Defiance
Defiance is a city in Defiance County, Ohio, 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 Maumee rivers about 55 miles southwest of Toledo and 47 miles northeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana, in Ohio's northwestern corner.
- Type: Town with 17,100 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of Defiance County, Ohio, United States
- Also known as: “Au Glaize”, “Defiance (Ohio)”, “Defiance, OH”, “Defiance, Ohio”, “Ensawacosa”, “Fort Defiance”, “Fort Miamis”, “Fort Winchester”, “Grand Glaize”, “Miami Fort”, “Miamis Fort”, “Tuendawie”, “Twendiawie”, “Winchester”, “Дефайанс (Огайо)”, “Дефианcе”, “ديفايانس، أوهايو”, and “デファイアンス (オハイオ州)”
- Postal code: 43512
Places of Interest
Highlights: Defiance County Courthouse and Defiance Public Library.
Defiance County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.Defiance Public Library
Library
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brunersburg.
Defiance
- Categories: city of Ohio, county seat, and locality
- Location: Defiance Township, Defiance, Northwest Ohio, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
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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
UN/LOCODE
US DFI
Open location code
86HQ7JPQ+P5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Defiance” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديفايانس”
- Arabic: “ديفاينس”
- Basque: “Defiance”
- Belarusian: “Дэфаянс (Агая)”
- Belarusian: “Дэфаянс”
- Catalan: “Defiance”
- Cebuano: “Defiance”
- Chechen: “Дифаэнс”
- Chinese: “迪法恩斯”
- Czech: “Defiance”
- Dagbani: “Defiance”
- Danish: “Defiance”
- Dutch: “Defiance”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديفاينس”
- French: “Defiance”
- German: “Defiance”
- 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”
- 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”
- Russian: “Дефианс”
- Serbian: “Дефајанс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Defiance”
- Slovak: “Defiance”
- Slovenian: “Defiance”
- South Azerbaijani: “دفیانس، اوهایو”
- Spanish: “Defiance”
- Swedish: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Swedish: “Defiance”
- Tatar: “Дифаэнс (Огайо)”
- Tatar: “Дифаэнс”
- Turkish: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Turkish: “Defiance”
- Ukrainian: “Діфаєнс”
- Urdu: “ڈیفائنس، اوہائیو”
- Uzbek: “Defiance”
- Vietnamese: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Vietnamese: “Defiance”
- Volapük: “Defiance”
- Waray (Philippines): “Defiance, Ohio”
- Waray (Philippines): “Defiance”
- Welsh: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Welsh: “Defiance”
- “Defiance”
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