Michigan
Grand Traverse
City of Traverse City

Traverse City

Traverse City is a scenic city on the Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. Directly north of Traverse City, the Old Mission Peninsula splits the Grand Traverse Bay in two, with a beautiful windswept landscape and great views of the bay on either side.
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  • Type: City with 15,700 residents
  • Description: city ​​in and seat of Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States
  • Also known as: “Traverse City, MI” and “Traverse City, Michigan”
  • Postal codes: 49684-49686 and 49696

Places of Interest

Highlights include State Theatre and City Opera House.

Movie theater
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The is a in Traverse City, Michigan. In its current iteration, it is operated by the Traverse City Film Festival, and presents a year-round schedule of film and live performances.

Theater building
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The is located at 106–112 Front Street in Traverse City, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Stadium
is a 7,000-seat football located in Traverse City, Michigan. It was built in 1934 on a site where football has been played since 1896 by the Traverse City Trojans.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Greilickville and Central Neighborhood Historic District.

Village
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is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in in the U.S. state of . At the 2020 census, the population was 1,634, up from 1,530 at the 2010 census.

Quarter
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The is a residential historic district, roughly bounded by 5th, Union, 9th, and Division Streets in Traverse City, Michigan.

Quarter
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The is a residential historic district in Traverse City, Michigan, United States, roughly bounded by State Street, Webster Street, Railroad Avenue, and Boardman Avenue.

Traverse City

Latitude
44.7606° or 44° 45′ 38″ north
Longitude
-85.6166° or 85° 36′ 60″ west
Population
15,700
Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)
IATA airport code
TVC
United Nations Location Code
US TVC
Open location code
86PPQ96M+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153808230
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5012495
Wiki­data ID
Q984544
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Traverse City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Traverse City, Michigan”
  • Afrikaans: “Traverse City”
  • Albanian: “Traverse City, Michigan”
  • Albanian: “Traverse City”
  • Arabic: “ترافيرس سيتي”
  • Basque: “Traverse City”
  • Bengali: “ট্রেভারস শহর”
  • Catalan: “Traverse City”
  • Cebuano: “Traverse City”
  • Chechen: “Траверс-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Traverse City”
  • Chinese: “特拉弗斯城”
  • Czech: “Traverse City”
  • Dagbani: “Traverse City”
  • Danish: “Traverse City”
  • Dutch: “Traverse City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ترافيرس سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Traverse City”
  • Estonian: “Traverse City”
  • Finnish: “Traverse City”
  • French: “Traverse City”
  • Galician: “Traverse City, Míchigan”
  • Galician: “Traverse City”
  • German: “Traverse City”
  • Gilaki: “ترورس سيتي (ميشيگان)”
  • Gilaki: “ترورس سيتي”
  • Greek: “Τράβερς Σίτι”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્રેવર્સ શહેર”
  • Hebrew: “טרברס סיטי”
  • Hindi: “ट्रैवर्स सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Traverse City”
  • Indonesian: “Traverse City”
  • Irish: “Traverse City”
  • Italian: “Traverse City”
  • Japanese: “トラヴァース・シティ”
  • Japanese: “トラバースシティ”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ರಾವರ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Travérs Sïtï”
  • Kazakh: “Травэрс Сити”
  • Kazakh: “تراۆەرس سىيتىي”
  • Korean: “트래버스 시티”
  • Korean: “트래버스시티”
  • Ladin: “Traverse City”
  • Latvian: “Traverssitija”
  • Lithuanian: “Travers Sitis”
  • Malagasy: “Traverse City, Michigan”
  • Malagasy: “Traverse City”
  • Malay: “Traverse City”
  • Marathi: “ट्रेवर्स शहर”
  • Mazanderani: “تراوس سیتی (میشیگان)”
  • Mazanderani: “تراوس سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Traverse City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Traverse City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Traverse City”
  • Norwegian: “Traverse City”
  • Persian: “تراوس سیتی، میشیگان”
  • Persian: “تراوس سیتی”
  • Polish: “Traverse City”
  • Portuguese: “Traverse City”
  • Romanian: “Traverse City”
  • Russian: “Траверс-Сити”
  • Serbian: “Траверс Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Traverse City, Michigan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Traverse City”
  • Sinhala: “ට්‍රැවර්ස් සිටි”
  • Slovak: “Traverse City”
  • Slovenian: “Traverse City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تراوس سیتی، میشیقان”
  • Spanish: “Traverse City (Míchigan)”
  • Spanish: “Traverse City”
  • Swedish: “Traverse City”
  • Tamil: “ட்ராவெர்ஸ் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Траверс-Сити”
  • Telugu: “ట్రావర్స్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “ทราเวิร์สซิตี”
  • Turkish: “Traverse City, Michigan”
  • Turkish: “Traverse City”
  • Ukrainian: “Траверс-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “تراویرسی شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Traverse City”
  • Uzbek: “Траверсе Cитй”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Traverse, Michigan”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Traverse”
  • Volapük: “Traverse City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Traverse City, Michigan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Traverse City”
  • Welsh: “Traverse City, Michigan”
  • Welsh: “Traverse City”
  • “ma tomo Wape”

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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 “Traverse City”. Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.