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Bloomington

Bloomington is a city of 86,000 people in . Bloomington is home to the flagship campus of Indiana University and the IU Hoosiers. As it is a much larger city than the county seats of nearby counties, it serves as the de facto employment, service, and shopping center for several adjacent counties.
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  • Type: City with 69,200 residents
  • Description: county seat of Monroe County, Indiana, United States
  • Also known as: “Bloomington, IN” and “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Postal codes: 47401-47408

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eskenazi Museum of Art and Kirkwood Observatory.

Museum
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The Sidney and Lois at Indiana University is an art museum at Indiana University Bloomington. It was opened in 1941 as the Indiana University Museum of Art under the direction of Henry Radford Hope.

Observatory
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is an astronomical owned and operated by Indiana University. It is located in Bloomington, , United States. It is named for Daniel Kirkwood an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Indiana University who discovered the divisions of the asteroid belt known as the Kirkwood Gaps.

Library
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serves the 138,000 citizens of , through the Downtown Library in downtown Bloomington, the Ellettsville Branch, the Southwest Branch, and the Bookmobile.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arlington and Broadview.

Hamlet
Bloomington is a city in , United States, and its county seat. The population was 79,168 at the 2020 census. It is the seventh-most populous city in Indiana and the fourth-most populous outside the .

Hamlet
Bloomington is a city in , United States, and its county seat. The population was 79,168 at the 2020 census. It is the seventh-most populous city in Indiana and the fourth-most populous outside the .

Hamlet
Bloomington is a city in , United States, and its county seat. The population was 79,168 at the 2020 census. It is the seventh-most populous city in Indiana and the fourth-most populous outside the .

Bloomington

Latitude
39.167° or 39° 10′ 1″ north
Longitude
-86.5343° or 86° 32′ 3″ west
Population
69,200
Elevation
771 feet (235 metres)
IATA airport code
BMG
United Nations Location Code
US BMG
Open location code
86FM5F88+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153582776
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4254679
Wiki­data ID
Q490385
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bloomington” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلومنغتون، إنديانا”
  • Arabic: “بلومنغتون”
  • Armenian: “Բլումինգթոն (Ինդիանա)”
  • Armenian: “Բլումինգթոն”
  • Armenian: “Բլումինգտոն (Ինդիանա)”
  • Armenian: “Բլումինգտոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bluminqton”
  • Basque: “Bloomington”
  • Belarusian: “Блумінгтан”
  • Bengali: “ব্লুমিংটন, ইন্ডিয়ানা”
  • Bengali: “ব্লুমিংটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Блумингтън”
  • Catalan: “Bloomington”
  • Cebuano: “Bloomington”
  • Chechen: “Блумингтон”
  • Chinese: “布卢明顿”
  • Chinese: “布盧明頓”
  • Chinese: “布魯明頓”
  • Czech: “Bloomington”
  • Danish: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Danish: “Bloomington”
  • Dutch: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Dutch: “Bloomington”
  • Esperanto: “Bloomington”
  • Estonian: “Bloomington”
  • Faroese: “Bloomington”
  • Finnish: “Bloomington”
  • French: “Bloomington”
  • Galician: “Bloomington”
  • German: “Bloomington”
  • Gilaki: “بلۊمينگتن”
  • Greek: “Μπλούμινγκτον”
  • Haitian: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Haitian: “Bloomington”
  • Hebrew: “בלומינגטון”
  • Hindi: “ब्लूमिंगटन, इंडियाना”
  • Hindi: “ब्लूमिंगटन”
  • Hungarian: “Bloomington”
  • Ido: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Ido: “Bloomington”
  • Indonesian: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Indonesian: “Bloomington”
  • Interlingua: “Bloomington”
  • Irish: “Bloomington”
  • Italian: “Bloomington”
  • Japanese: “ブルーミントン”
  • Korean: “블루밍턴”
  • Ladin: “Bloomington”
  • Latin: “Bloomingtonia”
  • Latvian: “Bloomington”
  • Latvian: “Blūmingtona”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bloomington”
  • Malagasy: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Malagasy: “Bloomington”
  • Mazanderani: “بلومینگتون”
  • Mongolian: “Блүмингтон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bloomington”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bloomington”
  • Norwegian: “Bloomington”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲੂਮਿੰਗਟਨ, ਇੰਡੀਆਨਾ”
  • Persian: “بلومینگتون، ایندیانا”
  • Persian: “بلومینگتون”
  • Polish: “Bloomington”
  • Portuguese: “Bloomington”
  • Romanian: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Romanian: “Bloomington”
  • Russian: “Блумингтон”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱞᱳᱢᱤᱝᱴᱳᱱ”
  • Serbian: “Блумингтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bloomington”
  • Silesian: “Bloomington”
  • Slovak: “Bloomington”
  • Slovenian: “Bloomington”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلومینقتون، ایندیانا”
  • Spanish: “Bloomington (Indiana)”
  • Spanish: “Bloomington”
  • Swedish: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Swedish: “Bloomington”
  • Talysh: “Blumington”
  • Talysh: “Bluminqton(İndiana)”
  • Tamil: “புளூமிங்டன், இந்தியானா”
  • Tamil: “புளூமிங்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Блумингтон (Индиана)”
  • Tatar: “Блумингтон”
  • Turkish: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Turkish: “Bloomington”
  • Ukrainian: “Блумінгтон”
  • Urdu: “بلومنگٹن، انڈیانا”
  • Urdu: “بلومنگٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Bloomington”
  • Uzbek: “Блоомингтон”
  • Volapük: “Bloomington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bloomington”
  • Welsh: “Bloomington, Indiana”
  • Welsh: “Bloomington”
  • Western Armenian: “Պլումինկթոն”
  • Yue Chinese: “布盧明頓”

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