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Knoxville

Knoxville, in Knox County, is the third-largest city in . It is the home of the University of Tennessee's primary campus and site of the 1982 World's Fair.
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  • Type: City with 191,000 residents
  • Description: city and county seat of Knox County, State of Tennessee, United States
  • Also known as: “Knoxville, Tennessee”, “Knoxville, TN”, “Whites Fort”, and “Whites Mill”
  • Postal codes: 37901, 37902, 37909, 37912, 37914-37924, 37927-37933, 37938-37940, 37950, and 37995-37998

Places of Interest

Highlights include University of Tennessee and Neyland Stadium.

University
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The , Knoxville is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the system, with 14 colleges.

Stadium
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is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several National Football League exhibition games.

Church
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A or Masonic Hall is, within Freemasonry, the room or edifice where a Masonic Lodge meets. may also refer to an abstract spiritual goal and the conceptual ritualistic space of a meeting.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old North Knoxville and Fort Sanders.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located just north of the city's downtown area. Initially established as the town of North Knoxville in 1889, the area was a prominent suburb for Knoxville's upper middle and professional classes until the 1950s.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, located west of the downtown area and immediately north of the main campus of the .

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located northwest of the city's downtown area. One of the city's oldest neighborhoods, was established in the late 1860s for skilled laborers working in the many factories that sprang up along Knoxville's periphery.

Knoxville

Latitude
35.9677° or 35° 58′ 4″ north
Longitude
-83.9232° or 83° 55′ 24″ west
Population
191,000
Elevation
906 feet (276 metres)
IATA airport code
TYS
United Nations Location Code
US TYS
Open location code
867RX39G+3P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1979205040
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4634946
Wiki­data ID
Q185582
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Knoxville” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Knoxville”
  • Arabic: “نوكسفيل”
  • Armenian: “Նոքսվիլ”
  • Asturian: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Asturian: “Knoxville”
  • Azerbaijani: “Noksvill (Tennessi)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Noksvill”
  • Basque: “Knoxville”
  • Belarusian: “Ноксвіл”
  • Belarusian: “Ноксвіль”
  • Bengali: “নক্সভিল, টেনেসি”
  • Bengali: “নক্সভিল”
  • Breton: “Knoxville”
  • Bulgarian: “Ноксвил”
  • Catalan: “Knoxville”
  • Cebuano: “Knoxville”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناکسڤیڵ”
  • Chechen: “Ноксвилл”
  • Cherokee: “ᎪᎲᏓᏓᎳ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎾᎩᏏᏫᎵ”
  • Chinese: “Knoxville”
  • Chinese: “诺克斯维尔”
  • Chinese: “諾克斯維爾”
  • Chinese: “諾士維”
  • Cornish: “Knoxville, Tennessi”
  • Cornish: “Knoxville”
  • Czech: “Knoxville”
  • Dagbani: “Knoxville”
  • Danish: “Knoxville”
  • Dutch: “Knoxville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نوكسفيل”
  • Esperanto: “Knoxville”
  • Estonian: “Knoxville”
  • Faroese: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Faroese: “Knoxville”
  • Finnish: “Knoxville”
  • French: “Knoxville (Tennessee)”
  • French: “Knoxville”
  • Galician: “Knoxville”
  • German: “Knoxville”
  • Gilaki: “ناکسويل”
  • Greek: “Νόξβιλ (Τενεσί)”
  • Greek: “Νόξβιλ (Τενεσσί)”
  • Greek: “Νόξβιλ”
  • Gujarati: “નોક્સવિલ”
  • Haitian: “Knoxville”
  • Hawaiian: “Knoxville, Kenekī”
  • