NW Ohio
Wood
City of Bowling Green

Bowling Green

Bowling Green is a small college town in about 30 mi south of the border. Surrounded by miles of flat farmland, Bowling Green is best known for its public university, Bowling Green State University, and its national tractor pull event.
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  • Type: Town with 29,700 residents
  • Description: city in Ohio, United States
  • Also known as: “Bee-Gee”, “BG”, “Bowling Green, OH”, and “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Postal codes: 43402 and 43403

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wood County District Public Library and Kreischer Quadrangle.

Library
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Community center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a community center.

Courthouse
Photo: Calvin Beale, Public domain.
The , located in Bowling Green, , , is 's third courthouse. It was built after citizens decided to move the county seat from to Bowling Green.

Bowling Green

Latitude
41.3748° or 41° 22′ 29″ north
Longitude
-83.6513° or 83° 39′ 5″ west
Population
29,700
Elevation
696 feet (212 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BWO
Open location code
86HR98FX+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153906854
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5147968
Wiki­data ID
Q895459
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bowling Green” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بولينغ غرين (أوهايو)”
  • Arabic: “بولينغ غرين، أوهايو”
  • Arabic: “بولينغ غرين”
  • Armenian: “Բոուլինգ Գրին”
  • Basque: “Bowling Green”
  • Belarusian: “Боўлінг-Грын”
  • Catalan: “Bowling Green”
  • Cebuano: “Bowling Green (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Ohio)”
  • Cebuano: “Bowling Green”
  • Chechen: “Боулинг-Грин”
  • Chinese: “Bowling Green”
  • Chinese: “博靈格林 (俄亥俄州)”
  • Chinese: “鮑靈格林”
  • Chinese: “鲍林格林”
  • Chinese: “鲍灵格林”
  • Danish: “Bowling Green”
  • Dutch: “Bowling Green”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولينج جرين”
  • Finnish: “Bowling Green”
  • French: “Bowling Green”
  • German: “Bowling Green”
  • Gilaki: “بولینگ گرین”
  • Haitian: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Haitian: “Bowling Green”
  • Hebrew: “באולינג גרין”
  • Hungarian: “Bowling Green”
  • Ido: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Ido: “Bowling Green”
  • Irish: “Bowling Green”
  • Italian: “Bowling Green”
  • Japanese: “ボーリング・グリーン”
  • Japanese: “ボーリンググリーン”
  • Japanese: “ボウリンググリーン (オハイオ州)”
  • Kazakh: “Боулинг Грин”
  • Kirghiz: “Боулинг Грин”
  • Korean: “볼링그린 (오하이오 주)”
  • Korean: “볼링그린”
  • Ladin: “Bowling Green”
  • Malagasy: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Malagasy: “Bowling Green”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bowling Green”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bowling Green”
  • Norwegian: “Bowling Green”
  • Persian: “بولینگ گرین”
  • Persian: “بوولینگ گرین، اوهایو”
  • Persian: “بوولینگ گرین”
  • Polish: “Bowling Green”
  • Portuguese: “Bowling Green”
  • Russian: “Боулинг-Грин”
  • Serbian: “Боулинг Грин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bowling Green”
  • Slovenian: “Bowling Green”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوولینق قرین، اوهایو”
  • Spanish: “Bowling Green (Ohio)”
  • Spanish: “Bowling Green”
  • Swedish: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Swedish: “Bowling Green”
  • Tatar: “Боулинг-Грин (Огайо)”
  • Tatar: “Боулинг-Грин”
  • Turkish: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Turkish: “Bowling Green”
  • Ukrainian: “Боулінг-Грін”
  • Urdu: “باولنگ گرین، اوہائیو”
  • Urdu: “باولنگ گرین”
  • Uzbek: “Bowling Green, OH”
  • Uzbek: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Uzbek: “Bowling Green”
  • Vietnamese: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Vietnamese: “Bowling Green”
  • Volapük: “Bowling Green (OH)”
  • Volapük: “Bowling Green, OH”
  • Volapük: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Volapük: “Bowling Green”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bowling Green”
  • Welsh: “Bowling Green, Ohio”
  • Welsh: “Bowling Green”

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