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Greensboro

Greensboro is a city of almost 300,000 people in . It is named after Nathanael Greene, a Patriot general who fought a battle here during the Revolutionary War.
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  • Type: City with 299,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Carolina, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Greensboro, NC”, “Greensboro, North Carolina”, “Greensborough”, and “Greensborough, North Carolina”
  • Postal codes: 27401-27413, 27415-27417, 27419, 27420, 27425, 27427, 27429, 27435, 27438, 27455, 27495, 27498, and 27499

Places of Interest

Highlights include North Carolina A&T State University and International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

University
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is a public, historically black, land-grant research university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

Museum
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The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is located in Greensboro, , United States. Its building formerly housed the Woolworth's, the site of a nonviolent protest in the civil rights movement and is now a National Historic Landmark, as well as a part of the Downtown Greensboro Historic District.

Museum
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The Greensboro History Museum, consisting of the former and Smith Memorial Building, is a historic building located at 130 Summit Ave. in Greensboro, .

Greensboro

Latitude
36.0726° or 36° 4′ 22″ north
Longitude
-79.792° or 79° 47′ 31″ west
Population
299,000
Elevation
873 feet (266 metres)
IATA airport code
GSO
United Nations Location Code
US GBO
Open location code
878236F5+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158417274
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4469146
Wiki­data ID
Q49238
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Greensboro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غرينزبورو”
  • Armenian: “Գրինսբորո”
  • Asturian: “Greensboro”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qrinsboro”
  • Balinese: “Greensboro, Carolina Kalér”
  • Bambara: “Greensboro”
  • Basque: “Greensboro”
  • Belarusian: “Грынзбара”
  • Belarusian: “Грынсбара”
  • Bengali: “গ্রিঞ্জবারো, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bengali: “গ্রিঞ্জবারো”
  • Breton: “Greensboro”
  • Bulgarian: “Грийнсбъро”
  • Catalan: “Greensboro”
  • Cebuano: “Greensboro”
  • Central Kurdish: “گرینزبۆرۆ”
  • Chechen: “Гринсборо”
  • Chinese: “Greensboro”
  • Chinese: “格林斯伯勒 (北卡罗来纳州)”
  • Chinese: “格林斯伯勒 (北卡羅來納州)”
  • Chinese: “格林斯伯勒”
  • Cornish: “Greensboro, Karolina Gledh”
  • Cornish: “Greensboro”
  • Croatian: “Greensboro, Sjeverna Karolina”
  • Croatian: “Greensboro”
  • Czech: “Greensboro”
  • Dagbani: “Greensboro”
  • Danish: “Greensboro”
  • Dutch: “Greensboro”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرينزبورو, نورث كارولاينا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرينزبورو”
  • Esperanto: “Greensboro”
  • Estonian: “Greensboro”
  • Faroese: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Faroese: “Greensboro”
  • Finnish: “Greensboro”
  • French: “Greensboro”
  • Galician: “Greensboro, Carolina do Norte”
  • Galician: “Greensboro, NC”
  • Galician: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Galician: “Greensboro”
  • Georgian: “გრინსბორო”
  • German: “Greensboro”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Greensboro, NC”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Greensboro”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Greensborough, North Carolina”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Greensborough”
  • Gilaki: “گرینزبؤرؤ (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “گرینزبؤرؤ”
  • Greek: “Γκρίνσμπορο, Βόρεια Καρολίνα”
  • Greek: “Γκρίνσμπορο”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્રીન્સબોરો”
  • Haitian: “Greensboro, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hausa: “Greensboro, NC”
  • Hausa: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Hausa: “Greensboro”
  • Hausa: “Greensborough, North Carolina”
  • Hausa: “Greensborough”
  • Hebrew: “גרינסבורו”
  • Hindi: “ग्रीन्सबोरो”
  • Hungarian: “Greensboro”
  • Icelandic: “Greensboro”
  • Indonesian: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Interlingua: “Greensboro”
  • Irish: “Greensboro, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Greensboro”
  • Italian: “Greensboro”
  • Japanese: “グリーンズボロ”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರೀನ್ಸ್ಬೊರೊ”
  • Korean: “그린즈버러”
  • Ladin: “Greensboro”
  • Latvian: “Grīnsboro”
  • Lithuanian: “Grinsboras”
  • Malagasy: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Malagasy: “Greensboro”
  • Malay: “Greensboro”
  • Marathi: “ग्रीन्सबोरो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Greensboro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Greensboro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Greensboro”
  • Norwegian: “Greensboro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Greensboro”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grœnesburh”
  • Ossetian: “Гринсборо”
  • Persian: “گرینزبورو، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “گرینزبورو”
  • Piemontese: “Greensboro”
  • Polish: “Greensboro”
  • Portuguese: “Greensboro”
  • Romanian: “Greensboro, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Greensboro”
  • Russian: “Гринсборо”
  • Scots: “Greensboro”
  • Serbian: “Гринсборо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Greensboro”
  • Silesian: “Greensboro”
  • Sinhala: “ග්‍රීන්ස්බොරෝ”
  • Slovak: “Greensboro”
  • Slovenian: “Greensboro”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گرینزبورو”
  • Spanish: “Greensboro (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Greensboro”
  • Swahili: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Swahili: “Greensboro”
  • Swedish: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Greensboro”
  • Tagalog: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Tagalog: “Greensboro”
  • Tamil: “கிரீன்ஸ்போரோ”
  • Tatar: “Гринсборо”
  • Telugu: “గ్రీన్స్బోరో”
  • Thai: “กรีนส์โบโร”
  • Turkish: “Greensboro, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Greensboro”
  • Ukrainian: “Грінсборо”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґрінсборо”
  • Urdu: “گرینزبورو، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “Greensboro”
  • Vietnamese: “Greensboro, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Greensboro”
  • Volapük: “Greensboro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Greensboro, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Greensboro”
  • Welsh: “Greensboro, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Greensboro”
  • Wu Chinese: “格林斯伯勒（北卡罗来纳州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “格林斯伯勒”

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