл”
  • Chinese: “Presque Isle”
  • Chinese: “普雷斯克艾尔”
  • Chinese: “普雷斯克艾爾”
  • Czech: “Presque Isle”
  • Dagbani: “Presque Isle”
  • Danish: “Presque Isle”
  • Dutch: “Presque Isle”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريسكيو ازلى”
  • Estonian: “Presque Isle”
  • French: “Presque Isle”
  • German: “Presque Isle”
  • Gilaki: “پرسک آیل (مین)”
  • Gilaki: “پرسک آیل”
  • Hungarian: “Presque Isle”
  • Irish: “Presque Isle”
  • Italian: “Presque Isle”
  • Japanese: “プレスク・アイル”
  • Japanese: “プレスクアイル”
  • Kazakh: “Preskyu Aýsl”
  • Kazakh: “Прескю Айсл”
  • Kazakh: “پرەسكيۋ ايسل”
  • Kirghiz: “Прескю Айсл”
  • Korean: “프레스크아일”
  • Ladin: “Presque Isle”
  • Malagasy: “Presque Isle, Maine”
  • Malagasy: “Presque Isle”
  • Mazanderani: “پرسک آیل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Presque Isle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Presque Isle”
  • Norwegian: “Presque Isle”
  • Persian: “پرسک آیل، مین”
  • Persian: “پرسک آیل”
  • Polish: “Presque Isle”
  • Portuguese: “Presque Isle”
  • Russian: “Преск-Айл”
  • Serbian: “Преск Ајл”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Presque Isle, Maine”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Presque Isle”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرزکو ایسل، مئین”
  • Spanish: “Presque Isle (Maine)”
  • Spanish: “Presque Isle”
  • Swedish: “Presque Isle”
  • Tatar: “Преск-Айл”
  • Turkish: “Presque Isle, Maine”
  • Turkish: “Presque Isle”
  • Ukrainian: “Преск-Айл”
  • Urdu: “پریسک آئل، میئن”
  • Uzbek: “Presque Isle”
  • Volapük: “Presque Isle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Presque Isle, Maine”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Presque Isle”
  • Welsh: “Presque Isle, Maine”
  • Welsh: “Presque Isle”

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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 Wikipedia page “Presque Isle”. Photo: Dayzle, CC BY-SA 4.0.