Altoona
Altoona is a city in central Pennsylvania. Altoona was founded as a railroad town by the Pennsylvania Railroad as the site of their Altoona Works shops, and its history as a railroad town still shows in the town today despite the decline of the railroad and its eventual absorption into Penn Central, Conrail, and now Norfolk Southern.Photo: Csoldner187, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Bossi, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 47,000 residents
- Description: city in Pennsylvania, United States
- Postal codes: 16601-16603
Notable Places in the Area
Altoona Transportation Center
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The Altoona Transportation Center is an intermodal passenger facility in downtown Altoona, Pennsylvania.
UPMC Altoona
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UPMC Altoona, located in downtown Altoona, Pennsylvania, is a 380-bed, non-profit, private…
Altoona Area High School
Altoona Area High School is the public high school for the Altoona Area School District in Altoona, Pennsylvania.Localities in the Area
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Latitude
40.5187° or 40° 31' 7" northLongitude
-78.3947° or 78° 23' 41" westPopulation
47,000Elevation
1,165 feet (355 metres)Open Location Code
87G3GJ94+F4OpenStreetMap ID
node 158293384OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5178195Wikidata ID
Q444210Altoona Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Arabic: ألتونا
- Basque: Altoona (Pennsylvania)
- Basque: Altoona
- Bengali: আল্টুনা
- Catalan: Altoona
- Cebuano: Altoona
- Chechen: Алтуна (Пенсильвани)
- Chechen: Алтуна
- Chinese: 阿尔图纳 (宾夕法尼亚州)
- Chinese: 阿尔图纳
- Czech: Altoona
- Dagbani: Altoona
- Danish: Altoona
- Dutch: Altoona
- English: Altoona, PA
- English: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Esperanto: Altoona (Pensilvanio)
- Esperanto: Altoona
- Estonian: Altoona (Pennsylvania)
- Estonian: Altoona
- Finnish: Altoona
- French: Altoona
- Galician: Altoona
- German: Altoona
- Greek: Αλτούνα
- Gujarati: અલ્ટોના
- Haitian: Altoona, Pennsilvani
- Haitian: Altoona
- Hebrew: אלטונה
- Hindi: अल्टोना
- Hungarian: Altoona
- Ido: Altoona, Pensilvania
- Ido: Altoona
- Indonesian: Altoona
- Irish: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Irish: Altoona
- Italian: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Italian: Altoona
- Japanese: アルトゥーナ (ベンシルバニア州)
- Japanese: アルトゥーナ (ペンシルベニア州)
- Japanese: アルトゥーナ
- Kannada: ಆಲ್ಟೊನಾ
- Korean: 앨투나
- Ladin: Altoona (Pennsylvania)
- Ladin: Altoona
- Latvian: Altūna
- Lithuanian: Altūna
- Malagasy: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Malagasy: Altoona
- Malay: Altoona
- Marathi: अल्टोना
- Norwegian: Altoona
- Norwegian Bokmål: Altoona
- Persian: آلتونا، پنسیلوانیا
- Polish: Altoona (Pensylwania)
- Polish: Altoona
- Portuguese: Altoona
- Portuguese: Altoona (Pensilvânia)
- Russian: Алтуна (Пенсильвания)
- Russian: Алтуна
- Serbian: Altoona
- Serbian: Алтуна
- Serbo-Croatian: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Serbo-Croatian: Altoona
- Sinhala: ඇල්ටූනා
- Slovak: Altoona
- Slovenian: Altoona
- South Azerbaijani: آلتونا، پنسیلوانیا
- Spanish: Altoona
- Spanish: Altoona (Pensilvania)
- Swahili: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Swahili: Altoona
- Swedish: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Swedish: Altoona
- Tagalog: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Tagalog: Altoona
- Tamil: அல்டூனா
- Tatar: Алтуна (Пенсильвания)
- Tatar: Алтуна
- Telugu: ఆల్టూనా
- Thai: แอลทูนา
- Turkish: Altoona, Pensilvanya
- Turkish: Altoona
- Ukrainian: Алтуна
- Urdu: ایلٹونا، پنسلوانیا
- Vietnamese: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Vietnamese: Altoona
- Volapük: Altoona (PA)
- Volapük: Altoona (Pennsylvania)
- Volapük: Altoona, PA
- Volapük: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Volapük: Altoona
- Waray (Philippines): Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Waray (Philippines): Altoona
- Welsh: Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Welsh: Altoona
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