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Unisphere

The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth at in , New York City, New York. The globe was designed by Gilmore D.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: sculpture
  • Description: Steel structure in Queens, New York

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Queens Museum and Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Museum
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The is an art museum and educational center at in , New York City, United States. Established in 1972, the museum includes the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the five boroughs of New York City built for the 1964 New York World's Fair. is situated 500 feet southwest of Unisphere.

Stadium
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is a tennis arena at in , New York City. Part of the , it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world. is situated 1,400 feet northwest of Unisphere.

Sports venue
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The is a stadium complex within in , , New York. It has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, played every year from late August to early September, since 1978 and is operated by the United States Tennis Association. is situated 1,200 feet north of Unisphere.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corona and LeFrak City.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the borough of in . It borders and to the east, Jackson Heights and to the west, and Rego Park to the south, and to the north.

Neighborhood
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is a 4,605-apartment development in the southernmost region of and the easternmost part of , a neighborhood in the borough of .

Neighborhood
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is a residential neighborhood in the northwest section of the borough of . It is bounded to the south by Jackson Heights and , to the north and east by , and to the west by and Ditmars Steinway.

Unisphere

Latitude
40.7464° or 40° 44′ 47″ north
Longitude
-73.84507° or 73° 50′ 42″ west
Inception
1964
Height
141 feet (43 metres)
Open location code
87G8P5W3+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 596273458
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­sculpture
Wiki­data ID
Q717956
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Unisphere” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يونيسفير”
  • Azerbaijani: “Unisfera”
  • Balinese: “Unisphere”
  • Cebuano: “Unisphere”
  • Chinese: “大地球仪”
  • Chinese: “大地球儀”
  • Chinese: “巨型地球仪”
  • Chinese: “巨型地球儀”
  • Chinese: “法拉盛大地球仪”
  • Danish: “Unisphere”
  • Dutch: “Unisphere”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نافورة يونيسفير”
  • Esperanto: “Unisfero”
  • Estonian: “Unisphere”
  • Finnish: “Unisphere”
  • French: “Unisphere”
  • German: “Unisphere”
  • Hebrew: “יוניספרה”
  • Indonesian: “Unisphere”
  • Italian: “Unisfera”
  • Japanese: “ユニスフィア”
  • Japanese: “ユニスフェア”
  • Korean: “유니스페어”
  • Korean: “유니스피어”
  • Persian: “یونیسفر”
  • Portuguese: “Unisphere”
  • Russian: “Унисфера”
  • Spanish: “Unisphere”
  • Tagalog: “Unisphere”
  • Tamil: “ஒற்றைக்கோளம்”
  • Turkish: “Unisphere”
  • Ukrainian: “Унісфера”

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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 Wikipedia page “Unisphere”. Photo: slgckgc, CC BY 2.0.