Ames
Ames is a pleasant college town in Central Iowa, sitting astride the Skunk River roughly 30 miles north of Des Moines. Life in Ames follows the ebb and flow of the academic year at Iowa State University, which is the city's primary draw.
- Type: City with 66,400 residents
- Description: city in Story County, Iowa, United States
- Also known as: “Ames (IA)”, “Ames (Iowa)”, “Ames, IA”, “Ames, Iowa”, “أميس (آيوا)”, and “เอมส์ (มลรัฐไอโอวา)”
- Postal codes: 50010-50014
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mary Greeley Medical Center and Municipal Building.
Mary Greeley Medical Center
Hospital
Mary Greeley Medical Center is a 220-bed regional medical center in Ames, Iowa.
Hilton Coliseum
Photo: Jaretac, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Iowa State Center.
Iowa State Center
Neighborhood
Photo: Jaretac, Public domain.Ames
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Franklin Township, Story, Central Iowa, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.0268° or 42° 1′ 36″ north
Longitude
-93.617° or 93° 37′ 1″ west
Population
66,400
Elevation
942 feet (287 metres)
IATA airport code
AMW
UN/LOCODE
US AMW
Open location code
86J829GM+P5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Ames” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أميس”
- Arabic: “أيمز”
- Armenian: “Էյմս”
- Asturian: “Ames”
- Basque: “Ames”
- Belarusian: “Эймс”
- Bengali: “অ্যামস”
- Bengali: “এমস”
- Catalan: “Ames”
- Cebuano: “Ames”
- Chechen: “Эймс”
- Chinese: “埃姆斯”
- Chinese: “艾姆斯”
- Czech: “Ames”
- Dagbani: “Ames”
- Danish: “Ames”
- Dutch: “Ames”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايمز”
- Esperanto: “Ejmso”
- Finnish: “Ames”
- French: “Ames”
- Galician: “Ames”
- Georgian: “ამესი”
- German: “Ames”
- Gilaki: “ایمز (آیؤوا)”
- Gilaki: “ایمز”
- Greek: “Έιμς”
- Gujarati: “એમ્સ”
- Haitian: “Ames, Iowa”
- Haitian: “Ames”
- Hebrew: “איימס”
- Hindi: “एम्स”
- Hungarian: “Ames”
- Ido: “Ames, Iowa”
- Ido: “Ames”
- Indonesian: “Ames, Iowa”
- Indonesian: “Ames”
- Irish: “Ames”
- Italian: “Ames”
- Japanese: “エイムズ”
- Kannada: “ಅಮೆಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Эймес”
- Kirghiz: “Эймес”
- Korean: “에임스 (아이오와 주)”
- Korean: “에임스”
- Ladin: “Ames”
- Latvian: “Eimsa”
- Lithuanian: “Eimsas”
- Lombard: “Ames”
- Malagasy: “Ames, Iowa”
- Malagasy: “Ames”
- Malay: “Ames”
- Marathi: “एम्स”
- Mazanderani: “ایمز (آیووا)”
- Mazanderani: “ایمز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ames”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ames”
- Norwegian: “Ames”
- Persian: “ایمز، آیووا”
- Persian: “ایمز”
- Polish: “Ames”
- Portuguese: “Ames”
- Russian: “Эймс”
- Russian: “Эймса”
- Serbian: “Ames”
- Serbian: “Ејмс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ames, Iowa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ames”
- Silesian: “Ames”
- Sinhala: “ඇමේස්”
- Slovak: “Ames”
- Slovenian: “Ames”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایمز، آیووا”
- Spanish: “Ames”
- Swahili: “Ames, Iowa”
- Swahili: “Ames”
- Swedish: “Ames, Iowa”
- Swedish: “Ames”
- Tamil: “அமெஸ்”
- Tatar: “Эймс”
- Telugu: “ఎయిమ్స్”
- Thai: “เอมส์”
- Turkish: “Ames, Iowa”
- Turkish: “Ames”
- Ukrainian: “Еймс”
- Urdu: “ایمز، آئیووا”
- Urdu: “ایمز”
- Uzbek: “Ames”
- Vietnamese: “Ames, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Ames”
- Volapük: “Ames”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ames, Iowa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ames”
- Welsh: “Ames, Iowa”
- Welsh: “Ames”
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