Schenectady
Schenectady, once called the city that lights and hauls the world, is in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Approximately 20 minutes from New York's capital of Albany, Schenectady is best known as the birthplace of General Electric and for Proctor's Theater.
- Type: City with 61,600 residents
- Description: county seat of Schenectady County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Schenectady (Nova York)”, “Schenectady (Nueva York)”, “Schenectady, New York”, “Schenectady, Nova Iorque”, “Schenectady, NY”, “Skanéhtati”, “Skenektedi”, “Σενέκταντι”, “Скенектеди”, “Скенектэди”, “Скънъктади”, “سهينيكتادي”, and “سینکتدی”
- Postal codes: 12301-12309, 12325, and 12345
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dudley Observatory and Schenectady station.
Dudley Observatory
Observatory
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Schenectady station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scotia and Mont Pleasant.
Scotia
Village
Scotia is a village in Schenectady County, New York, United States, incorporated in 1904.
Downtown Schenectady
Neighborhood
Schenectady
- Categories: city in the state of New York, county seat, and locality
- Location: City of Schenectady, Schenectady, Capital District, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.8142° or 42° 48′ 51″ north
Longitude
-73.9396° or 73° 56′ 22″ west
Population
61,600
Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)
IATA airport code
SCH
UN/LOCODE
US SCH
Open location code
87J8R376+M5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Schenectady” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سكنيكتادي”
- Armenian: “Սկենեկտադի”
- Asturian: “Schenectady”
- Azerbaijani: “Skenektadi”
- Basque: “Schenectady”
- Belarusian: “Скенектадзі”
- Bengali: “স্কেনেকটেডি”
- Breton: “Schenectady”
- Bulgarian: “Скънектади”
- Catalan: “Schenectady”
- Cebuano: “Schenectady”
- Chechen: “Скенектади”
- Chinese: “斯克內克塔迪”
- Chinese: “斯克内克塔迪”
- Cornish: “Schenectady, Evrek Nowydh”
- Croatian: “Schenectady”
- Czech: “Schenectady”
- Dagbani: “Schenectady”
- Danish: “Schenectady”
- Dutch: “Schenectady”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سكينيكتادى ، نيو يورك”
- Esperanto: “Schenectady”
- Finnish: “Schenectady”
- French: “Schenectady”
- Galician: “Schenectady”
- Georgian: “სკენექტადი”
- German: “Schenectady”
- Gilaki: “اسکنکتدي (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “اسکنکتدي”
- Greek: “Σκενέκταντυ”
- Gujarati: “શેનેક્ટેડી”
- Haitian: “Schenectady, New York”
- Haitian: “Schenectady”
- Hebrew: “סקנקטדי”
- Hindi: “स्केंकेटेडी”
- Hungarian: “Schenectady”
- Indonesian: “Schenectady”
- Irish: “Schenectady”
- Italian: “Schenectady”
- Japanese: “スケネクタディ”
- Kannada: “ಷೆನೆಕ್ಟಾಡಿ”
- Korean: “스커넥터디”
- Korean: “스키넥터디”
- Ladin: “Schenectady”
- Latvian: “Skenektadi”
- Lithuanian: “Skenektadis”
- Luxembourgish: “Schenectady”
- Macedonian: “Скенектади”
- Malay: “Schenectady”
- Malayalam: “ഷെനെക്ടഡി”
- Marathi: “शेंकटैडी”
- Mazanderani: “اسکنکتدی (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “اسکنکتدی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schenectady”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schenectady”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schenectady”
- Norwegian: “Schenectady”
- Persian: “اسکنکتدی”
- Persian: “سکنکتدی، نیویورک”
- Persian: “سکنکتدی”
- Piemontese: “Schenectady”
- Polish: “Schenectady”
- Portuguese: “Schenectady”
- Romanian: “Schenectady”
- Russian: “Скенектади”
- Scots: “Schenectady”
- Serbian: “Скенектади”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Schenectady, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Schenectady”
- Silesian: “Schenectady”
- Sinhala: “ස්කනෙක්ටඩි”
- Slovak: “Schenectady”
- Slovenian: “Schenectady”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسکنکتدی، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Schenectady”
- Swahili: “Schenectady, New York”
- Swahili: “Schenectady”
- Swedish: “Schenectady”
- Tagalog: “Schenectady, New York”
- Tagalog: “Schenectady”
- Tajik: “Шинетади,Ню-Йорк”
- Tajik: “Шинетади”
- Tamil: “ஸ்நெக்டாடி”
- Tatar: “Скенектади”
- Telugu: “షినెక్టడీ”
- Thai: “สเกอเนคเทอดี”
- Turkish: “Schenectady”
- Ukrainian: “Скенектаді”
- Urdu: “سکینیکٹیڈی، نیو یارک”
- Vietnamese: “Schenectady, New York”
- Vietnamese: “Schenectady”
- Volapük: “Schenectady”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schenectady, New York”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schenectady”
- Welsh: “Schenectady, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Schenectady”
- Western Panjabi: “سکینکٹڈی ، نیویارک”
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