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Rapid City

Rapid City is the largest city in the region of . It is a convenient base for travel on to the , the Crazy Horse Memorial, the , and the .
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  • Type: City with 74,700 residents
  • Description: seat of Pennington County, South Dakota, United States
  • Also known as: “Hay Camp”, “Rapid”, “Rapid City, SD”, and “Rapid City, South Dakota”
  • Postal codes: 57701-57703 and 57709

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elks Theatre and Rapid City Historic Commercial District.

Movie theater
Photo: Sadads, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a movie theater.

Historic site
The , sometimes called the Rapid City Downtown Historic District, is a 21-acre, multi-block historic district in downtown Rapid City, , United States.

Hotel
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic hotel in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was opened in 1928 by its namesake, Alex Carlton Johnson. From 1956 to 1968, it was operated by Sheraton Hotels and Resorts and was known as the Sheraton-Johnson Hotel.

Rapid City

Latitude
44.0806° or 44° 4′ 50″ north
Longitude
-103.228° or 103° 13′ 41″ west
Population
74,700
Elevation
3,241 feet (988 metres)
IATA airport code
RAP
United Nations Location Code
US RAP
Open location code
85PR3QJC+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3443517797
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5768233
Wiki­data ID
Q213325
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Rapid City” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رابيد سيتي”
  • Aragonese: “Rapid City”
  • Armenian: “Ռեփիդ Սիթի”
  • Basque: “Rapid City”
  • Belarusian: “Рапід-Сіці”
  • Bengali: “র‍্যাপিড শহর”
  • Bengali: “র‍্যাপিড সিটি”
  • Breton: “Rapid City”
  • Bulgarian: “Рапид Сити”
  • Catalan: “Rapid City”
  • Cebuano: “Rapid City”
  • Chechen: “Рапид-Сити”
  • Cheyenne: “Háeohémahpe”
  • Cheyenne: “Mo’ôhtávo’honáemâhoéve’ho’éno”
  • Cheyenne: “Rapid City”
  • Chinese: “Rapid City”
  • Chinese: “急流市”
  • Chinese: “拉皮德城”
  • Chinese: “激流市”
  • Cornish: “Rapid City, Dakota Dheghow”
  • Cornish: “Rapid City”
  • Czech: “Rapid City”
  • Dagbani: “Rapid City”
  • Danish: “Rapid City”
  • Dutch: “Rapid City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رابيد سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Rapida Urbo”
  • Estonian: “Rapid City”
  • Faroese: “Rapid City”
  • Finnish: “Rapid City”
  • French: “Rapid City”
  • German: “Rapid City”
  • Gilaki: “رپيد سيتي (نسايي داکؤتا)”
  • Gilaki: “رپيد سيتي”
  • Greek: “Ράπιντ Σίτι”
  • Gujarati: “રેપિડ શહેર”
  • Haitian: “Rapid City, Dakota disid”
  • Haitian: “Rapid City”
  • Hebrew: “ראפיד סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “רפיד סיטי”
  • Hindi: “रैपिड सिटी, दक्षिण डकोटा”
  • Hindi: “रैपिड सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Rapid City”
  • Indonesian: “Rapid City, South Dakota”
  • Indonesian: “Rapid City”
  • Interlingua: “Rapid City”
  • Irish: “Rapid City”
  • Italian: “Rapid City”
  • Japanese: “ラピッド・シティ”
  • Japanese: “ラピッドシティ”
  • Japanese: “ラピッドシティー”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಪಿಡ್ ನಗರ”
  • Korean: “래피드시티”
  • Ladin: “Rapid City”
  • Latvian: “Rapida”
  • Latvian: “Repidsitija”
  • Lithuanian: “Rapid Sitis”
  • Lithuanian: “Rapidas”
  • Macedonian: “Рапид Сити”
  • Malay: “Rapid City”
  • Marathi: “रॅपिड शहर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rapid City”
  • Navajo: “Tsxį́į́łnílíní”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rapid City”
  • Norwegian: “Rapid City”
  • Persian: “رپید سیتی، داکوتای جنوبی”
  • Persian: “رپید سیتی”
  • Polish: “Rapid City”
  • Portuguese: “Rapid City”
  • Romanian: “Rapid City”
  • Russian: “Рапид-Сити”
  • Serbian: “Rapid Siti”
  • Serbian: “Рапид Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rapid City, South Dakota”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rapid City”
  • Sicilian: “Rapid City”
  • Sinhala: “රැපිඩ් නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Rapid City”
  • Slovenian: “Rapid City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رپید سیتی، گونئی داکوتا”
  • Spanish: “Rapid City (Dakota del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Rapid City”
  • Swedish: “Rapid City, South Dakota”
  • Swedish: “Rapid City”
  • Tamil: “ராபிட் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Рапид-Сити”
  • Telugu: “రాపిడ్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “แรพิดซิตี”
  • Turkish: “Rapid City, Güney Dakota”
  • Turkish: “Rapid City”
  • Ukrainian: “Рапід-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “ریپڈ سٹی، جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
  • Urdu: “ریپڈ سٹی”
  • Urdu: “ریپڈ شہر، جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Rapid City”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Rapid”
  • Volapük: “Rapid City, South Dakota”
  • Volapük: “Rapid City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rapid City, South Dakota”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rapid City”
  • Welsh: “Rapid City, De Dakota”
  • Welsh: “Rapid City”

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