Dale or dales may refer to:
Locations
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Dale (landform)
A dale is an open valley. ''Dale'' is a synonym of the word ''valley''. The name is used when describing the geography, physical geography of an area. It is used most frequently in the Scottish Lowlands, Lowlands of Scotland and in Northern Eng ...
, an open valley
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Dale (place name element)
A dale is a valley. It was commonly used in northern England and Scotland to denote an open valley as a dale, contrasted with a gill or narrow valley.
List of places
Places where dale is part of the name, but not the entire common name:
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Geography
;Australia
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The Dales (Christmas Island), in the Indian Ocean
;Canada
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Dale, Ontario
;Ethiopia
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;Norway
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Dale, Fjaler
Dale or Dale i Sunnfjord is the administrative centre of the municipality of Fjaler in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located at the mouth of the river Vassdalselva on the southern shore of the Dalsfjorden in the northern part of Fjal ...
, the administrative centre of Fjaler municipality, Vestland county
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Dale, Sel
Dale is a village in Sel Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located about west of the town of Otta. The village is located along the Otta River. The Norwegian National Road 15 runs through the village.
The village had ...
, a village in Sel municipality in Innlandet county
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Dale, Vaksdal, the administrative centre of Vaksdal municipality, Vestland county
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Dale, Vaksdal, the administrative bop on the head
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Dale Church (Fjaler), a church in Fjaler municipality, Vestland county
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Dale Church (Luster)
Dale Church ( no, Dale kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Luster on the western shore of the Lustrafjorden. It is the church for the Dale parish w ...
, a church in Luster municipality, Vestland county
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Dale Church (Vaksdal)
Dale Church ( no, Dale kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vaksdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Dale. It is the church for the Dale parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti ...
, a church in Vaksdal municipality, Vestland county
*Dale Church (also known as
Norddal Church), a church in Fjord municipality, Møre og Romsdal county
;Poland
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Dale, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland)
;Sweden
*The Dales, English
exonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
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Dalarna
Dalarna () is a '' landskap'' (historical province) in central Sweden. English exonyms for it are Dalecarlia () and the Dales.
Dalarna adjoins Härjedalen, Hälsingland, Gästrikland, Västmanland and Värmland. It is also bordered by Norwa ...
province
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Dale, Cumbria, a hamlet in England
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Dale, Derbyshire, England
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Dale, Pembrokeshire
Dale is both a small village and a community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, located on the peninsula which forms the northern side of the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway. The village has 205 inhabitants according to the 2001 census, increasin ...
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Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales ( ) is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 71,116. Much of it is in the Peak District, although most of its population lies along the River Derwent.
The borough borders ...
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Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in the historic county of Yorkshire, England, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954.
The Dales comprise river valleys and the hills rising from the Vale of York w ...
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;United States
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Dale, Illinois
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Dale, Indiana
Dale is a town in Carter Township, Spencer County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 1,593 at the 2010 census.
History
Dale was originally called Elizabeth, and under the latter name was laid out in 1843. When a post office was ...
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Dale, Boone County, Indiana
Dale is an unincorporated community in Center Township, Boone County, in the U.S. state of Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States ...
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Dale, Iowa
Dale is an unincorporated community in Guthrie County, Iowa, United States.
History
Dale was laid out in 1856 by John Lonsdale. A post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting ...
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Dale, Kentucky
Fort Thomas is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States, on the southern bank of the Ohio River and the site of an 1890 US Army post. The population was 16,325 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city in Campb ...
, a defunct community since annexed to Fort Thomas
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Dale, Michigan, in Tobacco Township
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Dale, Minnesota
Dale is a ghost town in section 34 of Highland Grove Township in Clay County, Minnesota, United States.
History
The village of Dale was established by Andrew L. Jelsing when he purchased and moved Ole Gol's saloon from Winnipeg Junction. In add ...
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Dale, Nebraska
Dale is a ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missour ...
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Dale, New York
Dale is a hamlet in Wyoming County, New York, United States. The community is north-northwest of Warsaw. Dale has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and p ...
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Dale, Oklahoma
Dale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on State Highway 270 in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. It lies in the North Canadian River bottom, a few miles northwest of Shawnee
The Shawnee are an Alg ...
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Dale, Oregon
Dale is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 395 within the Umatilla National Forest about 17 miles south of Ukiah. It is near the Umatilla-Grant County border just south of the 45th p ...
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Dale, Pennsylvania
Dale is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,234 at the 2010 census, down from 1,503 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Dale is located ...
*Dale, Berks County, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
*Dale, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
*Dale, Texas, an unincorporated community
*Dale, West Virginia
*Dale, Wisconsin
*Dale (CDP), Wisconsin
*Dale City, Virginia
*Dale County, Alabama
*Dale County School District in Alabama
*Dales, California
People
*Dale (given name)
*Dale (surname)
Entertainment and Fiction
*Dale Gribble, a character on the animated series ''King of the Hill''
*Dale Cooper, a character on the TV series ''Twin Peaks''
*Dale Horvath, a character in the comic and TV series ''The Walking Dead''
*Dale (film), ''Dale'' (film), a film about the life of Dale Earnhardt
*Minor places in Middle-earth#Dale, Dale (Middle-earth), a city in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth
*''The Dales'', a BBC radio soap opera originally called ''Mrs Dale's Diary''
*Dale (album), ''Dale'' (album), album by American rapper Pitbull released in 2015
*The Dalelands, a geographical area in the fictional world of the ''Forgotten Realms''
*Dale Bishop, the local sheriff of Bristol Cove, Washington (state), Washington, and recurring character of Freeform's 2018 television show''Siren (TV series), Siren''.
*Dale, one of the ''Chip 'n' Dale'' animated chipmunks created by the Walt Disney Company
Other
*Dale (automobile)
*Dale (crater) on the Moon
*Dale of Norway, a textile company based in Dale, Vaksdal municipality, Norway
*''The Dale'', nickname for Rochdale A.F.C.
*''Boy Scouts of America v. Dale'', a First Amendment opinion from the US Supreme Court
*USS Dale, USS ''Dale'', various ships
*Dale Electronics, Inc., of Columbus, Nebraska, USA, an electronic components manufacturer, acquired by Vishay Intertechnology in 1985
See also
*Dell (landform), a small wooded valley
*Dell (disambiguation)
*Vale (disambiguation), a wide river valley
*Dales pony
*The Dales (disambiguation)
*Dalles (disambiguation)
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