Vancouver

Vancouver is a city in , immediately north of the border with . The city was established around Fort Vancouver, a fur trading outpost dating back to 1824, making this one of the oldest continuously-inhabited European communities in the Pacific Northwest.
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  • Type: City with 191,000 residents
  • Description: seat of Clark County, Washington, United States
  • Also known as: “Alashikash”, “Camp Vancouver”, “Columbia Barracks”, “Fort Vancouver”, “Template:Vandalism”, “Vancouver Barracks”, “Vancouver City”, “Vancouver, WA”, and “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Postal codes: 98660-98666, 98668, and 98682-98687

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vancouver Community Library and Pearson Airpark.

Library
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The is a library in Vancouver, Washington, in the United States. Part of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District, the 83,000-square-foot library is the second largest in the , second to the in .

Aerodrome
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Pearson Field also once known as , is a city-owned municipal located one mile southeast of the central business district of Vancouver, a city in , United States.

Movie theater
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The is an historic, single-screen in Vancouver, Washington. Named for former Vancouver mayor and businessman John P. Kiggins, it opened in 1936. It is located at 1011 Main Street in downtown Vancouver.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hayden Island and Faloma.

Suburb
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is an island in the between Vancouver, Washington, and . The wide main channel of the Columbia passes north of the island.

Suburb
Bridgeton is a compact neighborhood of detached houses, rowhouses, apartment and condominium complexes, and houseboats in the north and northeast sections of .

Locality
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, a part of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Historic District, is a congregation of 21 of the former homes of U.S. military officers stationed at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington.

Vancouver

Latitude
45.6307° or 45° 37′ 51″ north
Longitude
-122.6745° or 122° 40′ 28″ west
Population
191,000
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US VAN
Open location code
84QVJ8JG+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 48723103
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
5814616
Wiki­data ID
Q234053
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vancouver” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vancouver”
  • Amharic: “ቫንኩቨር”
  • Arabic: “فانكوفر (واشنطن)”
  • Arabic: “فانكوفر”
  • Armenian: “Վանկուվեր (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Վանկուվեր”
  • Asturian: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Asturian: “Vancouver”
  • Bashkir: “Ванкувер”
  • Basque: “Vancouver (Washington)”
  • Basque: “Vancouver”
  • Bavarian: “Vancouver”
  • Belarusian: “Ванкувер”
  • Bengali: “ভ্যাঙ্কুভার”
  • Breton: “Vancouver”
  • Bulgarian: “Ванкувър”
  • Catalan: “Vancouver”
  • Cebuano: “Vancouver”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤانکوڤەر”
  • Chechen: “Ванкувер”
  • Chinese: “温哥华”
  • Chinese: “溫哥華”
  • Cornish: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Cornish: “Vancouver”
  • Croatian: “Vancouver”
  • Czech: “Vancouver”
  • Dagbani: “Vancouver”
  • Danish: “Vancouver”
  • Dutch: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Dutch: “Vancouver”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فانكوفر”
  • Esperanto: “Vancouver”
  • Finnish: “Vancouver”
  • French: “Vancouver”
  • Galician: “Vancouver”
  • German: “Vancouver (Washington)”
  • German: “Vancouver”
  • Gilaki: “ونکۊور (واشينگتن)”
  • Gilaki: “ونکۊور”
  • Greek: “Βανκούβερ”
  • Gujarati: “વાનકુવર”
  • Haitian: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Haitian: “Vancouver”
  • Hebrew: “ונקובר”
  • Hindi: “वैंकूवर”
  • Hungarian: “Vancouver”
  • Icelandic: “Vancouver”
  • Ido: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Ido: “Vancouver”
  • Indonesian: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Indonesian: “Vancouver”
  • Irish: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Irish: “Vancouver”
  • Italian: “Vancouver”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Vangkuuva”
  • Japanese: “ヴァンクーヴァー”
  • Japanese: “バンクーバー”
  • Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಂಕೋವರ್”
  • Korean: “밴쿠버”
  • Ladin: “Vancouver”
  • Latin: “Vancuverium”
  • Latvian: “Vankūvera”
  • Lithuanian: “Vankuveris”
  • Low German: “Vancouver”
  • Malagasy: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Malagasy: “Vancouver”
  • Malay: “Vancouver”
  • Marathi: “व्हँकुव्हर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vancouver”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vancouver i Washington”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vancouver”
  • Norwegian: “Vancouver”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vancouver”
  • Ossetian: “Ванкувер”
  • Persian: “ونکوور، واشینگتن”
  • Persian: “ونکوور”
  • Piemontese: “Vancouver”
  • Polish: “Vancouver”
  • Portuguese: “Vancouver”
  • Romanian: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Romanian: “Vancouver”
  • Russian: “Vancouver”
  • Russian: “Ванкувер (Вашингтон)”
  • Russian: “Ванкувер (США)”
  • Russian: “Ванкувер”
  • Scots: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Scots: “Vancouver”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vancouver”
  • Serbian: “Ванкувер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vancouver”
  • Sinhala: “වැන්කුවර්”
  • Slovak: “Vancouver”
  • Slovenian: “Vancouver”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ونکوور، واشینقتون”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ونکوور”
  • Spanish: “Vancouver (Washington)”
  • Spanish: “Vancouver”
  • Swahili: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Swahili: “Vancouver”
  • Swedish: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Swedish: “Vancouver”
  • Tagalog: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Tagalog: “Vancouver”
  • Talysh: “Vankuver (Vašington)”
  • Talysh: “Vankuver”
  • Tamil: “வேன்கோவர்”
  • Tatar: “Ванкувер”
  • Telugu: “వాంకోవర్”
  • Thai: “แวนคูเวอร์”
  • Turkish: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Turkish: “Vancouver”
  • Ukrainian: “Ванкувер”
  • Urdu: “وینکوور، واشنگٹن”
  • Venetian: “Vancouver”
  • Vietnamese: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Vietnamese: “Vancouver”
  • Volapük: “Vancouver”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vancouver”
  • Welsh: “Vancouver, Washington”
  • Welsh: “Vancouver”
  • Western Frisian: “Vancouver”
  • Wu Chinese: “温哥华（华盛顿州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “温哥华”
  • Yue Chinese: “溫哥華 (華盛頓州)”
  • “Vancouver”

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