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Kent County

Dover

Dover is the capital of . It is in the central part of the state in Kent County, approximately midway between and . Dover is home to several historic sites and recreational areas are nearby.
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  • Type: City with 34,700 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Kent County, Delaware, United States, and capital city of Delaware
  • Also known as: “Dover, DE” and “Dover, Delaware”
  • Postal codes: 19901 and 19903-19906

Places of Interest

Highlights include Delaware Legislative Hall and Old State House.

Public building
Photo: Adavyd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the state capitol building of . Located in the state capital city of Dover on Legislative Avenue, it houses the chambers and offices of the Delaware General Assembly.

Museum
Photo: Niagara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Old Statehouse is a historic state capitol building located on The Green at Dover, . It was built between 1787 and 1792, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure in a Middle Georgian style.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Delaware Governor's Mansion, also known as Woodburn or Governor's House, is the official residence of the governor of Delaware and the governor's family.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kent Acres and Rodney Village.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,890 at the 2010 census.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,487 at the 2010 census.

Dover

Latitude
39.1582° or 39° 9′ 29″ north
Longitude
-75.5244° or 75° 31′ 28″ west
Population
34,700
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
IATA airport code
DOV
United Nations Location Code
US XEZ
Open location code
87F65F5G+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158576812
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4142290
Wiki­data ID
Q33518
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dover” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Afrikaans: “Dover”
  • Albanian: “Dover”
  • Arabic: “دوفر”
  • Aragonese: “Dover”
  • Armenian: “Դովեր”
  • Asturian: “Dover”
  • Basque: “Dover”
  • Belarusian: “Довер (Дэлавэр)”
  • Belarusian: “Довер”
  • Bengali: “ডোভার, ডেলাওয়্যার”
  • Bengali: “ডোভার”
  • Bislama: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Bislama: “Dover”
  • Bosnian: “Dover”
  • Breton: “Dover”
  • Bulgarian: “Доувър”
  • Catalan: “Dover”
  • Cebuano: “Dover”
  • Central Kurdish: “دۆڤەر”
  • Chechen: “Довер”
  • Chinese: “Dover”
  • Chinese: “多佛”
  • Cornish: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Cornish: “Dover”
  • Corsican: “Dover”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Dover”
  • Croatian: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Croatian: “Dover”
  • Czech: “Dover”
  • Dagbani: “Dover”
  • Danish: “Dover”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dover, Delaware”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dover”
  • Dutch: “Dover”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دوفر”
  • Esperanto: “Dover”
  • Esperanto: “Dovero”
  • Estonian: “Dover”
  • Extremaduran: “Dover”
  • Faroese: “Dover”
  • Finnish: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Finnish: “Dover”
  • French: “Dover”
  • Galician: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Galician: “Dover”
  • Georgian: “დოვერი”
  • German: “Dover, Delaware”
  • German: “Dover”
  • Gilaki: “دؤور (دلاویر)”
  • Gilaki: “دؤور”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐍉𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂, 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐍉𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂”
  • Greek: “Ντόβερ”
  • Gujarati: “ડોવર”
  • Haitian: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Haitian: “Dover”
  • Hebrew: “דובר”
  • Hindi: “डोवर”
  • Hungarian: “Dover”
  • Icelandic: “Dover (Delaware)”
  • Icelandic: “Dover”
  • Ido: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Ido: “Dover”
  • Iloko: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Iloko: “Dover”
  • Inari Sami: “Dover”
  • Indonesian: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Indonesian: “Dover”
  • Interlingua: “Dover”
  • Interlingue: “Dover”
  • Irish: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Irish: “Dover”
  • Italian: “Dover”
  • Japanese: “ドーヴァー”
  • Japanese: “ドーバー”
  • Kabyle: “Dover”
  • Kannada: “ಡೋವರ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Довер”
  • Korean: “도버”
  • Kurdish: “Dover”
  • Ladin: “Dover”
  • Latin: “Dubris”
  • Latvian: “Dovera”
  • Ligurian: “Dover”
  • Lithuanian: “Doveris”
  • Lombard: “Dover”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Dover”
  • Macedonian: “Довер”
  • Malagasy: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Malagasy: “Dover”
  • Malay: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Malay: “Dover”
  • Malayalam: “ഡോവർ, ഡിലാവെയർ”
  • Marathi: “डोव्हर”
  • Mazanderani: “دوور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dover”
  • Mingrelian: “დოვერი (დელავერი)”
  • Mingrelian: “დოვერი”
  • Mirandese: “Dover”
  • Nepali: “डोभर”
  • Newari: “दोभर, देलावेर”
  • Newari: “दोभर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dover”
  • Northern Sami: “Dover”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dover”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dover i Delaware”
  • Norwegian: “Dover”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dover”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dōfor on Delawarlande”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dofor”
  • Ossetian: “Довер”
  • Pali: “डोभर”
  • Pampanga: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Pampanga: “Dover”
  • Persian: “دوور، دلاور”
  • Persian: “دوور”
  • Piemontese: “Dover”
  • Polish: “Dover”
  • Portuguese: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Portuguese: “Dover”
  • Quechua: “Dover”
  • Romanian: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Romanian: “Dover”
  • Russian: “Довер”
  • Samogitian: “Doverės”
  • Sanskrit: “डोवर्, डेलावेर्”
  • Sanskrit: “डोवर्”
  • Sardinian: “Dover”
  • Scots: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Scots: “Dover”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dover”
  • Serbian: “Довер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dover, Delaver”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dover”
  • Sicilian: “Dover”
  • Silesian: “Dover”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෝවර්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Dover”
  • Slovak: “Dover”
  • Slovenian: “Dover”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوور، دلاویر”
  • Spanish: “Dover (Delaware)”
  • Spanish: “Dover”
  • Swahili: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Swahili: “Dover”
  • Swedish: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Swedish: “Dover”
  • Tagalog: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Tagalog: “Dover”
  • Talysh: “Dover”
  • Tamil: “டோவர்”
  • Tatar: “Довер”
  • Telugu: “డోవర్”
  • Thai: “โดเวอร์”
  • Turkish: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Turkish: “Dover”
  • Ukrainian: “Довер”
  • Urdu: “ڈوور، ڈیلاویئر”
  • Urdu: “ڈوور”
  • Uzbek: “Dover”
  • Venetian: “Dover”
  • Vietnamese: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Vietnamese: “Dover”
  • Volapük: “Dover”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dover, Delaware”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dover”
  • Welsh: “Dover, Delaware”
  • Welsh: “Dover”
  • Western Frisian: “Dover”
  • Western Mari: “Довер”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈوور، ڈیلاویئر”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈوور”
  • Wu Chinese: “多佛（特拉华州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “多佛”
  • Yiddish: “דאווער, דעלאווער”
  • Yiddish: “דאווער”
  • Yue Chinese: “多佛”
  • “Dover”
  • “Doveris”

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