Tacoma
Tacoma, a major port on the Puget Sound, is the third-largest city in Washington State, with about 220,000 residents. It has a dynamic art scene and a great ballet.Photo: Spicypepper999, CC0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 219,000 residents
- Description: county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Also known as: “Chebaulip”, “City of Tacoma”, “Commencement City”, “Puyallup”, “T’kope”, “T’kopt”, “Tacoma, WA”, and “Tacoma, Washington”
- Postal codes: 98401-98409, 98411-98413, 98415, 98416, 98418, 98421, 98422, 98424, 98431, 98433, 98443-98447, 98464-98466, 98471, 98481, and 98493
- Neighbors: Fife and Gig Harbor
Photo: Afreeman, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tacoma Dome and Tacoma Art Museum.
Tacoma Dome
Stadium
Photo: Broran28, Public domain.
The Tacoma Dome is an indoor multi-purpose arena in Tacoma, Washington, United States. It is located south of Downtown Tacoma, adjacent to Interstate 5 and Tacoma Dome Station.
Tacoma Art Museum
Museum
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tacoma Art Museum is an art museum in Tacoma, Washington, United States. It focuses primarily on the art and artists from the Pacific Northwest and broader western region of the U.S.
America’s Car Museum
Museum
Photo: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
LeMay - America's Car Museum is a museum in the city of Tacoma, Washington. The museum is adjacent to the Tacoma Dome and opened on June 2, 2012. Many of the cars on display were donated to the museum by the family of Harold LeMay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hilltop and North Slope.
Hilltop
Quarter
Photo: Jacobrosere, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hilltop Neighborhood is a historically diverse neighborhood in the Tacoma, Washington Central District. The National Register of Historic Places specifies the geographic area of Hilltop as located within the City of Tacoma and bounded on the east…
North Slope
Neighborhood
Photo: Murderbike, Public domain.
The North Slope is a neighborhood of the north end of Tacoma, Washington, located south of Yakima Hill.
McCarver Neighborhood
Neighborhood
The McCarver Neighborhood is located in Tacoma, Washington. It is an urban neighborhood located in the Downtown and the Hilltop area of Tacoma.
Tacoma
- Categories: city in the United States, big city, and locality
- Location: Pierce, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.2455° or 47° 14′ 44″ northLongitude
-122.4383° or 122° 26′ 18″ westPopulation
219,000Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)IATA airport code
TIWUnited Nations Location Code
US TIWOpen location code
84VV6HW6+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 256170687OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5812944Wikidata ID
Q199797
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tacoma” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Afrikaans: “Tacoma”
- Arabic: “تاكوما”
- Armenian: “Թաքոմա”
- Armenian: “Տակոմա”
- Asturian: “Tacoma”
- Bashkir: “Такома”
- Basque: “Tacoma”
- Belarusian: “Такома”
- Bengali: “টাকোমা, ওয়াশিংটন”
- Bengali: “টাকোমা”
- Breton: “Tacoma”
- Bulgarian: “Такома”
- Bulgarian: “Такоума”
- Catalan: “Tacoma”
- Cebuano: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Cebuano: “Tacoma”
- Central Kurdish: “تاکۆما”
- Chechen: “Такома”
- Chinese: “Tacoma”
- Chinese: “塔可瑪”
- Chinese: “塔科馬”
- Chinese: “塔科马”
- Chinese: “塔科马市”
- Chinese: “打金麻”
- Cornish: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Cornish: “Tacoma”
- Croatian: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Croatian: “Tacoma”
- Czech: “Tacoma”
- Dagbani: “Tacoma”
- Danish: “Tacoma”
- Dutch: “Tacoma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاكوما”
- Esperanto: “Tacoma”
- Esperanto: “Takomo”
- Faroese: “Tacoma”
- Finnish: “Tacoma”
- French: “Tacoma”
- Galician: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Galician: “Tacoma”
- Georgian: “ტაკომა”
- German: “Tacoma”
- Gilaki: “تاکؤما (واشينگتن)”
- Gilaki: “تاکؤما”
- Greek: “Τακόμα”
- Gujarati: “ટકોમા”
- Haitian: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Haitian: “Tacoma”
- Hebrew: “טאקומה”
- Hebrew: “טקומה”
- Hindi: “टैकोमा”
- Hungarian: “Tacoma”
- Icelandic: “Tacoma”
- Ido: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Ido: “Tacoma”
- Indonesian: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Indonesian: “Tacoma”
- Irish: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Irish: “Tacoma”
- Italian: “Tacoma”
- Japanese: “タコマ”
- Kalaallisut: “Tacoma”
- Kannada: “ಟಕೋಮ”
- Kannada: “ಟಕೋಮಾ”
- Kazakh: “Такома”
- Korean: “타코마”
- Korean: “터코마”
- Ladin: “Tacoma”
- Latin: “Tacoma”
- Latvian: “Takoma”
- Lithuanian: “Takoma”
- Lombard: “Tacoma”
- Luxembourgish: “Tacoma”
- Macedonian: “Такома”
- Malagasy: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Malagasy: “Tacoma”
- Malay: “Tacoma”
- Maltese: “Tacoma”
- Marathi: “टॅकोमा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tacoma”
- Navajo: “Dziłátah Tiní Yaayí”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tacoma i Washington”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tacoma”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tacoma”
- Norwegian: “Tacoma”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tacoma”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tǣcōma”
- Ossetian: “Такомæ”
- Persian: “تاکوما، واشینگتن”
- Persian: “تاکوما”
- Piemontese: “Tacoma”
- Polish: “Tacoma”
- Portuguese: “Tacoma”
- Romanian: “Tacoma”
- Russian: “Такома”
- Scots: “Tacoma”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tacoma”
- Serbian: “Tacoma”
- Serbian: “Takoma”
- Serbian: “Такома”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tacoma”
- Silesian: “Tacoma”
- Sinhala: “ටැකොමා”
- Slovak: “Tacoma”
- Slovenian: “Tacoma”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاکوما، واشینقتون”
- Spanish: “Tacoma (Washington)”
- Spanish: “Tacoma”
- Swahili: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Swahili: “Tacoma”
- Swedish: “Tacoma”
- Tagalog: “Tacoma”
- Talysh: “Takoma”
- Tamil: “டகோமோ”
- Tatar: “Такома”
- Telugu: “టకోమ”
- Thai: “ทาโคมา”
- Turkish: “Tacoma”
- Ukrainian: “Такома”
- Urdu: “ٹاکوما، واشنگٹن”
- Venetian: “Tacoma”
- Vietnamese: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Vietnamese: “Tacoma”
- Volapük: “Tacoma”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tacoma, Washington”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tacoma”
- Welsh: “Tacoma, Washington”
- Welsh: “Tacoma”
- Western Frisian: “Tacoma”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹاکوما”
- Wu Chinese: “塔科马(华盛顿州)”
- Wu Chinese: “塔科马”
- Yue Chinese: “Tacoma”
- Yue Chinese: “塔科馬”
- Yue Chinese: “打金麻”
- “ma tomo Takoma”
- “Tacòma”
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