Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge is the capital of , USA. Located on the east bank of the mighty , Baton Rouge is Louisiana's second largest city, home of Louisiana State University, major port facilities, and a variety of attractions.
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  • City with about 227,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 50 feet (10 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code BTR
  • Description: capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana and seat of East Baton Rouge Parish
  • Postal codes
    70801-70823
    70825-70827
    70831
    70833
    70835-70837
    70874
    70879
    70884
    70891-70896
    70898
  • Also known as
    “Baton Rouge, LA”
    “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
    “Dironbourg”
    “New Richmond”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Louisiana State Capitol and USS Kidd.
Public building
The is the seat of government…
, a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first…
The Capitol Park Museum is a branch of the Louisiana State Museum located at 660 N.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Port Allen and Spanish Town.
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is a town in the region…
Neighborhood
is a historic district anchored…
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Latitude
30.4494° or 30° 26′ 58″ north
Longitude
-91.187° or 91° 11′ 13″ west
UN/LOCODE
US BTR
Open location code
862CCRX7+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Baton Rouge” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Baton Rouge”
  • Albanian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Amharic: “ባተን ሩዥ”
  • Amharic: “ባቶን ሩዝ”
  • Arabic: “باتون روج”
  • Aragonese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Armenian: “Բաթոն Ռուժ”
  • Asturian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baton Ruj”
  • Basque: “Baton Rouge”
  • Belarusian: “Батан-Руж”
  • Belarusian: “Батон-Руж”
  • Bengali: “ব্যাটন রুজ, লুইজিয়ানা”
  • Bengali: “ব্যাটন রুজ”
  • Bislama: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Bislama: “Baton Rouge”
  • Bosnian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Breton: “Baton Rouge”
  • Bulgarian: “Батън Руж”
  • Cajun French: “Bâton-Rouge”
  • Catalan: “Baton Rouge”
  • Cebuano: “Baton Rouge”
  • Central Kurdish: “باتن ڕووگ”
  • Chechen: “Батон-Руж”
  • Chinese: “巴吞魯日”
  • Chinese: “巴吞鲁日”
  • Chinese: “巴頓魯治”
  • Chinese: “巴頓魯治市”
  • Cornish: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Cornish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Corsican: “Baton Rouge”
  • Croatian: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Croatian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Czech: “Baton Rouge”
  • Dagbani: “Baton Rouge”
  • Danish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Baton Rouge”
  • Dutch: “Baton Rouge”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باتون روچ”
  • Emilian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Esperanto: “Baton Rouge”
  • Esperanto: “Baton-Ruzo”
  • Estonian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Faroese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Finnish: “Baton Rouge”
  • French: “Bâton-Rouge”
  • Galician: “Baton Rouge, Luisiana”
  • Galician: “Baton Rouge”
  • Georgian: “ბატონ-რუჟი”
  • German: “Baton Rouge (Louisiana)”
  • German: “Baton Rouge”
  • Gilaki: “باتۊن رۊژ (لۊئيزيانا)”
  • Gilaki: “باتۊن رۊژ”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐍄𐍉𐌽 𐍂𐌿𐌲”
  • Greek: “Μπατόν Ρουζ, Λουιζιάνα”
  • Greek: “Μπατόν Ρουζ”
  • Gujarati: “બેટન રુજ”
  • Haitian: “Batonrouj”
  • Haitian: “Batonwouj”
  • Hausa: “Baton Rouge”
  • Hebrew: “באטון רוג‘”
  • Hebrew: “באטון רוז‘”
  • Hindi: “बटौन रूज़्श”
  • Hindi: “बेटन रूज, लुईज़ियाना”
  • Hindi: “बेटन रूज”
  • Hungarian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Icelandic: “Baton Rouge”
  • Ido: “Baton Rouge”
  • Iloko: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Iloko: “Baton Rouge”
  • Indonesian: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Indonesian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Interlingua: “Baton Rouge”
  • Interlingue: “Baton Rouge”
  • Irish: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Irish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Italian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Japanese: “バトン・ルージュ (ルイジアナ)”
  • Japanese: “バトン・ルージュ”
  • Javanese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇಟನ್ ರೂಜ್”
  • Kashmiri: “بیٹن روٗج، لوزیانا”
