Prince George
Prince George, locally known as PG, is a city in the North Coast-Nechako region and a major service centre in Northern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city north of Kamloops in BC, and known as BC's Northern Capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 72,000 residents
- Description: city in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Prince George, BC” and “Prince George, British Columbia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum and Prince George Railway Station.
Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum
Museum
Photo: Arsenikk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum is in Prince George, British Columbia. Its collection consists of over sixty pieces of rolling stock, ten historical buildings and numerous smaller artifacts on an 8-acre site.
Prince George Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Klockarnils, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prince George station is a railway station in Prince George, British Columbia. It is on the Canadian National Railway mainline. Via Rail's Jasper–Prince Rupert train service overnights at this station between Prince Rupert and Jasper.
Paddlewheel Park
Park
Paddlewheel Park is a small city park on the Fraser River in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. The park was built in honor of the upper Fraser River sternwheelers that landed there from 1909 until 1921.
Prince George
- Categories: city in British Columbia and locality
- Location: Prince George, Regional District of Fraser–Fort George, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.9129° or 53° 54′ 46″ northLongitude
-122.7454° or 122° 44′ 43″ westPopulation
72,000Elevation
578 metres (1,896 feet)IATA airport code
YXSUnited Nations Location Code
CA PRGOpen location code
945VW773+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 33308006OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6113365Wikidata ID
Q590205
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Prince George” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Prince George”
- Arabic: “برينس جورج، كولومبيا البريطانية”
- Arabic: “برينس جورج”
- Asturian: “Prince George”
- Bengali: “প্রিন্স জর্জ”
- Catalan: “Prince George”
- Cebuano: “Prince George”
- Central Kurdish: “پرێنس جۆرج، بریتش کۆلۆمبیا”
- Chinese: “乔治王子城”
- Chinese: “喬治王子城”
- Czech: “Prince George”
- Dagbani: “Prince George”
- Danish: “Prince George”
- Dimli (individual language): “Prince George, Kolombiyay Britanya”
- Dutch: “Prince George”
- Esperanto: “Prince George”
- Esperanto: “Princo Georgo”
- Finnish: “Prince George”
- French: “Prince George”
- German: “Prince George”
- Greek: “Πρινς Τζορτζ”
- Gujarati: “પ્રિન્સ જ્યોર્જ”
- Hebrew: “פרינס ג’ורג‘”
- Hebrew: “פרינס ג’ורג’”
- Hebrew: “פרינס גורג”
- Hindi: “प्रिंस जॉर्ज”
- Icelandic: “Prince George”
- Indonesian: “Prince George”
- Italian: “Prince George”
- Japanese: “プリンス・ジョージ (ブリティッシュコロンビア州)”
- Japanese: “プリンス・ジョージ”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ರಿನ್ಸ್ ಜಾರ್ಜ್”
- Korean: “프린스조지”
- Latvian: “Prinsdžordža”
- Lithuanian: “Princas Džordžas”
- Malay: “Prince George, British Columbia”
- Malay: “Prince George”
- Malayalam: “പ്രിൻസ് ജോർജ്”
- Marathi: “प्रिन्स जॉर्ज”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prince George”
- Norwegian: “Prince George”
- Persian: “پرنس جرج، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Persian: “پرنس جورج، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Polish: “Prince George”
- Portuguese: “Prince George”
- Russian: “Принс-Джордж”
- Serbian: “Abbotsford, British Columbia”
- Serbian: “Принс Џорџ”
- Sinhala: “ප්රින්ස් ජෝර්ජ්”
- Slovak: “Prince George”
- Spanish: “Prince George (Columbia Británica)”
- Spanish: “Prince George”
- Swedish: “Prince George”
- Tagalog: “Prince George, British Columbia”
- Tamil: “பிரின்ஸ் ஜியார்ஜ்”
- Telugu: “ప్రిన్స్ జార్జ్”
- Thai: “Prince George, British Columbia”
- Thai: “พรินซ์จอร์จ”
- Turkish: “Prince George, Britanya Kolumbiyası”
- Turkish: “Prince George, British Columbia”
- Turkish: “Prince george”
- Turkish: “Prince George”
- Ukrainian: “Принс Джордж”
- Ukrainian: “Принс-Джордж”
- Ukrainian: “Прінс-Джордж”
- Urdu: “پرنس جارج, برٹش کولمبیا”
- Urdu: “پرنس جارج، برٹش کولمبیا”
- Vietnamese: “Prince George”
- Volapük: “Prince George”
- Waray (Philippines): “Prince George, British Columbia”
- Welsh: “Prince George, British Columbia”
- Welsh: “Prince George”
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