Dubuque

Dubuque, founded in 1833, is the oldest city in . A port on the upper , it is situated along scenic bluffs facing the river, and has its roots in a mining and trading settlement established in the area by -born entrepreneur Julien Dubuque in 1788.
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  • 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 St. Raphael’s Cathedral.

University
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is a private 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 .

Church
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St. Raphael's Cathedral is a 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.

Theater building
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is a multi-purpose facility in downtown Dubuque, Iowa. It is named for the five flags that have flown over Dubuque; the Royal French Flag, the Royal Flag of Spain, the Union Jack of Great Britain, the flag of the French Republic, and the flag of the United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Dubuque and Port of Dubuque.

Village
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is a city in , , United States. The population was 1,505 at the 2020 census, down from 1,704 in 2010. is located alongside the .

Neighborhood
The is the section of downtown Dubuque, Iowa, United States, that is immediately adjacent to the . The area was among the first areas settled in what became the City of Dubuque, and the State of .

Hamlet
, Iowa was a small unincorporated formerly located just south of Dubuque, Iowa between Dubuque and . The village was situated on the Catfish Creek in , and was the site of one of the first mills in the state of .

Dubuque

Latitude
42.5006° or 42° 30′ 2″ north
Longitude
-90.6648° or 90° 39′ 53″ west
Population
59,700
Elevation
620 feet (189 metres)
Inception
1833
IATA airport code
DBQ
United Nations Location Code
US DBQ
Open location code
86JFG82P+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151323772
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4854529
Wiki­data ID
Q493794
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Satellite Map

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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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