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Silao de la Victoria

Silao

Silao, officially Silao de la Victoria, is a city in the west-central part of the state of in Mexico. It is the seat of the municipality with the same name.
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  • Type: City with 83,400 residents
  • Description: municipal seat of Silao, State of Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Silao de la Victoria”

Silao

Latitude
20.9437° or 20° 56′ 37″ north
Longitude
-101.427° or 101° 25′ 37″ west
Population
83,400
Elevation
1,780 metres (5,840 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MX SIL
Open location code
75GWWHVF+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273602251
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3983058
Wiki­data ID
Q1962063
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Silao” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيلاو”
  • Asturian: “Silao”
  • Catalan: “Silao”
  • Cebuano: “Silao”
  • Chechen: “Силао (Силао, Гуанахуато)”
  • Chechen: “Силао”
  • Chinese: “錫勞”
  • Chinese: “锡劳”
  • Dutch: “Silao de la Victoria”
  • Dutch: “Silao”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيلاو”
  • Esperanto: “Silao de la Victoria”
  • French: “Silao de la Victoria”
  • French: “Silao, Guanajuato”
  • French: “Silao, Mexique”
  • French: “Silao”
  • Friulian: “Silao”
  • Hausa: “Silao”
  • Hungarian: “Silao de la Victoria”
  • Hungarian: “Silao”
  • Italian: “Silao”
  • Lithuanian: “Silao de la Viktorija”
  • Lithuanian: “Silao”
  • Malagasy: “Silao”
  • Malay: “Silao”
  • Oriya: “ସିଲାଓ”
  • Persian: “سیلاو”
  • Polish: “Silao”
  • Portuguese: “Silao”
  • Russian: “Силао”
  • Serbian: “Силао”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Silao, Guanajuato”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Silao”
  • Silesian: “Silao”
  • Spanish: “Silao de la Victoria”
  • Spanish: “Silao”
  • Swedish: “Silao, Mexiko”
  • Swedish: “Silao”
  • Tatar: “Силао (Силао, Гуанахуато )”
  • Tatar: “Силао”
  • Venetian: “Silao”

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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 “Silao”. Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0.