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Princeton

Princeton, home to the prestigious Princeton University, is a municipality with a population of approximately 32,000 in , central .
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  • Type: Town with 13,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Prince Town”, “Princes Town”, “Princeton borough”, “Princeton, N.J.”, “Princeton, New Jersey”, “Princeton, NJ”, and “Princetown”
  • Historically known as: “Stony Brook”
  • Postal codes: 08540-08544
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include McCarter Theatre and Powers Field at Princeton Stadium.

Theater building
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Center is a not-for-profit, professional company on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. It was incorporated as a nonprofit in 1963.

Stadium
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is a in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is primarily used for American football, and has been the home field of the Princeton Tigers since 1998.

Library
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The serves the town of Princeton, New Jersey. It is the most visited municipal public library in New Jersey with over 860,000 annual visitors who borrow 550,000 items, ask more than 83,000 reference questions, log onto library computers over 90,000 times, and attend more than 1,300 programs.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Windsor and Plainsboro.

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is a township of 28,000 people in . It is among the highest-income municipalities in New Jersey. It is largely made up of expensive houses in carefully groomed developments.

Town
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Township is a township situated in southern , in the U.S. state of . Centrally located in the , the township is an outer-ring suburb of in the , even though it is slightly geographically closer to than to . is situated 3½ miles east of Princeton.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within , , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the CDP's population was 2,475. is situated 3 miles southeast of Princeton.

Princeton

Latitude
40.3497° or 40° 20′ 59″ north
Longitude
-74.6597° or 74° 39′ 35″ west
Population
13,700
Elevation
203 feet (62 metres)
IATA airport code
PCT
United Nations Location Code
US PCT
Open location code
87G788XR+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158817652
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5102922
Wiki­data ID
Q138518
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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”
  • Belarusian: “Прынстан”
  • Bengali: “প্রিন্সটন, নিউ জার্সি”
  • Bengali: “প্রিন্সটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Принстън”
  • Catalan: “Princeton”
  • Cebuano: “Princeton”
  • Central Kurdish: “پرینستۆن، نیو جێرزی”
  • Chechen: “Принстон”
  • Chinese: “Princeton”
  • 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, New Jersey”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “Princeton”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “Princeton”

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