Dubuque
Dubuque, founded in 1833, is the oldest city in Iowa. A port on the upper Mississippi River, it is situated along scenic bluffs facing the river, and has its roots in a mining and trading settlement established in the area by Quebec-born entrepreneur Julien Dubuque in 1788.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 59,700 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Dubuque, Iowa, United States
- Also known as: “Dubuque, IA” and “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Postal codes: 52001-52004 and 52099
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loras College and Five Flags Center.
Loras College
University
Photo: Bahua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Loras College is a private Catholic college in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It has an enrollment of approximately 1,600 students and is the oldest post-secondary institution in the state of Iowa.
Five Flags Center
Theater building
Photo: Djh57, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five Flags Center is a multi-purpose facility in downtown Dubuque, Iowa. It is named for the five flags that have flown over Dubuque; the Fleur de Lis of France, the Royal Flag of Spain, the Union Jack of Great Britain, the French Republic Flag of Napoleon & America's Stars and Stripes.
St. Raphael’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: QuartierLatin1968, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Raphael's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Archdiocese of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa in the United States. The parish is the oldest congregation of any Christian denomination in the state of Iowa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Dubuque and Port of Dubuque.
East Dubuque
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Dubuque is a city in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,505 at the 2020 census, down from 1,704 in 2010. East Dubuque is located alongside the Mississippi River.
Port of Dubuque
Neighborhood
The Port of Dubuque is the section of downtown Dubuque, Iowa, USA, that is immediately adjacent to 579.4 mile to the Mississippi River. The area was among the first areas settled in what became the City of Dubuque, and the State of Iowa.
Rockdale
Hamlet
Rockdale, Iowa was a small unincorporated village formerly located just south of Dubuque, Iowa between Dubuque and Key West, Iowa. The village was situated on the Catfish Creek in Dubuque County, Iowa, and was the site of one of the first mills in the state of Iowa.
Dubuque
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Dubuque, Dubuque, Eastern Iowa, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.5006° or 42° 30′ 2″ northLongitude
-90.6648° or 90° 39′ 53″ westPopulation
59,700Elevation
620 feet (189 metres)Inception
1833IATA airport code
DBQUnited Nations Location Code
US DBQOpen location code
86JFG82P+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 151323772OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Dubuque” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دوبوك”
- Arabic: “دوبيوك”
- Armenian: “Դուբյուք”
- Basque: “Dubuque”
- Bengali: “ডিবুক”
- Bulgarian: “Дъбюк”
- Catalan: “Dubuque”
- Cebuano: “Dubuque”
- Chechen: “Дюбюк”
- Chinese: “Dubuque”
- Chinese: “迪比克”
- Czech: “Dubuque”
- Dagbani: “Dubuque”
- Danish: “Dubuque”
- Dutch: “Dubuque”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دوبوك”
- Estonian: “Dubuque”
- Finnish: “Dubuque”
- French: “Dubuque”
- German: “Dubuque”
- Gilaki: “دۊبۊک (آیؤوا)”
- Gilaki: “دۊبۊک”
- Greek: “Ντουμπούκ”
- Gujarati: “ડુબુક્યુ”
- Haitian: “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Haitian: “Dubuque”
- Hebrew: “דובוק”
- Hindi: “डब्यूक्यू”
- Hungarian: “Dubuque”
- Ido: “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Ido: “Dubuque”
- Indonesian: “Dubuque”
- Interlingua: “Dubuque”
- Irish: “Dubuque”
- Italian: “Dubuque”
- Japanese: “ダビューク”
- Japanese: “ドゥビューク”
- Kannada: “ಡುಬಾಕ್ಯೂ”
- Kazakh: “Dwbwgyu”
- Kazakh: “Дубугю”
- Kazakh: “دۋبۋگيۋ”
- Kirghiz: “Дубугю”
- Korean: “더뷰크”
- Ladin: “Dubuque”
- Latvian: “Dubjūka”
- Latvian: “Dubuka”
- Lithuanian: “Dubuka”
- Luxembourgish: “Dubuque”
- Malagasy: “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Malagasy: “Dubuque”
- Malay: “Dubuque”
- Marathi: “डबक्यू”
- Marathi: “डुब्युक”
- Mazanderani: “دوبوک (آیووا)”
- Mazanderani: “دوبوک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dubuque”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dubuque”
- Norwegian: “Dubuque”
- Persian: “دوبوک”
- Polish: “Dubuque”
- Portuguese: “Dubuque”
- Russian: “Дабек”
- Russian: “Дубьюк (Айова)”
- Russian: “Дубьюк (Йова)”
- Russian: “Дубьюк”
- Russian: “Дюбюк”
- Serbian: “Dubjuk”
- Serbian: “Dubuque”
- Serbian: “Дубјук”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dubuque”
- Silesian: “Dubuque”
- Sinhala: “ඩබියුක්”
- Slovak: “Dubuque”
- Slovenian: “Dubuque”
- South Azerbaijani: “دوبوک، آیووا”
- Spanish: “Dubuque (Iowa)”
- Spanish: “Dubuque”
- Swedish: “Dubuque”
- Tamil: “டுபுக்கி”
- Tatar: “Дюбюк”
- Telugu: “డబ్యుక్యు”
- Thai: “ดูบิวก์”
- Turkish: “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Turkish: “Dubuque”
- Ukrainian: “Дубук”
- Ukrainian: “Дюбюк”
- Urdu: “ڈوبیوک، آئیووا”
- Urdu: “ڈوبیوک”
- Uzbek: “Dubuque”
- Uzbek: “Дубуқуе”
- Vietnamese: “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Dubuque”
- Volapük: “Dubuque”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dubuque”
- Welsh: “Dubuque, Iowa”
- Welsh: “Dubuque”
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