New Mexico
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Sierra

Truth or Consequences

Truth or Consequences, locally called T or C and formerly known as Hot Springs, is a town in in the . It gets its curious name from a 1950s-vintage television show that offered to film an episode in some little town far from Hollywood, if that town would change its name to match the show's.
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  • Type: Town with 6,920 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Sierra County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Hot Springs”, “Hot Springs, New Mexico”, “Palomas Springs”, “T or C”, “T-or-C”, “Truth or Consequences, New Mexico”, “Truth or Consequences, NM”, “Truth-or-Consequences”, and “Truth-or-Consequences, New Mexico”
  • Postal code: 87901

Places of Interest

Highlights include Geronimo Springs Museum.

Museum
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The is a small regional museum located in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. It is named after Geronimo Hot Springs, one of numerous hot springs in the Hot Springs Artesian Basin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Williamsburg.

Village
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is a village in , , United States. The population was 462 at the 2020 census. The village, though small, is located adjacent to Truth or Consequences, and has essentially become a suburb. is situated 2½ miles west of Truth or Consequences.

Truth or Consequences

Latitude
33.1283° or 33° 7′ 42″ north
Longitude
-107.2529° or 107° 15′ 11″ west
Population
6,920
Elevation
4,245 feet (1,294 metres)
IATA airport code
TCS
United Nations Location Code
US TCS
Open location code
855J4PHW+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151887868
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5495292
Wiki­data ID
Q431932
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Truth or Consequences” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تروث أور كونسكيونسيس”
  • Basque: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Catalan: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Cebuano: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Chechen: “Трут-ор-Консекуенсес”
  • Chinese: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Chinese: “特魯斯-康西昆西斯”
  • Chinese: “特魯斯或康西昆西斯”
  • Chinese: “特鲁斯-康西昆西斯”
  • Chinese: “特鲁斯或康西昆西斯”
  • Chinese: “真理或挑戰”
  • Chinese: “真相或後果”
  • Cornish: “Gwir po Sewyansow, Meksiko Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Gwir po Sewyansow”
  • Croatian: “Truth or Consequences, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Czech: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Dagbani: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Danish: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Dutch: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تروث اور كونسكيونسيس”
  • Esperanto: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Esperanto: “Vero aŭ Konsekvencoj”
  • Finnish: “Truth or Consequences”
  • French: “Truth or Consequences”
  • German: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Gilaki: “ترۊث اؤر کانسيکۊئنسز”
  • Hebrew: “טרות‘ אור קונסקוונסז”
  • Hungarian: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Irish: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Italian: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Japanese: “トゥルース・オア・コンシクエンシーズ”
  • Kazakh: “Трюс о Консегюенсэс”
  • Kirghiz: “Трюс о Консегюенсэс”
  • Korean: “트루스오어컨시퀀시스”
  • Ladin: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Latvian: “Trutorkonsekvensisa”
  • Literary Chinese: “特魯斯或康西昆西斯”
  • Mazanderani: “تروت اور کانسکونس (نیومکزیکو)”
  • Mazanderani: “تروت اور کانسکونس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Navajo: “Tó Sido”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Norwegian: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Persian: “تروت اور کانسکونس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “تروت اور کانسکونس”
  • Polish: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Portuguese: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Romanian: “Truth or Consequences, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Russian: “Трут-ор-Консекуэнсес”
  • Serbian: “Трут ор Консеквенсиз (Нови Мексико)”
  • Serbian: “Трут ор Консеквенсиз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Truth and Consequences, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Truth and Consequences”
  • Slovak: “Truth or Consequences”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تروت اور کانسکونس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Truth or Consequences (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Swedish: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Tatar: “Трут-ор-Консекуенсес”
  • Ukrainian: “Трут-ор-Консекуенсес”
  • Veps: “Trut or Konsekuenses”
  • Veps: “Trut-or-Korsekuenses”
  • Volapük: “Truth or Consequences”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Truth or Consequences, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Truth or Consequences”
  • Welsh: “Truth or Consequences, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Truth or Consequences”

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