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Raritan

Raritan is a borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 7,835, its highest decennial census count ever and an increase of 954 from the 2010 census count of 6,881, which in turn had reflected an increase of 543 from the 6,338 counted at the 2000 census.
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  • Type: Village with 6,430 residents
  • Description: borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Raritan, New Jersey”, “Raritan, NJ”, and “Rariton”
  • Postal code: 08869
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Raritan station and Somerville station.

Railway station
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Raritan is an NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Raritan, , , United States, north of the town center on Thompson Street.

Railway station
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Somerville is a NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, located south of the downtown center of , in , , United States.

Fire station
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The is a historic two-story brick firehouse located at 15 North Doughty Avenue in the borough of in , , United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Somerville and Bridgewater.

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is a borough in and the county seat of , in the U.S. state of . The borough is located in the heart of the within the New York Metropolitan Area, located about 33 miles from and 20 miles from .

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is a township in with a population of 44,000. It has a long history, having been created in 1749 and incorporated in 1798, and according to tradition was where the first official U.S. flag was unfurled.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within , in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 14,206.

Raritan

Latitude
40.5672° or 40° 34′ 2″ north
Longitude
-74.6347° or 74° 38′ 5″ west
Population
6,430
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US RAT
Open location code
87G7H988+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 105420665
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5103116
Wiki­data ID
Q1083371
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Raritan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “راريتان”
  • Asturian: “Raritan”
  • Basque: “Raritan”
  • Catalan: “Raritan”
  • Cebuano: “Raritan”
  • Chechen: “Раритан”
  • Chinese: “Raritan”
  • Chinese: “拉瑞騰 (紐澤西州)”
  • Chinese: “拉里坦”
  • Dutch: “Raritan”
  • Esperanto: “Raritan”
  • French: “Raritan”
  • German: “Raritan”
  • Haitian: “Raritan, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Raritan”
  • Hebrew: “ראריטאן”
  • Hungarian: “Raritan”
  • Italian: “Raritan”
  • Kazakh: “Rarïtan”
  • Kazakh: “Раритан”
  • Kazakh: “رارىيتان”
  • Kirghiz: “Раритан”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Raritan”
  • Persian: “رریتن، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “رریتن”
  • Portuguese: “Raritan”
  • Serbian: “Раритан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Raritan, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Raritan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رریتن، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Raritan (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Raritan”
  • Swedish: “Raritan”
  • Tatar: “Раритан”
  • Ukrainian: “Рарітан”
  • Uzbek: “Raritan, New Jersey”
  • Uzbek: “Raritan”
  • Uzbek: “Раритан”
  • Volapük: “Raritan, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Raritan”
  • Welsh: “Raritan, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Raritan”

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