Maryland
Capital Region
Prince George’s County

Bowie

Bowie is a city in , U.S. Per the 2020 census, the population was 58,329. Bowie has grown from a small railroad stop to the largest municipality in Prince George's County; it is also the fifth most populous city and third largest city by area in the U.S. state of Maryland.
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  • Type: City with 58,300 residents
  • Description: city in Prince George’s County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “Bowie, Maryland” and “Bowie, MD”
  • Historically known as: “Bowie Station”, “Huntington City”, and “Huntington Station”
  • Postal codes: 20715-20721

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bowie Railroad Buildings and Bowie State station.

Museum
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
The comprise three small frame structures at the former Bowie train station, located at the junction of what is now the Northeast Corridor and the Pope's Creek Subdivision in the town center of Bowie, Maryland.

Railway station
Photo: Woogers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a regional rail station on the Northeast Corridor, located adjacent to the campus of Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland. It is served by MARC Penn Line commuter rail trains.

was an American horse racing track located just outside the city limits of Bowie, Maryland. It operated from 1914 through 1985. The facility is now a training center for Thoroughbred racehorses.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenn Dale and Fairwood.

Village
Photo: Firsttoscore, Public domain.
is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 14,698 at the 2020 census.

Village
is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 7,983 at the 2020 census.

Neighborhood
was a settlement in , , United States, dating from colonial times. has been subsumed by the city of Bowie.

Bowie

Latitude
39.0081° or 39° 0′ 29″ north
Longitude
-76.7798° or 76° 46′ 47″ west
Population
58,300
Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BQA
Open location code
87F5265C+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157630702
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4349159
Wiki­data ID
Q755142
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bowie” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باوي”
  • Armenian: “Բոուի”
  • Basque: “Bowie”
  • Breton: “Bowie”
  • Catalan: “Bowie”
  • Cebuano: “Bowie”
  • Chechen: “Бови (Мэриленд)”
  • Chechen: “Бови”
  • Chinese: “Bowie”
  • Chinese: “布依”
  • Chinese: “鲍伊”
  • Cornish: “Bowie, Tir Maria”
  • Cornish: “Bowie”
  • Dagbani: “Bowie”
  • Dutch: “Bowie”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باوى”
  • Finnish: “Bowie”
  • French: “Bowie”
  • German: “Bowie”
  • Gilaki: “بؤئي”
  • Hebrew: “בואי, מרילנד”
  • Hebrew: “בואי”
  • Hungarian: “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Indonesian: “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Indonesian: “Bowie”
  • Irish: “Bowie”
  • Italian: “Bowie”
  • Japanese: “ブーイ”
  • Kazakh: “Bovï”
  • Kazakh: “Бови”
  • Kazakh: “بوۆىي”
  • Kirghiz: “Бови”
  • Ladin: “Bowie”
  • Latin: “Bowie”
  • Malagasy: “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Malagasy: “Bowie”
  • Mazanderani: “بووی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bowie”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bowie”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bowie”
  • Norwegian: “Bowie”
  • Persian: “بووی، مریلند”
  • Persian: “بووی”
  • Polish: “Bowie”
  • Portuguese: “Bowie”
  • Russian: “Боуи”
  • Russian: “Буи”
  • Serbian: “Буи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bowie”
  • Slovenian: “Bowie”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بووی، مریلند”
  • Spanish: “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Spanish: “Bowie”
  • Swedish: “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Swedish: “Bowie”
  • Tatar: “Бови (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Бови”
  • Turkish: “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Turkish: “Bowie”
  • Ukrainian: “Бові”
  • Urdu: “بووئی، میری لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Bowie”
  • Uzbek: “Боwие”
  • Volapük: “Bowie”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bowie”
  • Welsh: “Bowie, Maryland”
  • Welsh: “Bowie”

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