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Austin is a city of about 965,000 people on the southeast edge of the region of , making it the fourth-largest city in the state and the 11th-largest in the country.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include South Austin and Northwest Austin.

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can refer to any part of Austin, Texas south of Lady Bird Lake and the downtown area, although many people use it to specifically refer to the south-central area directly south of downtown in the 78704 zip code.

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is an area in Austin, , west of the Mo-Pac freeway and/or north of Anderson Lane.

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is a district of Austin, , west of IH-35, north of Lady Bird Lake, and south of MLK Street.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as East Austin and UT and the Drag.

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is a district of Austin, to the north of Lady Bird Lake and to the east of IH-35. This includes the area set aside as the "Negro district" in the infamous 1928 official city segregation plan, and "Mexicans" were informally encouraged to concentrate here.

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The University of Texas and the Drag form a district of Austin. This article also covers the "West Campus" and "North University" neighborhoods.

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is in Austin, several miles north of downtown, but not as far north as what is now called "North Austin". This article also covers the "Brentwood" and "Crestview" neighborhoods, as well as the area around ACC Highland.

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is a district in Austin, about a mile north of the University of Texas. It is known in Austin for being the earliest significant residential development outside the old nineteenth-century downtown city core, for containing some interesting old houses, and for being a bastion of political liberalism.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Texas State Capitol and Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum.

Government building
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The is the capitol and seat of government of the U.S. state of . Located in Austin, Texas, the structure houses the offices and chambers of the Texas Legislature and of the Governor of Texas.

Museum
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The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library, is the presidential library and of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. The arena, which replaced the , stands on a former parking lot located immediately south of UT's soccer/track and field venue, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rollingwood and West Lake Hills.

Village
is a city in , , United States. Part of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan area, the population was 1,467 at the 2020 census.

Village
is a city in , United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,444. It is a suburb west of central Austin.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood located on Avenue in Austin, Texas known as a shopping and cultural district with many eclectic small retailers, restaurants, music and art venues and, more recently, food trucks.

