Homer
Homer is a city on the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska and is long known as the "Halibut Fishing Capital of the World." It is also known as the "End of the Road".Photo: Beeblebrox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Keith Parker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: city in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
- Postal code: 99603
Notable Places in the Area
Homer Public Library
Library
Photo: Beeblebrox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Homer Public Library is located at 500 Hazel Avenue in Homer, Alaska.
Pratt Museum
Museum
Photo: Beeblebrox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pratt Museum is a regional natural history museum located in Homer, Alaska, with exhibits exploring life around Kachemak Bay in South Central Alaska.
Homer High School
School
Photo: Beeblebrox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Homer High School is located in Homer, Alaska. It is part of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.
Homer
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.6441° or 59° 38' 39" northLongitude
-151.5401° or 151° 32' 25" westPopulation
5,000Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)IATA airport code
HOMOpen Location Code
93FCJFV5+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 150917881OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5864145Wikidata ID
Q79441Homer Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Homer, Alaska
- Arabic: هومير
- Azerbaijani: Homer
- Basque: Homer
- Bengali: হুমার
- Catalan: Homer
- Cebuano: Homer
- Chechen: Гомер (Аляска)
- Chechen: Гомер
- Chinese: Homer
- Chinese: 荷馬
- Chinese: 荷马
- Czech: Homer
- Dagbani: Homer
- Danish: Homer, Alaska
- Danish: Homer
- Dutch: Homer
- Egyptian Arabic: هومير
- English: Homer, Alaska
- Finnish: Homer
- French: Homer
- German: Homer
- Greek: Χόμερ
- Gujarati: હોમર
- Haitian: Homer
- Hebrew: הומר
- Hindi: होमर
- Hungarian: Homer
- Indonesian: Homer
- Irish: Homer, Alasca
- Italian: Homer
- Japanese: ホーマー
- Kannada: ಹೋಮರ್
- Korean: 호머
- Ladin: Homer (Alaska)
- Ladin: Homer
- Latvian: Homera
- Lithuanian: Houmeris
- Malagasy: Homer, Alaska
- Malay: Homer
- Malayalam: ഹോമർ, അലാസ്ക
- Malayalam: ഹോമർ
- Marathi: होमर
- Min Nan Chinese: Homer
- Nepali: होमर, अलास्का
- Newari: होमर, अलास्का
- Newari: होमर
- Norwegian: Homer
- Norwegian Bokmål: Homer
- Occitan (post 1500): Homer
- Persian: میلر لندینگ، آلاسکا
- Persian: میلر لندینگ، الاسکا
- Polish: Homer
- Portuguese: Homer
- Russian: Хомер
- Serbian: Хомер (Аљаска)
- Serbian: Хомер
- Serbo-Croatian: Homer, Alaska
- Sicilian: Homer
- Sinhala: හෝමර්
- Slovak: Homer
- South Azerbaijani: میلر لندینق، آلاسکا
- Spanish: Homer
- Spanish: Homer, Alaska
- Swedish: Homer, Alaska
- Swedish: Homer
- Talysh: Homer (šəhr)
- Talysh: Homer
- Tamil: ஹோமர்
- Tatar: Гомер (Аляска)
- Tatar: Гомер
- Telugu: హోమర్
- Thai: โฮเมอร์
- Turkish: Homer, Alaska
- Turkish: Homer
- Ukrainian: Гомер
- Urdu: ہومر، الاسکا
- Uzbek: Homer
- Vietnamese: Homer
- Volapük: Homer
- Waray (Philippines): Homer
- Western Mari: Хомер
Other Places Named Homer
Localities in the Area
- Old TownNeighbourhood
- Quiet CreekNeighbourhood
- Diamond RidgeHamlet, 3½ km north
- Millers LandingLocality, 6 km northeast
- Kachemak CityHamlet, 7 km northeast
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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 Homer. Photo: Keith Parker, CC BY-SA 2.0.