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Des Moines

Des Moines, capital of , is in the western region of the American . Des Moines is the largest city in Iowa and the annual site of the Iowa State Fair.
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  • Type: City with 214,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: “Des Moines, IA” and “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Postal codes: 50301-50321, 50328-50336, 50339, 50340, 50359-50364, 50367-50369, 50380, 50381, 50391-50396, 50936, 50940, 50947, 50950, 50980, and 50981
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Iowa State Capitol and Casey’s Center.

Government building
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The , commonly called the Iowa Statehouse, is in 's capital city, Des Moines. As the seat of the Iowa General Assembly, the building houses the Iowa Senate, Iowa House of Representatives, the Office of the Governor, and the Offices of the Attorney General, Auditor, Treasurer, and Secretary of State.

Sports venue
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The Casey's Center is a multi-purpose arena in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Part of the Iowa Events Center, the arena opened on July 12, 2005, at a cost of $117 million.

Garden
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The is a 12-acre botanical garden located near , United States, on the east bank of the and north of I-235.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Des Moines and Sherman Hill Historic District.

Neighborhood
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is the central business district of Des Moines, Iowa and the Greater Des Moines Metropolitan Area. is defined by the City of Des Moines as located between the to the east, the to the south, Center Street to the north, and 18th and 15th Streets to the west.

Neighborhood
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The is located in Des Moines, Iowa, . It is one of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Des Moines. Single-family houses were constructed beginning around 1880 and multi-family dwellings were built between 1900 and 1920.

Neighborhood
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Historic is a commercial and residential neighborhood in central Des Moines, Iowa, United States, directly east of the Downtown Des Moines area.

