New Mexico
SE New Mexico
Chaves

Roswell

Roswell is a city in the region of the state of , United States of America. It has attained a quirky sort of fame/notoriety as the result of an alleged UFO crash in 1947.
Tap on a place
to explore it
roswell-nm.gov
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Phil Campbell, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
  • Type: City with 48,400 residents
  • Description: city in and the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Roswell, New Mexico” and “Roswell, NM”
  • Postal codes: 88201-88203

Places of Interest

Highlights include International UFO Museum and Research Center and Chaves County Courthouse.

Museum
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
The is located in Roswell, New Mexico, United States, in the downtown district, and is focused largely on the 1947 Roswell Crash and later supposed UFO incidents in the United States and elsewhere.

Courthouse
Photo: Paul Schultz, CC BY 2.0.
The , located on the 400 block of Main Street in Roswell, , is the center of government of . The courthouse was built in 1911 after Roswell's citizens learned that New Mexico would become a state the next year.

Museum
Photo: Myotus, CC BY 4.0.
The Roswell Museum was founded in 1936 and is located in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. The museum features exhibits about the art and history of the American Southwest, as well as the Robert H.

Roswell

Latitude
33.3943° or 33° 23′ 40″ north
Longitude
-104.523° or 104° 31′ 23″ west
Population
48,400
Elevation
3,576 feet (1,090 metres)
IATA airport code
ROW
United Nations Location Code
US ROW
Open location code
855Q9FVG+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151696224
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5488441
Wiki­data ID
Q33561
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Roswell from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Roswell” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “روزويل”
  • Basque: “Roswell”
  • Belarusian: “Розуэл”
  • Bengali: “রজওয়েল, নিউ মেক্সিকো”
  • Bengali: “রজওয়েল”
  • Bengali: “রোসওয়েল, নিউ মেক্সিকো”
  • Bengali: “রোসওয়েল, নিউ মেক্সিকোত”
  • Breton: “Roswell”
  • Bulgarian: “Розуел”
  • Catalan: “Roswell”
  • Cebuano: “Roswell”
  • Chechen: “Розвелл”
  • Chinese: “Roswell”
  • Chinese: “罗斯韦尔”
  • Chinese: “羅斯威爾”
  • Chinese: “羅斯維爾”
  • Chinese: “羅斯韋爾”
  • Cornish: “Roswell, Meksiko Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Roswell”
  • Croatian: “Roswell, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Roswell”
  • Czech: “Roswell”
  • Dagbani: “Roswell”
  • Danish: “Roswell”
  • Dutch: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Dutch: “Roswell”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روزويل, نيومكسيكو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روزويل”
  • Esperanto: “Roswell”
  • Estonian: “Roswell”
  • Finnish: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Finnish: “Roswell”
  • French: “Roswell”
  • German: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • German: “Roswell”
  • Gilaki: “رؤزول”
  • Greek: “Ρόζγουελ”
  • Greek: “Ρόσγουελ”
  • Gujarati: “રોસવેલ”
  • Hebrew: “רוזוול”
  • Hindi: “रोजवेल”
  • Hungarian: “Roswell”
  • Indonesian: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Indonesian: “Roswell”
  • Irish: “Roswell”
  • Italian: “Roswell, Nuovo Messico”
  • Italian: “Roswell”
  • Japanese: “ロズウェル (ニューメキシコ)”
  • Japanese: “ロズウェル”
  • Kannada: “ರೋಸ್ವೆಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Росвэлл”
  • Kirghiz: “Росвэлл”
  • Korean: “로스웰”
  • Korean: “로즈웰”
  • Ladin: “Roswell”
  • Latin: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Latin: “Roswell”
  • Latvian: “Rozvela”
  • Lithuanian: “Rosvelas”
  • Lithuanian: “Rozvelas”
  • Macedonian: “Розвел”
  • Malay: “Roswell”
  • Marathi: “रॉसवेल”
  • Mazanderani: “رازول”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Roswell”
  • Navajo: “Tó Áshįįhí”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Roswell”
  • Norwegian: “Roswell”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Roswell”
  • Persian: “رازول، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “رازول”
  • Persian: “راس ول”
  • Persian: “راسول، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “راسول”
  • Polish: “Roswell”
  • Portuguese: “Roswell”
  • Romanian: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Roswell”
  • Russian: “Розвелл”
  • Russian: “Розуэлл”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roswell”
  • Serbian: “Розвел (Нови Мексико)”
  • Serbian: “Розвел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Roswell”
  • Sicilian: “Roswell”
  • Silesian: “Roswell”
  • Sinhala: “රොස්වෙල්”
  • Slovak: “Roswell”
  • Slovenian: “Roswell, Nova Mehika”
  • Slovenian: “Roswell”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رازول، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Roswell (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “Roswell”
  • Swedish: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Swedish: “Roswell”
  • Tamil: “றோஸ்வெல்”
  • Tatar: “Розвелл (Нью-Мексико)”
  • Tatar: “Розвелл”
  • Telugu: “రోజ్ వెల్”
  • Thai: “รอสเวลล์”
  • Turkish: “Roswell County, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Roswell”
  • Ukrainian: “Розвелл”
  • Ukrainian: “Розуел”
  • Ukrainian: “Розуелл”
  • Urdu: “روزویل، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “روزویل”
  • Vietnamese: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Roswell”
  • Volapük: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Volapük: “Roswell”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Roswell”
  • Welsh: “Roswell, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Roswell”
  • Western Mari: “Розуэлл”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗斯维尔（新墨西哥州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗斯维尔”
  • “Roswell”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Roswell”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Country Club Mobile Home Manor and Fairbanks.

Southeast New Mexico: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, and Clovis.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Roswell”. Photo: AllenS, Public domain.