Gainesville

Gainesville is in . It is home to the University of Florida, and Santa Fe College.
  • Type: City with 117,000 residents
  • Description: city and county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States
  • Also known as: Gainesville, FL”, “Gainesville, Florida”, and “Hog Town
  • Postal codes: 32601-32612, 32614, 32627, 32635, 32641, and 32653

Places of Interest

Highlights include Smathers Library and Hippodrome State Theatre.

Library
is a historic in Gainesville, , . It is located in the northeastern section of the University of Florida in the middle of the Campus Historic District.

Theater building
Photo: Ebyabe, CC BY 2.5.
The Hippodrome Theatre is a regional professional theatre in downtown Gainesville, , . It was founded in 1973 by local actors and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1979.

Library
The Marston Science Library, often called Marston, is the science and engineering library of the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida.

Gainesville

Latitude
29.652° or 29° 39′ 7″ north
Longitude
-82.325° or 82° 19′ 30″ west
Population
117,000
Elevation
177 feet (54 metres)
IATA airport code
GNV
United Nations Location Code
US GNV
Open location code
76XVMM2G+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 35829073
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4156404
Wiki­data ID
Q487999
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Gainesville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: غاينيسفيل
  • Arabic: غينزفيل
  • Armenian: Գեյնսվիլ
  • Asturian: Gainesville
  • Azerbaijani: Geynsvill
  • Basque: Gainesville
  • Belarusian: Гейнсвіл
  • Belarusian: Гейнсьвіл
  • Bengali: গেইন্সভিল
  • Bulgarian: Гейнсвил
  • Catalan: Gainesville
  • Cebuano: Gainesville
  • Central Kurdish: گەینزڤیڵ
  • Chechen: Гейнсвилл
  • Chinese: Gainesville
  • Chinese: 盖恩斯维尔
  • Chinese: 蓋恩斯維爾
  • Czech: Gainesville
  • Danish: Gainesville
  • Dutch: Gainesville
  • Egyptian Arabic: جينزفيل
  • Esperanto: Gainesville
  • Estonian: Gainesville
  • Finnish: Gainesville
  • French: Gainesville
  • Galician: Gainesville, Florida
  • Galician: Gainesville
  • Georgian: გეინსვილი
  • German: Gainesville
  • Gilaki: گینزويل (فلؤريدا)
  • Gilaki: گینزويل
  • Greek: Γκέινσβιλ
  • Gujarati: ગેઇન્સવિલ
  • Haitian: Gainesville, Florid
  • Haitian: Gainesville
  • Hebrew: גיינסוויל
  • Hindi: गैएंसविले
  • Hungarian: Gainesville
  • Ido: Gainesville, Florida
  • Ido: Gainesville
  • Indonesian: Gainesville, Florida
  • Indonesian: Gainesville
  • Interlingua: Gainesville
  • Irish: Gainesville, Florida
  • Irish: Gainesville
  • Italian: Gainesville
  • Japanese: ゲインズヴィル
  • Japanese: ゲインズビル
  • Kannada: ಗೇನ್ಸ್ವಿಲ್ಲೆ
  • Kazakh: Гейнсвилл
  • Korean: 게인즈빌
  • Ladin: Gainesville
  • Latin: Gainesopolis
  • Latin: Gainesville
  • Latvian: Geinsvila
  • Lithuanian: Geinsvilis
  • Lombard: Gainesville
  • Luxembourgish: Gainesville
  • Malagasy: Gainesville, Florida
  • Malagasy: Gainesville
  • Malay: Gainesville
  • Marathi: गेन्सविल
  • Min Nan Chinese: Gainesville
  • Moksha: Гэйнсвилл (Флорида)
  • Moksha: Гэйнсвилл
  • Newari: गाइन्सभिल
  • Newari: गायनेक्जभिल
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Gainesville i Florida
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Gainesville
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Gainesville i Florida
  • Norwegian: Gainesville
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Gǣneswīc on Blostmalande
  • Persian: گینزویل، فلوریدا
  • Persian: گینزویل
  • Persian: گینس ویل، فلوریدا
  • Persian: گینس‌ویل
  • Polish: Gainesville
  • Portuguese: Gainesville
  • Romanian: Gainesville
  • Russian: Gainesville, Florida
  • Russian: Gainesville
  • Russian: Гейнсвил
  • Russian: Гейнсвилл
  • Russian: Гейнсвилль
  • Scots: Gainesville
  • Serbian: Гејнзвил
  • Serbian: Гејнсвил
  • Serbo-Croatian: Gainesville, Florida
  • Serbo-Croatian: Gainesville
  • Silesian: Gainesville
  • Sinhala: ගෙයින්ස්විල්
  • Slovak: Gainesville
  • Slovenian: Gainesville
  • South Azerbaijani: قینزویل، فلوریدا
  • Spanish: Gainesville (Florida)
  • Spanish: Gainesville
  • Swahili: Gainesville, Florida
  • Swahili: Gainesville
  • Swedish: Gainesville, Florida
  • Swedish: Gainesville
  • Tagalog: Gainesville, Florida
  • Tagalog: Gainesville
  • Tamil: கைனெஸ்வில்லே
  • Tatar: Гейнсвил
  • Telugu: గైన్స్వెల్
  • Thai: เกนส์วิลล์
  • Turkish: Gainesville, Florida
  • Turkish: Gainesville
  • Ukrainian: Гейнсвілл
  • Ukrainian: Ґейнсвілл
  • Urdu: جاینیسویلی
  • Uzbek: Gainesville
  • Uzbek: Гаинесвилле
  • Venetian: Gainesville
  • Vietnamese: Gainesville, Florida
  • Vietnamese: Gainesville
  • Volapük: Gainesville
  • Waray (Philippines): Gainesville, Florida
  • Waray (Philippines): Gainesville
  • Welsh: Gainesville, Florida
  • Welsh: Gainesville
  • Wu Chinese: 盖恩斯维尔(佛罗里达州)
  • Wu Chinese: 盖恩斯维尔

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