Des Moines

Latitude
41.5869° or 41° 35′ 13″ north
Longitude
-93.6249° or 93° 37′ 30″ west
Population
214,000
Elevation
873 feet (266 metres)
Inception
1843
IATA airport code
DSM
United Nations Location Code
US DSM
Open location code
86H8H9PG+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 125027380
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4853828
Wiki­data ID
Q39709
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Des Moines” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Des Moines”
  • Albanian: “Des Moines”
  • Amharic: “ደሞይን”
  • Arabic: “دس موينيس، آيوا”
  • Arabic: “ده موين، أيوا”
  • Arabic: “دي موان، آيوا”
  • Arabic: “دي موين”
  • Aragonese: “Des Moines”
  • Armenian: “Դե Մոյն”
  • Asturian: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Asturian: “Des Moines”
  • Azerbaijani: “De-moyn”
  • Azerbaijani: “De-Moyn”
  • Balinese: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Bashkir: “Де-Мойн”
  • Basque: “Des Moines”
  • Belarusian: “Дэ-Мойн”
  • Bengali: “ডি মোয়েন, আইওয়া”
  • Bengali: “ডি মোয়েন”
  • Bislama: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Bislama: “Des Moines”
  • Bosnian: “Des Moines”
  • Breton: “Des Moines,”
  • Breton: “Des Moines”
  • Bulgarian: “Де Мойн”
  • Bulgarian: “ДеМойн”
  • Catalan: “Des Moines”
  • Cebuano: “Des Moines”
  • Central Kurdish: “دێس مۆینێس”
  • Chechen: “Де-Мойн”
  • Chinese: “Des Moines”
  • Chinese: “得梅因 / 狄蒙因 / 迪莫因”
  • Chinese: “得梅因”
  • Chinese: “德梅因”
  • Chinese: “狄蒙”
  • Chinese: “狄蒙因”
  • Chinese: “第蒙”
  • Chinese: “莫恩”
  • Chinese: “迪莫伊”
  • Chinese: “迪莫因”
  • Cornish: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Cornish: “Des Moines”
  • Corsican: “Des Moines”
  • Crimean Tatar: “De Moyn”
  • Croatian: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Croatian: “Des Moines”
  • Czech: “Des Moines”
  • Dagbani: “Des Moines”
  • Danish: “Des Moines, IA”
  • Danish: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Danish: “Des Moines”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Des Moines”
  • Dutch: “Des Moines”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دى موين”
  • Esperanto: “De-Moinso”
  • Esperanto: “Des Moines”
  • Estonian: “Des Moines”
  • Extremaduran: “Des Moines”
  • Faroese: “Des Moines”
  • Finnish: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Finnish: “Des Moines”
  • French: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • French: “Des Moines”
  • Galician: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Galician: “Des Moines”
  • Georgian: “დე-მოინი”
  • German: “Des Moines”
  • Gilaki: “دس مؤینس (آیؤوا)”
  • Gilaki: “دس مؤینس”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌴 𐌼𐍅𐌰𐌽”
  • Greek: “Ντε Μόιν”
  • Greek: “Ντι Μόιν, Άιοβα”
  • Greek: “Ντι Μόιν”
  • Gujarati: “દેસ મોઇન્સ”
  • Haitian: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Haitian: “Des Moines”
  • Hebrew: “דה מוין”
  • Hindi: “डी मोइन”
  • Hindi: “डेस मोइनेस”
  • Hungarian: “Des Moines”
  • Icelandic: “Des Moines”
  • Ido: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Ido: “Des Moines”
  • Iloko: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Iloko: “Des Moines”
  • Indonesian: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Indonesian: “Des Moines”
  • Interlingua: “Des Moines”
  • Interlingue: “Des Moines”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑏ ᒧᐃᓐ”
  • Irish: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Irish: “Des Moines”
  • Italian: “Des Moines”
  • Japanese: “デ・モイン (アイオワ州)”
  • Japanese: “デ・モイン”
  • Japanese: “デモイン (アイオワ州)”
  • Japanese: “デモイン”
  • Kannada: “ಡೆಸ್ ಮೋಯಿನ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Де Мойн”
  • Kazakh: “Дэс Мойнс”
  • Kirghiz: “Де-Мойн”
  • Kirghiz: “Дэс Мойнс”
  • Komering: “Des Moines”
  • Korean: “데스 모인스”
  • Korean: “데스모인스”
  • Korean: “디모인”
  • Kurdish: “Des Moines”
  • Ladin: “Des Moines”
  • Latin: “Monachopolis”
  • Latvian: “Demoina”
  • Latvian: “Des Moines”
  • Ligurian: “Des Moines”
  • Lithuanian: “De Moinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Di Moinas”
  • Lombard: “Des Moines”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Des Moines”
  • Macedonian: “Де Мојн”
  • Malagasy: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Malagasy: “Des Moines”
  • Malay: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Malay: “Des Moines”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെസ് മോയിൻസ്, ഐയവ”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെസ് മോയിൻസ്”
  • Marathi: “दे मॉईन”
  • Mazanderani: “دس موینس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Des Moines”
  • Mingrelian: “დე-მოინი”
  • Mirandese: “Des Moines”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “دي موان”
  • Navajo: “Haltsotah Ałhidiilíinii”
  • Newari: “दि मोइन, आयोवा”
  • Newari: “दि मोइन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Des Moines”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Des Moines”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Des Moines”
  • Norwegian: “Des Moines”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Des Moines”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mūnecasburg”
  • Ossetian: “Де-Мойн”
  • Pali: “डेस् म्वाने”
  • Pampanga: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Pampanga: “Des Moines”
  • Persian: “دموین، آیووا”
  • Persian: “دموین”
  • Persian: “دی موین، ایووا”
  • Persian: “دی موین”
  • Persian: “دی‌موین”
  • Piemontese: “Des Moines”
  • Polish: “Des Moines”
  • Portuguese: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Portuguese: “Des Moines”
  • Quechua: “Des Moines”
  • Romanian: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Romanian: “Des Moines”
  • Russian: “Де-Мойн”
  • Russian: “Форт Де-Мойн”
  • Samogitian: “De Moins”
  • Sanskrit: “डे माय्ने”
  • Sardinian: “Des Moines”
  • Scots: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Scots: “Des Moines”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Des Moines”
  • Serbian: “Des Moines”
  • Serbian: “Де Мојн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Des Moines”
  • Sicilian: “Des Moines”
  • Silesian: “Des Moines”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙස් මොයින්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Des Moines”
  • Slovenian: “Des Moines”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دز موینز، ایووا”
  • Spanish: “Des Moines (Iowa)”
  • Spanish: “Des Moines”
  • Swahili: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Swahili: “Des Moines”
  • Swedish: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Swedish: “Des Moines”
  • Tagalog: “Des Moines”
  • Talysh: “De-Mojn”
  • Talysh: “De-Moyn”
  • Tamil: “டி மொயின்”
  • Tamil: “டெஸ் மொய்ன்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Де-Мойн”
  • Telugu: “డెస్ మోయీనెస్”
  • Thai: “ดิมอยน์”
  • Thai: “ดีมอยน์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Des Moines”
  • Turkish: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Turkish: “Des Moines”
  • Ukrainian: “Де-Мойн”
  • Urdu: “دی موین، آئیووا”
  • Urdu: “دی موین”
  • Uzbek: “Des Moines”
  • Venetian: “Des Moines”
  • Veps: “De Moin”
  • Vietnamese: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Vietnamese: “Des Moines”
  • Volapük: “Des Moines”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Des Moines”
  • Welsh: “Des Moines, Iowa”
  • Welsh: “Des Moines”
  • Western Frisian: “Des Moines”
  • Western Mari: “Де-Мойн”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈس موئنس”
  • Wu Chinese: “得梅因”
  • Yiddish: “דע מוין”
  • Yue Chinese: “德梅因”
  • “De Moins”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Des Moines”. Photo: Stephen Matthew Milligan, CC BY-SA 3.0.