Kent

Kent is a college town in . Kent, the home of Kent State University, is a quaint town with a very diverse community where northeast Ohio locals mix with students from across the state nation and globe.
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  • Type: City with 27,800 residents
  • Description: city in Portage County, Ohio, United States of America
  • Also known as: Carthage”, “Franklin”, “Franklin Mills”, “Kent, OH”, “Kent, Ohio”, and “Lower Village
  • Postal codes: 44240, 44242, and 44243

Places of Interest

Highlights include Masonic Temple and Kent Free Library.

Community center
The in Kent, Ohio is a historic building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built between 1880 and 1882 in the Italianate style, it was originally the home of Kent namesake Marvin Kent and his family.

Library
The is a public library located in Kent, Ohio, United States. The oldest part of its current building is a Carnegie library that opened in 1903.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brady Lake.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated census-designated place and former village in , , United States. The population was 1,222 at the 2020 census.

Kent

Latitude
41.1513° or 41° 9′ 5″ north
Longitude
-81.3578° or 81° 21′ 28″ west
Population
27,800
Elevation
1,066 feet (325 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US KTO
Open location code
86HW5J2R+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154213018
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5159537
Wiki­data ID
Q989949
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Kent” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Kent, Ohio
  • Albanian: Kent
  • Arabic: كينت (أوهايو)
  • Arabic: كينت
  • Basque: Kent
  • Belarusian: Кент
  • Bengali: কেন্ট, ওহাইও
  • Bengali: কেন্ট
  • Catalan: Kent (Ohio)
  • Catalan: Kent
  • Cebuano: Kent
  • Chechen: Кент
  • Chinese: Kent
  • Chinese: 肯特
  • Czech: Kent
  • Dagbani: Kent
  • Danish: Kent
  • Dutch: Kent (Ohio)
  • Dutch: Kent
  • Egyptian Arabic: كينت
  • Esperanto: Kent
  • Finnish: Kent
  • French: Kent (Ohio)
  • French: Kent
  • German: Kent (Ohio)
  • German: Kent
  • Gilaki: کنت (اؤهایؤ)
  • Gilaki: کنت
  • Haitian: Kent, Ohio
  • Haitian: Kent
  • Hebrew: קנט (אוהיו)
  • Hungarian: Kent
  • Indonesian: Kent, Ohio
  • Indonesian: Kent
  • Irish: Kent
  • Italian: Kent (Ohio)
  • Italian: Kent
  • Japanese: ケント
  • Japanese: ケント市
  • Kazakh: Kent
  • Kazakh: Кент
  • Kazakh: كەنت
  • Kirghiz: Кент
  • Korean: 켄트
  • Ladin: Kent
  • Malagasy: Kent, Ohio
  • Malagasy: Kent
  • Marathi: केंट
  • Min Nan Chinese: Kent
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kent
  • Norwegian: Kent
  • Persian: کنت، اوهایو
  • Persian: کنت
  • Polish: Kent (Ohio)
  • Polish: Kent
  • Portuguese: Kent (Ohio)
  • Portuguese: Kent
  • Russian: Кент (Огайо)
  • Russian: Кент
  • Scots: Kent, Ohio
  • Scots: Kent
  • Serbian: Кент (Охајо)
  • Serbian: Кент
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kent (Ohio)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kent, Ohio
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kent
  • Slovak: Kent
  • Slovenian: Kent
  • South Azerbaijani: کنت، اوهایو
  • Spanish: Kent (Ohio)
  • Spanish: Kent
  • Swedish: Kent, Ohio
  • Swedish: Kent
  • Tagalog: Kent, Ohio
  • Tagalog: Kent
  • Tatar: Кент
  • Turkish: Kent, Ohio
  • Turkish: Kent
  • Ukrainian: Кент
  • Urdu: کینٹ، اوہائیو
  • Urdu: کینٹ
  • Uzbek: Kent
  • Uzbek: Кент
  • Vietnamese: Kent, Ohio
  • Vietnamese: Kent
  • Volapük: Kent
  • Waray (Philippines): Kent, Ohio
  • Waray (Philippines): Kent
  • Welsh: Kent, Ohio
  • Welsh: Kent

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