Decorah

Decorah is the largest city in and the county seat of , , United States. The population was 7,587 at the time of the 2020 census. Decorah is the home of Luther College, a private liberal arts college.
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  • Type: Town with 8,080 residents
  • Description: city in and the county seat of Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: “Decorah, IA”, “Decorah, Iowa”, “Деcораҳ”, “デコラ (アイオワ州)”, and “迪科拉 (愛荷華州)”
  • Postal code: 52101

Places of Interest

Highlights: Decorah Public Library.

Library
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Decorah

Latitude
43.3042° or 43° 18′ 15″ north
Longitude
-91.7859° or 91° 47′ 9″ west
Population
8,080
Elevation
879 feet (268 metres)
IATA airport code
DEH
Open location code
86MC8637+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151540839
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4853608
Wiki­data ID
Q1781710
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Decorah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ديكوراه”
  • Basque: “Decorah”
  • Catalan: “Decorah”
  • Cebuano: “Decorah”
  • Chechen: “Декора”
  • Chinese: “迪科拉 (艾奧瓦州)”
  • Chinese: “迪科拉”
  • Czech: “Decorah”
  • Danish: “Decorah”
  • Dutch: “Decorah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديكوراه”
  • French: “Decorah”
  • German: “Decorah”
  • Gilaki: “دکوراه (آیؤوا)”
  • Gilaki: “دکوراه”
  • Greek: “Ντεκόρα”
  • Haitian: “Decorah, Iowa”
  • Haitian: “Decorah”
  • Hungarian: “Decorah”
  • Ido: “Decorah, Iowa”
  • Ido: “Decorah”
  • Irish: “Decorah”
  • Italian: “Decorah”
  • Japanese: “ディコーラ”
  • Kazakh: “Dékorax”
  • Kazakh: “Дэкорах”
  • Kazakh: “دەكوراح”
  • Kirghiz: “Дэкорах”
  • Korean: “디코라”
  • Ladin: “Decorah”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Decorah”
  • Malagasy: “Decorah, Iowa”
  • Malagasy: “Decorah”
  • Mazanderani: “دکورا (آیووا)”
  • Mazanderani: “دکورا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Decorah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Decorah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Decorah”
  • Norwegian: “Decorah”
  • Persian: “دکورا”
  • Persian: “دکوراه، آیووا”
  • Persian: “دکوراه”
  • Polish: “Decorah”
  • Portuguese: “Decorah”
  • Russian: “Декора”
  • Russian: “Дэкорах”
  • Serbian: “Decorah”
  • Serbian: “Дикора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Decorah, Iowa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Decorah”
  • Slovak: “Decorah”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دکوراه، ایووا”
  • Spanish: “Decorah”
  • Swedish: “Decorah”
  • Tatar: “Декора”
  • Turkish: “Decorah, Iowa”
  • Turkish: “Decorah”
  • Ukrainian: “Декора”
  • Urdu: “ڈیکورا، آئیووا”
  • Urdu: “ڈیکورا”
  • Uzbek: “Decorah”
  • Vietnamese: “Decorah, Iowa”
  • Vietnamese: “Decorah”
  • Volapük: “Decorah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Decorah, Iowa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Decorah”
  • Welsh: “Decorah, Iowa”
  • Welsh: “Decorah”

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