Defiance
Defiance is a city in Shelby County, Iowa, United States, along the West Branch of the West Nishnabotna River. The population was 245 at the time of the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 245 residents
- Description: city in Shelby County, Iowa, United States
- Also known as: “Defiance, IA” and “Defiance, Iowa”
- Postal code: 51527
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Earling.
Earling
Village
Photo: Sultec, Public domain.
Earling is a city in Shelby County, Iowa, United States. The population was 397 at the time of the 2020 census. Earling is situated 5 miles southwest of Defiance.
Defiance
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Union Township, Shelby, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.82409° or 41° 49′ 27″ northLongitude
-95.34135° or 95° 20′ 29″ westPopulation
245Elevation
1,276 feet (389 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DFAOpen location code
86H6RMF5+JFOpenStreetMap ID
node 151870820OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Defiance” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديفيانس (آيوا)”
- Arabic: “ديفيانس”
- Basque: “Defiance”
- Catalan: “Defiance”
- Cebuano: “Defiance”
- Chechen: “Дифаэнс”
- Chinese: “Defiance”
- Chinese: “迪費安斯”
- Danish: “Defiance”
- Dutch: “Defiance”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديفيانس”
- French: “Defiance”
- German: “Defiance”
- Gilaki: “دیفاینس (آیؤوا)”
- Gilaki: “دیفاینس”
- Haitian: “Defiance, Iowa”
- Haitian: “Defiance”
- Ido: “Defiance, Iowa”
- Ido: “Defiance”
- Irish: “Defiance”
- Italian: “Defiance”
- Kazakh: “Défïans”
- Kazakh: “Дэфианс”
- Kazakh: “دەفىيانس”
- Kirghiz: “Дэфианс”
- Ladin: “Defiance”
- Malagasy: “Defiance, Iowa”
- Malagasy: “Defiance”
- Mazanderani: “دفیانس (آیووا)”
- Mazanderani: “دفیانس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Defiance”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Defiance”
- Persian: “دفیانس، آیووا”
- Persian: “دفیانس”
- Polish: “Defiance”
- Portuguese: “Defiance”
- Serbian: “Defiance”
- Serbian: “Дефајанс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Defiance, Iowa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Defiance”
- South Azerbaijani: “دفیانس، ایووا”
- Spanish: “Defiance”
- Swedish: “Defiance, Iowa”
- Swedish: “Defiance”
- Tatar: “Дифаэнс”
- Ukrainian: “Діфаєнс”
- Urdu: “ڈافائینس، آئیووا”
- Urdu: “ڈافائینس”
- Uzbek: “Defiance”
- Uzbek: “Дефианcе”
- Vietnamese: “Defiance, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Defiance”
- Volapük: “Defiance”
- Welsh: “Defiance, Iowa”
- Welsh: “Defiance”
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