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Canton

Canton is a mid-sized city in , . It is best known as the birthplace of professional American football, since the Canton Bulldogs were the first professional football team.
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  • Type: City with 70,400 residents
  • Description: city in Stark County, Ohio, United States
  • Also known as: “Canton, OH” and “Canton, Ohio”
  • Postal codes: 44701-44711, 44714, 44718, 44721, 44735, 44750, 44767, and 44799

Places of Interest

Highlights include First Ladies National Historic Site and Canton Museum of Art.

Museum
is a United States National Historic Site located in Canton, Ohio. During her residency in Washington, D.C. Mary Regula, wife of Ohio representative Ralph Regula, spoke regularly about the nation's first ladies.

Museum
The , founded in 1935, is a community arts organization designed to encourage and promote the fine arts in Canton, Ohio. The museum’s objective is “to provide a permanent museum for the collecting and preservation of art objects.” Operating under this broad mandate, the museum began to purchase the work of local and regional artists.

Stadium
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The is a multi-purpose arena located in Canton, Ohio, United States. Built in 1951, previous sports teams that have played at the center include the Canton Legends indoor football team, Canton Invaders indoor soccer team, Ohio Aviators of the American Basketball Association, and the Canton Charge of the NBA G League.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waco.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in central Canton Township, , , . It lies along State Route 43 just southeast of the Canton city line.

Canton

Latitude
40.7985° or 40° 47′ 55″ north
Longitude
-81.375° or 81° 22′ 30″ west
Population
70,400
Elevation
1,060 feet (323 metres)
Open location code
86GWQJXG+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153829615
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5149222
Wiki­data ID
Q491239
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Canton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كانتون”
  • Armenian: “Կանտոն (Օհայո)”
  • Armenian: “Կանտոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanton”
  • Basque: “Canton”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টন, ওহাইও”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টন”
  • Breton: “Canton”
  • Bulgarian: “Кантън”
  • Catalan: “Canton”
  • Cebuano: “Canton (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Ohio)”
  • Cebuano: “Canton”
  • Chechen: “Кантон”
  • Chinese: “Canton”
  • Chinese: “坎頓”
  • Chinese: “坎顿”
  • Czech: “Canton”
  • Danish: “Canton”
  • Dutch: “Canton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانتون”
  • Finnish: “Canton”
  • French: “Canton”
  • Galician: “Canton”
  • German: “Canton”
  • Gilaki: “کنتن”
  • Greek: “Κάντον”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ટન”
  • Haitian: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Haitian: “Canton”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון”
  • Hindi: “कैंटन”
  • Hungarian: “Canton”
  • Ido: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Ido: “Canton”
  • Indonesian: “Canton”
  • Irish: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Irish: “Canton”
  • Italian: “Canton”
  • Japanese: “カントン”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಂಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кантон”
  • Kirghiz: “Кантон”
  • Korean: “캔턴”
  • Korean: “캔튼”
  • Ladin: “Canton”
  • Latvian: “Kantona”
  • Lithuanian: “Kantonas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Canton”
  • Malagasy: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Malagasy: “Canton”
  • Malay: “Canton”
  • Marathi: “केंटन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Canton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canton”
  • Norwegian: “Canton”
  • Persian: “کانتون”
  • Persian: “کنتون”
  • Polish: “Canton”
  • Portuguese: “Canton”
  • Romanian: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Romanian: “Canton”
  • Russian: “Кантон (город США)”
  • Russian: “Кантон (Огайо)”
  • Russian: “Кантон”
  • Russian: “Кэнтон”
  • Scots: “Canton”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Canton”
  • Serbian: “Кантон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Canton”
  • Silesian: “Canton”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Canton”
  • Slovenian: “Canton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانتون، اوهایو”
  • Spanish: “Canton (Ohio)”
  • Spanish: “Canton”
  • Swedish: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Swedish: “Canton”
  • Tagalog: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Tagalog: “Canton”
  • Tamil: “கண்டோன்”
  • Tatar: “Кантон (Огайо)”
  • Tatar: “Кантон”
  • Telugu: “క్యాన్టన్”
  • Thai: “แคนตัน”
  • Turkish: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Turkish: “Canton”
  • Ukrainian: “Кантон”
  • Urdu: “کینٹن، اوہائیو”
  • Urdu: “کینٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Canton”
  • Uzbek: “Cантон”
  • Vietnamese: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Vietnamese: “Canton”
  • Volapük: “Canton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Canton, Ohio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Canton”
  • Welsh: “Canton, Ohio”
  • Welsh: “Canton”
  • “Canton”

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