Central Iowa
Polk
Crocker Township

Ankeny

Ankeny is a city in , United States and a suburb of the state capital of . The population was 67,887 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 76,727 in 2024, making it the fifth-most populous city in Iowa.
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  • Type: City with 76,200 residents
  • Description: city in Polk County, Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: “Ankenny”, “Ankeny, IA”, and “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Postal code: 50021

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oralabor.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States.

Ankeny

Latitude
41.7321° or 41° 43′ 56″ north
Longitude
-93.6051° or 93° 36′ 18″ west
Population
76,200
Elevation
991 feet (302 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US AKE
Open location code
86H8P9JV+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151849756
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4846960
Wiki­data ID
Q556989
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ankeny” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أنكيني”
  • Basque: “Ankeny”
  • Bulgarian: “Анкенй”
  • Catalan: “Ankeny”
  • Cebuano: “Ankeny”
  • Chechen: “Анкени”
  • Chinese: “Ankeny”
  • Chinese: “安克尼”
  • Czech: “Ankeny”
  • Danish: “Ankeny”
  • Dutch: “Ankeny (Iowa)”
  • Dutch: “Ankeny”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انكينى”
  • French: “Ankeny”
  • Georgian: “ანკენი”
  • German: “Ankeny”
  • Gilaki: “أنکني (آیؤوا)”
  • Gilaki: “أنکني”
  • Haitian: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Haitian: “Ankeny”
  • Ido: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Ido: “Ankeny”
  • Indonesian: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Indonesian: “Ankeny”
  • Irish: “Ankeny”
  • Italian: “Ankeny”
  • Japanese: “アンケニー”
  • Kazakh: “Анкэни”
  • Kirghiz: “Анкэни”
  • Ladin: “Ankeny”
  • Malagasy: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Malagasy: “Ankeny”
  • Mazanderani: “انکنی (آیووا)”
  • Mazanderani: “انکنی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ankeny”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ankeny”
  • Norwegian: “Ankeny”
  • Persian: “انکنی، آیووا”
  • Persian: “انکنی”
  • Polish: “Ankeny”
  • Portuguese: “Ankeny (Iowa)”
  • Portuguese: “Ankeny”
  • Romanian: “Ankeny, iowa”
  • Romanian: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Romanian: “Ankeny”
  • Russian: “Анкени (Айова)”
  • Russian: “Анкени”
  • Serbian: “Анкени”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ankeny”
  • Slovak: “Ankeny”
  • South Azerbaijani: “انکنی، آیووا”
  • Spanish: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Spanish: “Ankeny”
  • Swahili: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Swahili: “Ankeny”
  • Swedish: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Swedish: “Ankeny”
  • Tatar: “Анкени”
  • Turkish: “Ankeny”
  • Ukrainian: “Анкені”
  • Urdu: “انکینی، آئیووا”
  • Urdu: “انکینی”
  • Uzbek: “Ankeny, IA”
  • Uzbek: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Uzbek: “Ankeny”
  • Vietnamese: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Vietnamese: “Ankeny”
  • Volapük: “Ankeny (IA)”
  • Volapük: “Ankeny (Iowa)”
  • Volapük: “Ankeny, IA”
  • Volapük: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Volapük: “Ankeny”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ankeny”
  • Welsh: “Ankeny, Iowa”
  • Welsh: “Ankeny”
  • “Ankeny”

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