Valdez
Valdez is found in Southcentral Alaska on Prince William Sound. It is pronounced locally as "val-DEEZ", not like the Spanish surname.
- Type: Town with 4,000 residents
- Description: city in Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Copper City”, “Old Valdez”, “Suacit”, “Valdez (Alaska)”, “Valdez oil terminal”, “Valdez, AK”, “Valdez, Alaska”, “Валдез”, “والدز، الاسکا”, “भाल्देज (अलास्का)”, “ヴァルディーズ (アラスカ州)”, and “バルディーズ (アラスカ州)”
- Postal code: 99686
Valdez
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Chugach, Southcentral Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
61.1299° or 61° 7′ 48″ north
Longitude
-146.3494° or 146° 20′ 58″ west
Population
4,000
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
IATA airport code
VDZ
UN/LOCODE
US VDZ
Open location code
93HM4MH2+X7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Valdez” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فالديز”
- Azerbaijani: “Valdes”
- Azerbaijani: “Valdiz”
- Basque: “Valdez”
- Catalan: “Valdez”
- Cebuano: “Valdez”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤاڵدێز، ئالاسکا”
- Chechen: “Валдиз”
- Chinese: “瓦尔迪兹”
- Czech: “Valdez”
- Dagbani: “Valdez”
- Danish: “Valdez”
- Dutch: “Valdez”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فالديز”
- Esperanto: “Valdez”
- Faroese: “Valdez”
- Finnish: “Valdez”
- French: “Valdez”
- German: “Valdez”
- Gilaki: “والدز”
- Haitian: “Valdez”
- Hebrew: “ואלדז”
- Hungarian: “Valdez”
- Icelandic: “Valdez”
- Irish: “Valdez, Alasca”
- Irish: “Valdez”
- Italian: “Valdez”
- Japanese: “ヴァルディーズ”
- Japanese: “バルディーズ”
- Kalaallisut: “Valdez”
- Korean: “밸디즈”
- Ladin: “Valdez”
- Lithuanian: “Valdizas”
- Macedonian: “Валдиз”
- Malagasy: “Valdez, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Valdez”
- Malayalam: “വാൽഡെസ്, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “വാൽഡെസ്”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Valdez”
- Newari: “भाल्देज, अलास्का”
- Newari: “भाल्देज”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Valdez”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valdez”
- Norwegian: “Valdez”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Valdez”
- Persian: “والدز، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “والدز”
- Polish: “Valdez”
- Portuguese: “Valdez”
- Russian: “Валдиз”
- Serbian: “Валдиз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valdez, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valdez”
- Sicilian: “Valdez”
- Slovak: “Valdez”
- Slovenian: “Valdez”
- South Azerbaijani: “والدز، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “والدز”
- Spanish: “Valdez”
- Swedish: “Valdez, Alaska”
- Swedish: “Valdez”
- Talysh: “Valdiz”
- Tatar: “Валдиз”
- Turkish: “Valdez, Alaska”
- Turkish: “Valdez”
- Ukrainian: “Валдіз”
- Urdu: “والدیز، الاسکا”
- Urdu: “والدیز”
- Uzbek: “Valdez”
- Volapük: “Valdez”
- Waray (Philippines): “Valdez, Alaska”
- Waray (Philippines): “Valdez”
- Western Mari: “Валдиз”
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