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.
- Type: City with 189,000 residents
- Description: city in and seat of Summit County, Ohio, United States
- Also known as: “AKRB”, “Akron (Ohio)”, “Akron City”, “Akron, OH”, “Akron, Ohio”, “City of Akron”, “New Portage”, “Summitville”, “Urbs Acronis”, “Έικρον”, “Акран, Агаё”, and “艾克朗”
- Postal codes: 44301-44317, 44319-44321, 44325, 44326, 44328, 44333, 44372, 44396, and 44398
Places of Interest
Highlights: Akron Art Museum and Summa Health Akron Campus.
Akron Art Museum
Museum
Photo: Sleepydre, Public domain.
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″ north
Longitude
-81.5185° or 81° 31′ 7″ west
Population
189,000
Elevation
955 feet (291 metres)
Open location code
86HW3FMJ+6J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- Bengali: “অ্যাক্রন”
- Breton: “Akron”
- Bulgarian: “Акрън”
- Catalan: “Akron”
- Cebuano: “Akron”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاکرۆن”
- Chechen: “Акрон”
- 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: “Akron”
- French: “Akron”
- Galician: “Akron, Ohio”
- Galician: “Akron”
- Georgian: “აკრონი”
- German: “Akron”
- Gilaki: “أکرؤن (اؤهایؤ)”
- Gilaki: “أکرؤن”
- Greek: “Άκρον”
- Gujarati: “એક્રોન”
- Haitian: “Akron, Ohio”
- Haitian: “Akron”
- Hebrew: “אקרון”
- Hindi: “एक्रोन”
- Hungarian: “Akron”
- Icelandic: “Akron”
- 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”
- Latin: “Acro”
- Latvian: “Akrona”
- Lithuanian: “Akronas”
- Luxembourgish: “Akron”
- Macedonian: “Акрон”
- Malagasy: “Akron, Ohio”
- Malagasy: “Akron”
- Malay: “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”
- Scots: “Akron, Ohio”
- Scots: “Akron”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Akron, Ohio”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Akron”
- Serbian: “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”
- 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”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Akron”.
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Historic Arts District and Oak Park.
Ohio: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Columbus and Cincinnati.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.