Akron
Akron is a city of almost 200,000 people in the Northeast Ohio region in Summit County. Akron is proud of its heritage as a center of industry, and now offers visitors a wide range of recreational and cultural attractions, food experiences, and shopping.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 189,000 residents
- Description: city and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, United States
- Also known as: “Akron City”, “Akron, OH”, “Akron, Ohio”, “City of Akron”, “New Portage”, and “Summitville”
- Postal codes: 44301-44317, 44319-44321, 44325, 44326, 44328, 44333, 44372, 44396, and 44398
Places of Interest
Highlights include Akron Art Museum and Summa Health Akron Campus.
Akron Art Museum
Museum
Photo: Sleepydre, Public domain.
The Akron Art Museum is an art museum in Akron, Ohio, United States. The museum first opened on February 1, 1922, as the Akron Art Institute. It was located in two borrowed rooms in the basement of the public library.
Summa Health Akron Campus
Hospital
Summa Health Akron Campus, formerly known as Akron City Hospital, part of Summa Health System, was founded in 1892 in Akron, Ohio, United States as The City Hospital.
7 17 Credit Union Park
Stadium
Photo: Rdikeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
7 17 Credit Union Park is a baseball stadium in Akron, Ohio, United States, and the home of the Akron RubberDucks of the Eastern League, the Double-A minor-league affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians.
Akron
- Categories: county seat, city in the United States, big city, city of Ohio, and locality
- Location: City of Akron, Summit, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.0831° or 41° 4′ 59″ northLongitude
-81.5185° or 81° 31′ 7″ westPopulation
189,000Elevation
955 feet (291 metres)Open location code
86HW3FMJ+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 153847849OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5145476Wikidata ID
Q163132
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Akron” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Akron, Ohio”
- Albanian: “Akron, Ohio”
- Albanian: “Akron”
- Arabic: “آكرون”
- Aragonese: “Akron”
- Armenian: “Ակրոն”
- Asturian: “Akron”
- Azerbaijani: “Akron”
- Basque: “Akron”
- Belarusian: “Акран, Агаё”
- Belarusian: “Акран”
- Bengali: “অ্যাক্রন”
- Breton: “Akron”
- Bulgarian: “Акрън”
- Catalan: “Akron”
- Cebuano: “Akron”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاکرۆن”
- Chechen: “Акрон”
- Chinese: “Akron”
- Chinese: “亞克朗”
- Chinese: “艾克朗”
- Chinese: “阿克伦”
- Chinese: “阿克倫”
- Cornish: “Akron, Ohio”
- Cornish: “Akron”
- Croatian: “Akron, Ohio”
- Croatian: “Akron”
- Czech: “Akron”
- Dagbani: “Akron”
- Danish: “Akron”
- Dutch: “Akron”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آكرون”
- Esperanto: “Akron”
- Esperanto: “Akrono”
- Estonian: “Akron”
- Finnish: “AKRB”
- Finnish: “Akron”
- French: “Akron”
- Galician: “Akron, Ohio”
- Galician: “Akron”
- Georgian: “აკრონი”
- German: “Akron”
- Gilaki: “أکرؤن (اؤهایؤ)”
- Gilaki: “أکرؤن”
- Greek: “Άκρον”
- Greek: “Έικρον”
- Gujarati: “એક્રોન”
- Haitian: “Akron, Ohio”
- Haitian: “Akron”
- Hebrew: “אקרון”
- Hindi: “एक्रोन”
- Hungarian: “Akron (Ohio)”
- Hungarian: “Akron, OH”
- Hungarian: “Akron”
- Icelandic: “Akron”
- Ido: “Akron, Ohio”
- Ido: “Akron”
- Indonesian: “Akron, Ohio”
- Interlingua: “Akron”
- Irish: “Akron, Ohio”
- Irish: “Akron”
- Italian: “Akron”
- Japanese: “アクロン”
- Kannada: “ಅಕ್ರಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Экрон”
- Kirghiz: “Экрон”
- Korean: “애크런”
- Ladin: “Akron”
- Latvian: “Akrona”
- Lithuanian: “Akronas”
- Luxembourgish: “Akron”
- Macedonian: “Акрон”
- Malagasy: “Akron, Ohio”
- Malagasy: “Akron”
- Malay: “Akron”
- Malayalam: “Akron”
- Malayalam: “അക്രോൺ”
- Marathi: “ॲक्रन”
- Marathi: “अॅक्रन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Akron”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akron”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akron”
- Norwegian: “Akron”
- Ossetian: “Акрон”
- Persian: “اکران، اوهایو”
- Persian: “اکران”
- Persian: “اکرن”
- Piemontese: “Akron”
- Polish: “Akron”
- Portuguese: “Akron”
- Romanian: “Akron, Ohio”
- Romanian: “Akron”
- Russian: “Акрон”
- Russian: “Экрон”
- Scots: “Akron, Ohio”
- Scots: “Akron”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Akron, Ohio”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Akron”
- Serbian: “Akron”
- Serbian: “City of Akron”
- Serbian: “Акрон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Akron, Ohio”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Akron”
- Silesian: “Akron”
- Sinhala: “ඇක්රෝන්”
- Slovak: “Akron”
- Slovenian: “Akron, Ohio”
- Slovenian: “Akron”
- South Azerbaijani: “اکران، اوهایو”
- Spanish: “Akron (Ohio)”
- Spanish: “Akron”
- Swahili: “Akron, Ohio”
- Swahili: “Akron”
- Swedish: “Akron, Ohio”
- Swedish: “Akron”
- Tagalog: “Akron, Ohio”
- Tagalog: “Akron”
- Tamil: “ஏக்ரன்”
- Tatar: “Әкрен”
- Tatar: “Әкрон”
- Telugu: “అక్రోన్”
- Thai: “แอครอน”
- Thai: “แอเคริน”
- Turkish: “Akron, Ohio”
- Turkish: “Akron”
- Ukrainian: “Акрон”
- Urdu: “اکرون، اوہائیو”
- Urdu: “اکرون”
- Uzbek: “Akron”
- Venetian: “Akron”
- Vietnamese: “Akron, Ohio”
- Vietnamese: “Akron”
- Volapük: “Akron”
- Waray (Philippines): “Akron, Ohio”
- Waray (Philippines): “Akron”
- Welsh: “Akron, Ohio”
- Welsh: “Akron”
- Western Armenian: “Աքրոն”
- Western Frisian: “Akron”
- Wu Chinese: “阿克伦（俄亥俄州）”
- Wu Chinese: “阿克伦”
- Yakut: “Акрон”
- Yue Chinese: “亞克朗”
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