Austin

Latitude
30.2711° or 30° 16′ 16″ north
Longitude
-97.7437° or 97° 44′ 37″ west
Population
974,000
Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)
IATA airport code
AUS
United Nations Location Code
US AUS
Open location code
862477C4+FG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1801308037
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4671654
Wiki­data ID
Q16559
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Austin” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Austin, Texas”
  • Afrikaans: “Austin”
  • Albanian: “Austin”
  • Albanian: “Ostin”
  • Amharic: “ኦስቲን፣ ቴክሳስ”
  • Amharic: “ኦስቲን”
  • Arabic: “أوستن”
  • Arabic: “اوستن”
  • Aragonese: “Austin”
  • Armenian: “Օստին”
  • Asturian: “Austin, Texas”
  • Asturian: “Austin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ostin”
  • Balinese: “Austin, Texas”
  • Bambara: “Austin”
  • Basque: “Austin”
  • Bavarian: “Austin”
  • Belarusian: “Остын”
  • Belarusian: “Осцін”
  • Bengali: “অস্টিন”
  • Bislama: “Austin, Texas”
  • Bislama: “Austin”
  • Bosnian: “Austin”
  • Breton: “Austin”
  • Bulgarian: “Остин”
  • Burmese: “အော်စတင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Austin”
  • Cebuano: “Austin, Texas”
  • Cebuano: “Austin”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆستن، تێکساس”
  • Chechen: “Остин”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏍᏘᏂ”
  • Cheyenne: “Austin”
  • Chinese: “Austin”
  • Chinese: “奥斯汀 / 柯士甸”
  • Chinese: “奥斯汀”
  • Chinese: “奧斯汀”
  • Chinese: “柯士甸”
  • Chuvash: “Остин”
  • Cornish: “Austin, Teksas”
  • Cornish: “Austin”
  • Corsican: “Austin”
  • Croatian: “Austin”
  • Czech: “Austin”
  • Danish: “Austin”
  • Dutch: “Austin, TX”
  • Dutch: “Austin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوستن”
  • Esperanto: “Austin”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭstino”
  • Estonian: “Austin”
  • Ewe: “Austin”
  • Extremaduran: “Austin”
  • Faroese: “Austin”
  • Finnish: “Austin, Texas”
  • Finnish: “Austin”
  • French: “Austin”
  • Galician: “Austin, Texas”
  • Galician: “Austin”
  • Gan Chinese: “奧斯汀”
  • Georgian: “ოსტინი”
  • German: “Austin”
  • German: “Live Music Capital of the World”
  • German: “Montopolis”
  • Gilaki: “آستين”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌽”
  • Greek: “Όστιν”
  • Greek: “Ώστιν”
  • Guarani: “Austin”
  • Gujarati: “ઓસ્ટિન”
  • Haitian: “Austin, Texas”
  • Haitian: “Austin”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Austin”
  • Hakka Chinese: “O-sṳ̂-tin”
  • Hausa: “Austin”
  • Hebrew: “אוסטין”
  • Hindi: “ऑस्टिन, टेक्सास”
  • Hindi: “ऑस्टिन”
  • Hungarian: “Austin”
  • Icelandic: “Austin”
  • Ido: “Austin, Texas”
  • Ido: “Austin”
  • Iloko: “Austin, Texas”
  • Iloko: “Austin”
  • Inari Sami: “Austin”
  • Indonesian: “Austin, Texas”
  • Indonesian: “Austin”
  • Interlingua: “Austin”
  • Interlingue: “Austin”
  • Irish: “Austin, Texas”
  • Irish: “Austin”
  • Italian: “Austin”
  • Japanese: “オースティン”
  • Kabyle: “Austin”
  • Kannada: “ಆಸ್ಚಿನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Остин”
  • Kirghiz: “Остин”
  • Komering: “Austin”
  • Korean: “오스틴”
  • Kurdish: “Austin, Teksas”
  • Kurdish: “Austin”
  • Ladin: “Austin”
  • Ladino: “Austin”
  • Latin: “Augustinopolis”
  • Latin: “Austinopolis”
  • Latvian: “Ostina”
  • Ligurian: “Austin”
  • Limburgan: “Austin”
  • Lithuanian: “Ostinas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Austin”
  • Macedonian: “Остин”
  • Malagasy: “Austin, Texas”
  • Malagasy: “Austin”
  • Malay: “Austin, Texas”
  • Malay: “Austin”
  • Malayalam: “ഓസ്റ്റിൻ”
  • Maltese: “Austin”
  • Marathi: “ऑस्टिन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Austin”
  • Mingrelian: “ოსთინი”
  • Mingrelian: “ოსტინი”
  • Mirandese: “Austin”
  • Mongolian: “Остин”
  • Neapolitan: “Austin”
  • Newari: “अस्तिन, तेक्सास”
  • Newari: “अस्तिन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Austin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Austin”
  • Norwegian: “Austin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Austin”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēastūnburh”
  • Ossetian: “Остин”
  • Pali: “अस्टिन”
  • Pampanga: “Austin, Texas”
  • Pampanga: “Austin”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਸਟਿਨ, ਟੈਕਸਸ”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਸਟਿਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Austin”
  • Persian: “آستین، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “آستین”
  • Piemontese: “Austin”
  • Polish: “Austin”
  • Portuguese: “Austin”
  • Quechua: “Austin”
  • Romanian: “Austin, Texas”
  • Romanian: “Austin”
  • Russian: “Остин”
  • Samogitian: “Ostins”
  • Sanskrit: “आस्टिन्”
  • Sardinian: “Austin”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Austin”
  • Scots: “Austin, Texas”
  • Scots: “Austin”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Austin”
  • Serbian: “Остин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Austin, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Austin”
  • Sicilian: “Austin”
  • Silesian: “Austin”
  • Sinhala: “ඔස්ටින්”
  • Slovak: “Austin”
  • Slovenian: “Austin, Teksas”
  • Slovenian: “Austin”
  • Somali: “Austin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آستین، تگزاس”
  • Spanish: “Austin”
  • Swahili: “Austin, Texas”
  • Swahili: “Austin”
  • Swedish: “Austin, Texas”
  • Swedish: “Austin”
  • Tagalog: “Austin, Texas”
  • Tagalog: “Austin”
  • Tajik: “Австин”
  • Talysh: “Ostin”
  • Tamil: “ஆஸ்டின்”
  • Tatar: “Остин”
  • Telugu: “ఆస్టిన్”
  • Thai: “ออสติน”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Austin, Texas”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Austin”
  • Tumbuka: “Austin, Texas”
  • Tumbuka: “Austin”
  • Turkish: “Austin, Texas”
  • Turkish: “Austin”
  • Turkmen: “Awstin”
  • Uighur: “Austin”
  • Ukrainian: “Остін”
  • Urdu: “آسٹن، ٹیکساس”
  • Urdu: “آسٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Austin”
  • Uzbek: “Ostin”
  • Venetian: “Austin”
  • Venetian: “Ostin”
  • Veps: “Ostin”
  • Vietnamese: “Austin, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Austin”
  • Vlax Romani: “Austin”
  • Volapük: “Austin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Austin, Texas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Austin”
  • Welsh: “Austin”
  • Western Frisian: “Austin”
  • Western Mari: “Остин”
  • Western Panjabi: “آسٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥斯汀”
  • Yakut: “Остин”
  • Yiddish: “אסטין”
  • Yoruba: “Austin”
  • Yue Chinese: “柯士甸”
  • “Austin”
  • “Ostins”

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