  • Kashmiri: “بیٹن روٗج”
  • Kazakh: “Батон-Руж”
  • Kirghiz: “Батон-Руж”
  • Komering: “Baton Rouge”
  • Korean: “바통루지”
  • Korean: “배턴루지”
  • Kurdish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Ladin: “Baton Rouge”
  • Latin: “Baton Rouge”
  • Latin: “Rubribaculum”
  • Latin: “Rubrobastum”
  • Latvian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Latvian: “Batonrūža”
  • Ligurian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Lithuanian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Lithuanian: “Baton Ružas”
  • Low German: “Baton Rouge”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Macedonian: “Батон Руж”
  • Malagasy: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Malagasy: “Baton Rouge”
  • Malay: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Malay: “Baton Rouge”
  • Marathi: “बॅटन रूज”
  • Mazanderani: “بتن‌روژ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Mirandese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باطون روج”
  • Navajo: “Łichííʼ Sitání”
  • Newari: “बेटन रु”
  • Newari: “ब्यातन रुज, लुइजियाना”
  • Newari: “ब्यातन रुज”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baton Rouge”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baton Rouge”
  • Norwegian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Novial: “Baton Rouge”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baston Roge”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baton Rouge (Loïsiana)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baton Rouge”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rēadsticburg”
  • Oromo: “Baton Rouge”
  • Ossetian: “Батон-Руж”
  • Pali: “बेटन रु”
  • Pampanga: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Pampanga: “Baton Rouge”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਟਨ ਰੂਜ”
  • Persian: “باتون‌روژ، لوئیزیانا”
  • Persian: “باتون‌روِژ”
  • Persian: “بتن‌روژ”
  • Piemontese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Polish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Portuguese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Pushto: “بیټن روج”
  • Quechua: “Baton Rouge”
  • Romanian: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Romanian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Russian: “Батон-Руж”
  • Samogitian: “Baton Ružos”
  • Sanskrit: “बेटन रूज”
  • Sanskrit: “बेटन् रु”
  • Sardinian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Scots: “Baton Rouge”
  • Serbian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Serbian: “Батон Руж”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Sicilian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Silesian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Sinhala: “බේටන් රෝග්”
  • Slovak: “Baton Rouge”
  • Slovenian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Somali: “Baton Rouge”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باتون‌روژ، لوئیزیانا”
  • Spanish: “Bastón Rojo”
  • Spanish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Baton Rouge”
  • Swahili: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Swahili: “Baton Rouge”
  • Swedish: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Swedish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Tagalog: “Baton Rouge”
  • Tajik: “Батон-Руж”
  • Talysh: “Baton-Ruž”
  • Tamil: “பாடன் ரூஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Батон-Руж”
  • Tatar: “Бәтен-Руж”
  • Telugu: “బ్యాటన్ రూజ్”
  • Thai: “แบตันรูช”
  • Tumbuka: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Tumbuka: “Baton Rouge”
  • Turkish: “Baton Rouge, Luisiana”
  • Turkish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Ukrainian: “Батон-Руж, Луїзіана”
  • Ukrainian: “Батон-Руж”
  • Urdu: “بیٹون روج، لوزیانا”
  • Urdu: “بیٹون روج”
  • Uzbek: “Baton Ruj”
  • Venetian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Vietnamese: “Ba-tông Ru-giơ”
  • Vietnamese: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Vietnamese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Volapük: “Baton Rouge”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baton Rouge”
  • Welsh: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Welsh: “Baton Rouge”
  • Western Frisian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Western Mari: “Батон-Руж”
  • Western Panjabi: “باٹن روگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴吞鲁日(路易斯安那州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴吞鲁日”
  • Yoruba: “Baton Rouge”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴頓魯治”

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