Vulcan
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- Type: Town with 1,920 residents
- Description: town in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Vulcan, AB” and “Vulcan, Alberta”
- Neighbors: High River
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vulcan Airport.
Vulcan Airport
Aerodrome
Vulcan Airport is located immediately west of Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. The airport served until 2015 as the base for the Southern Alberta Gliding Center, a part of the Air Cadet Gliding Program.
Vulcan
- Categories: town in Alberta and locality
- Location: Vulcan County, Southern Alberta, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.4016° or 50° 24′ 6″ northLongitude
-113.2632° or 113° 15′ 48″ westPopulation
1,920Elevation
1,043 metres (3,422 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA VCAOpen location code
9528CP2P+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 51970511OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Vulcan” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Vulcan”
- Atikamekw: “Vulcan”
- Cebuano: “Vulcan”
- Chinese: “瓦肯鎮”
- Chinese: “瓦肯镇”
- Dutch: “Vulcan”
- Finnish: “Vulcan”
- French: “Vulcan”
- German: “Vulcan”
- Italian: “Vulcan”
- Japanese: “ヴァルカン”
- Persian: “ولکان، آلبرتا”
- Persian: “ولکان”
- Portuguese: “Vulcan”
- Serbian: “Валкан”
- Spanish: “Vulcan”
- Swedish: “Vulcan, Alberta”
- Swedish: “Vulcan”
- Turkish: “Vulcan”
- Ukrainian: “Вулкан”
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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 “Vulcan”. Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan, CC BY 2.0.