Defiance

Defiance is a city in , United States, and its county seat. The population was 17,066 at the 2020 census. It is located at the confluence of the Auglaize and rivers about 55 miles southwest of and 47 miles northeast of , in Ohio's northwestern corner.
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  • Type: Town with 17,100 residents
  • Description: city in and the county seat of Defiance County, Ohio, United States
  • Also known as: “Defiance, OH”, “Defiance, Ohio”, “Fort Defiance”, and “Winchester”
  • Postal code: 43512

Places of Interest

Highlights include Defiance County Courthouse and Defiance Public Library.

Courthouse
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The is located at 221 Clinton Street in Defiance, , United States.

Library
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The is a historic Carnegie library located in Defiance, Ohio. It was built in 1904 with funds from Andrew Carnegie and was designed by architects Wing & Mahurin.

Hospital
Mercy Health, formerly Catholic Health Partners, is a Catholic health care system with locations in and . -based Mercy Health operates more than 250 healthcare organizations in Ohio and Kentucky.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brunersburg.

Hamlet
is a census-designated place in , . As of the 2020 census, had a population of 314.

Defiance

Latitude
41.2868° or 41° 17′ 12″ north
Longitude
-84.3621° or 84° 21′ 43″ west
Population
17,100
Elevation
676 feet (206 metres)
IATA airport code
DFI
United Nations Location Code
US DFI
Open location code
86HQ7JPQ+P5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153874971
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5151861
Wiki­data ID
Q651108
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Defiance” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ديفايانس، أوهايو”
  • Arabic: “ديفايانس”
  • Arabic: “ديفاينس”
  • Basque: “Defiance”
  • Belarusian: “Дэфаянс (Агая)”
  • Belarusian: “Дэфаянс”
  • Catalan: “Defiance”
  • Cebuano: “Defiance”
  • Chechen: “Дифаэнс”
  • Chinese: “Defiance”
  • Chinese: “迪法恩斯”
  • Czech: “Defiance”
  • Dagbani: “Defiance”
  • Danish: “Defiance”
  • Dutch: “Defiance”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديفاينس”
  • French: “Defiance”
  • German: “Au Glaize”
  • German: “Defiance”
  • German: “Ensawacosa”
  • German: “Fort Miamis”
  • German: “Fort Winchester”
  • German: “Grand Glaize”
  • German: “Miami Fort”
  • German: “Miamis Fort”
  • German: “Tuendawie”
  • German: “Twendiawie”
  • Gilaki: “دفیانس (اؤهایؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “دفیانس”
  • Haitian: “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Haitian: “Defiance”
  • Hungarian: “Defiance”
  • Ido: “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Ido: “Defiance”
  • Irish: “Defiance”
  • Italian: “Defiance”
  • Japanese: “ディファイアンス”
  • Japanese: “デファイアンス (オハイオ州)”
  • Kazakh: “Defïans”
  • Kazakh: “Дефианс”
  • Kazakh: “دەفىيانس”
  • Kirghiz: “Дефианс”
  • Korean: “디파이언스”
  • Ladin: “Defiance”
  • Luxembourgish: “Defiance”
  • Malagasy: “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Malagasy: “Defiance”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Defiance”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Defiance”
  • Norwegian: “Defiance”
  • Persian: “دفیانس، اوهایو”
  • Persian: “دفیانس”
  • Polish: “Defiance”
  • Portuguese: “Defiance”
  • Russian: “Дефайанс (Огайо)”
  • Russian: “Дефайанс”
  • Russian: “Дефианс”
  • Serbian: “Дефајанс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Defiance”
  • Slovak: “Defiance”
  • Slovenian: “Defiance”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دفیانس، اوهایو”
  • Spanish: “Defiance (Ohio)”
  • Spanish: “Defiance”
  • Swedish: “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Swedish: “Defiance”
  • Tatar: “Дифаэнс (Огайо)”
  • Tatar: “Дифаэнс”
  • Turkish: “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Turkish: “Defiance”
  • Ukrainian: “Діфаєнс”
  • Urdu: “ڈیفائنس، اوہائیو”
  • Uzbek: “Defiance”
  • Uzbek: “Дефианcе”
  • Vietnamese: “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Vietnamese: “Defiance”
  • Volapük: “Defiance”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Defiance”
  • Welsh: “Defiance, Ohio”
  • Welsh: “Defiance”
  • “Defiance”

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