Princeton

Princeton, home to the prestigious Princeton University, is a municipality with a population of approximately 32,000 in , central .
  • City with about 30,700 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 200 feet (60 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code PCT
  • …was formerly known as “Stony Brook”
  • Description: municipality in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
  • Postal codes: 08540-08544
  • Also known as
    “Prince Town”
    “Princes Town”
    “Princeton borough”
    “Princeton, N.J.”
    “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include McCarter Theatre and Powers Field at Princeton Stadium.
Princeton is the northern terminus of the Princeton…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Windsor and Plainsboro.
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Latitude
40.3497° or 40° 20′ 59″ north
Longitude
-74.6597° or 74° 39′ 35″ west
UN/LOCODE
US PCT
Open location code
87G788XR+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Princeton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Afrikaans: “Princeton”
  • Arabic: “برينستون”
  • Armenian: “Փրինսթոն”
  • Asturian: “Princeton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Prinstom”
  • Azerbaijani: “Prinston”
  • Basque: “Princeton borough”
  • Basque: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Basque: “Princeton, NJ”
  • Basque: “Princeton”
  • Belarusian: “Прынстан”
  • Bengali: “প্রিন্সটন, নিউ জার্সি”
  • Bengali: “প্রিন্সটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Принстън”
  • Catalan: “Princeton”
  • Cebuano: “Princeton”
  • Central Kurdish: “پرینستۆن، نیو جێرزی”
  • Chechen: “Принстон”
  • Chinese: “普林斯頓”
  • Chinese: “普林斯顿”
  • Croatian: “Princeton”
  • Czech: “Princeton”
  • Dagbani: “Princeton”
  • Danish: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Danish: “Princeton”
  • Dutch: “Princeton”
  • Esperanto: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Esperanto: “Princeton, NJ”
  • Esperanto: “Princeton”
  • Estonian: “Princeton”
  • Finnish: “Princeton”
  • French: “Princeton”
  • Galician: “Princeton, Nova Jersey”
  • Galician: “Princeton”
  • Georgian: “პრინსტონი”
  • German: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • German: “Princeton, NJ”
  • German: “Princeton”
  • Gilaki: “پرینستن (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “پرینستن”
  • Greek: “Πρίνστον”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રિંસ્ટન, એનજે”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રિંસ્ટન”
  • Haitian: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Princeton”
  • Hebrew: “פרינסטון”
  • Hungarian: “Princeton”
  • Icelandic: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Icelandic: “Princeton”
  • Ido: “Princeton, Nova-Jersey”
  • Ido: “Princeton”
  • Indonesian: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Indonesian: “Princeton”
  • Irish: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Irish: “Princeton”
  • Italian: “Princeton”
  • Japanese: “プリンストン”
  • Jèrriais: “Princeton”
  • Kazakh: “Принстон”
  • Kirghiz: “Принстон”
  • Korean: “프린스턴”
  • Ladin: “Princeton”
  • Latin: “Princetonia”
  • Latin: “Principitonia”
  • Latvian: “Princeton”
  • Latvian: “Prinstona”
  • Lombard: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Lombard: “Princeton”
  • Luxembourgish: “Princeton”
  • Maltese: “Princeton”
  • Marathi: “प्रिन्स्टन”
  • Mazanderani: “پرینستون (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “پرینستون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Princeton”
  • Mongolian: “Принстон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پرينستون”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Princeton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Princeton”
  • Norwegian: “Princeton”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Princeton”
  • Ossetian: “Принстон”
  • Panjabi: “ਪ੍ਰਿੰਸਟਨ”
  • Persian: “پرینستون، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “پرینستون”
  • Piemontese: “Princeton”
  • Polish: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Polish: “Princeton”
  • Portuguese: “Princeton”
  • Romanian: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Romanian: “Princeton”
  • Russian: “Принстон”
  • Sanskrit: “प्रिन्‍सटन”
  • Scots: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Scots: “Princeton”
  • Serbian: “Принстон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Princeton”
  • Sicilian: “Princeton”
  • Silesian: “Princeton”
  • Slovak: “Princeton”
  • Slovenian: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Slovenian: “Princeton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرینستون، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Princeton (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Princeton”
  • Swedish: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Swedish: “Princeton”
  • Tagalog: “Princeton”
  • Tajik: “Принстон”
  • Tamil: “பிரின்ஸ்டன், நியூ ஜெர்சி”
  • Tamil: “பிரின்ஸ்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Принстон”
  • Thai: “พรินซ์ตัน”
  • Turkish: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Turkish: “Princeton”
  • Ukrainian: “Принстон”
  • Ukrainian: “Прінстон”
  • Urdu: “پرنسٹن، نیو جرسی”
  • Urdu: “پرنسٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Prinston”
  • Vietnamese: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Vietnamese: “Princeton”
  • Volapük: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Princeton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Princeton”
  • Welsh: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Princeton”
  • Wu Chinese: “普林斯顿(新泽西州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “普林斯顿”
  • Yiddish: “פרינסטאן”
  • Yoruba: “Princeton, New Jersey”
  • Yoruba: “Princeton”
  • Yue Chinese: “篇士敦”

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