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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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  • Type: City with 227,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Louisiana, United States, and seat of East Baton Rouge Parish
  • Also known as: “Bâton Rouge”, “Baton Rouge, LA”, “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”, “Bâton-Rouge”, “Dironbourg”, and “New Richmond”
  • Postal codes: 70801-70823, 70825-70827, 70831, 70833, 70835-70837, 70874, 70879, 70884, 70891-70896, and 70898
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Louisiana State Capitol and USS Kidd.

Public building
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The is the seat of government for the U.S. state of and is located in downtown Baton Rouge. The capitol houses the chambers for the Louisiana State Legislature, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as the office of the Governor of Louisiana.

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, a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Museum
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The Capitol Park Museum is a branch of the Louisiana State Museum located at 660 N. 4th Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There are two permanent exhibits on the history and culture of Louisiana.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Port Allen and Downtown Baton Rouge Historic District.

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is a town in the region of Louisiana that sits directly across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge and is the seat of West Baton Rouge Parish. It takes on a rather gritty and highly industrial character but has a few attractions.

Neighborhood
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is a historic district in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, located along 3rd Street, from Main Street to North Boulevard.

Neighborhood
is a historic district anchored by Road in Baton Rouge, the capital city of the U.S. state of . It is well known for its annual Mardi Gras parade, which is the largest in Baton Rouge.

Baton Rouge

Latitude
30.4494° or 30° 26′ 58″ north
Longitude
-91.187° or 91° 11′ 13″ west
Population
227,000
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
IATA airport code
BTR
United Nations Location Code
US BTR
Open location code
862CCRX7+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151904088
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4315588
Wiki­data ID
Q28218
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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”
  • Arabic: “باتون روج”
  • Aragonese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Armenian: “Բաթոն Ռուժ”
  • Asturian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Asturian: “Bâton-Rouge”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baton Ruj”
  • 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”
  • Cajun French: “Bâton-Rouge”
  • Catalan: “Baton Rouge”
  • Cebuano: “Baton Rouge”
  • Central Kurdish: “باتن ڕووگ”
  • Chechen: “Батон-Руж”
  • Chinese: “Baton Rouge”
  • 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”
  • Dutch: “Bâton Rouge”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باتون روچ”
  • Esperanto: “Baton Rouge”
  • Esperanto: “Baton-Ruzo”
  • Estonian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Faroese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Finnish: “Baton Rouge”
  • French: “Baton Rouge”
  • French: “Bâton Rouge”
  • French: “Bâton-Rouge”
  • Galician: “Baton Rouge, Luisiana”
  • Galician: “Baton Rouge”
  • Georgian: “ბატონ-რუჟი”
  • German: “Baton Rouge (Louisiana)”
  • German: “Baton Rouge”
  • German: “Bâton-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”
  • Hebrew: “באטון רוג‘”
  • Hebrew: “באטון רוז‘”
  • Hebrew: “באטון רוז’”
  • Hebrew: “באטון רוז”
  • 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”
  • Italian: “Bâton Rouge”
  • Italian: “Bâton-Rouge”
  • Japanese: “バトン・ルージュ (ルイジアナ)”
  • Japanese: “バトン・ルージュ”
  • Japanese: “バトンルージュ (ルイジアナ)”
  • Japanese: “バトンルージュ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇಟನ್ ರೂಜ್”
  • 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 रुज”
  • 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”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bâton-Rouge”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rēadsticburg”
  • Ossetian: “Батон-Руж”
  • Pali: “बेटन रु”
  • Pampanga: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Pampanga: “Baton Rouge”
  • Persian: “باتون روژ”
  • Persian: “باتون روِژ”
  • Persian: “باتون‌روژ، لوئیزیانا”
  • Persian: “باتون‌روژ”
  • Persian: “باتون‌روِژ”
  • Persian: “بتن‌روژ”
  • Piemontese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Polish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Portuguese: “Baton Rouge”
  • Quechua: “Baton Rouge”
  • Romanian: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Romanian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Russian: “Батон Руж”
  • Russian: “Батон-Руж”
  • Samogitian: “Baton Ružos”
  • Sanskrit: “बेटन रूज”
  • Sanskrit: “बेटन् रु”
  • Sardinian: “Baton Rouge”
  • Scots: “Baton Rouge”
  • Scots: “Bâton Rouge”
  • Scots: “Bâton-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”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باتون‌روژ، لوئیزیانا”
  • Spanish: “Bastón Rojo”
  • Spanish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Spanish: “Bâton-Rouge”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Baton Rouge”
  • Swahili: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Swahili: “Baton Rouge”
  • Swedish: “Baton Rouge, Louisiana”
  • Swedish: “Baton Rouge”
  • Tagalog: “Baton Rouge”
  • Talysh: “Baton-Ruž”
  • Tamil: “பாடன் ரூஜ்”
  • 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: “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”
  • “Baton Rouge”
  • “Baton Ružos”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Baton Rouge”. Photo: getmahesh, CC BY-SA 3.0.