Great Falls
Great Falls in Virginia, within the United States of America. It's a suburb outside the DC beltway. Nearly all the businesses are found at either end of Walker Road.Photo: Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 16,000 residents
- Description: community in Fairfax County, Virginia
- Postal code: 22066
Notable Places in the Area
Great Falls
Great Falls is a series of rapids and waterfalls on the Potomac River, 14 miles upstream from Washington, D.C., on the border of Montgomery County, Maryland and Fairfax County, Virginia.Olmsted Island
Olmsted Island is a small island in the middle of the Potomac River in the U.S. state of Maryland, near Great Falls which is a part of C & O Canal National Historical Park, located across the river from Great Falls Park.Localities in the Area
Great Falls Crossing
Great Falls Crossing is a census designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.Browns Mill
Browns Mill is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Browns Mill is situated 5 km south of Great Falls.Wolf Trap
Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wolf Trap is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Wolf Trap is situated 7 km south of Great Falls.
Great Falls
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.9982° or 38° 59' 53" northLongitude
-77.2883° or 77° 17' 18" westPopulation
16,000Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)United Nations Location Code
US ZGSOpen Location Code
87C4XPX6+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 158571475OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4761951Wikidata ID
Q972543Great Falls Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Basque: Great Falls (Virginia)
- Basque: Great Falls
- Catalan: Great Falls
- Cebuano: Great Falls
- Chechen: Грейт-Фоллс (Виргини)
- Chechen: Грейт-Фоллс
- Chinese: Great Falls
- Chinese: 大瀑布城
- Danish: Great Falls
- Dutch: Great Falls
- English: Great Falls, VA
- English: Great Falls, Virginia
- French: Great Falls
- German: Great Falls
- Irish: Great Falls
- Italian: Great Falls
- Japanese: グレートフォールズ
- Japanese: グレート・フォールズ
- Japanese: グレート・フォールズ、バージニア州
- Ladin: Great Falls
- Min Nan Chinese: Great Falls
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Grēatfeallenbyrg (Uirginiæ)
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Grēatfeallenbyrg
- Persian: گریت فالز
- Persian: گریت فالز، ویرجینیا
- Polish: Great Falls (Wirginia)
- Polish: Great Falls
- Portuguese: Great Falls
- Russian: Грейт-Фолс
- Serbian: Грејт Фолс (Вирџинија)
- Serbian: Грејт Фолс
- Serbo-Croatian: Great Falls, Virginia
- Serbo-Croatian: Great Falls
- Slovak: Great Falls
- South Azerbaijani: قریت فالز، ویرجینیا
- Spanish: Great Falls
- Spanish: Great Falls (Virginia)
- Tatar: Грейт-Фоллс (Виргиния)
- Tatar: Грейт-Фоллс
- Turkish: Great Falls, Virginia
- Turkish: Great Falls
- Ukrainian: Грейт-Фоллс
- Uzbek: Great Falls
- Vietnamese: Great Falls
- Volapük: Great Falls
- Welsh: Great Falls, Virginia
- Welsh: Great Falls
- Forestville
Other Places Named Great Falls
Localities in the Area
- Hickory RunNeighbourhood
- Hickory CreekNeighbourhood
- Lexington EstatesNeighbourhood
- Old Mill EstatesNeighbourhood
- Mill Run AcresNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Great Falls. Photo: Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0.