Akron

Akron is a city of almost 200,000 people in the 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.
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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.

Museum
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The 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.

Hospital
, formerly known as Akron City Hospital, part of Summa Health System, was founded in 1892 in Akron, Ohio, United States as The City Hospital.

Theater building
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The is a theater in Akron, Ohio. It is one of only five remaining atmospheric theatres designed by John Eberson in the United States and is an excellent example of the great movie palaces of the 1920s.

Akron

Latitude
41.0831° or 41° 4′ 59″ north
Longitude
-81.5185° or 81° 31′ 7″ west
Population
189,000
Elevation
955 feet (291 metres)
IATA airport code
CAK
United Nations Location Codes
US AKH and US SVO
Open location code
86HW3FMJ+6J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153847849
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5145476
Wiki­data ID
Q163132
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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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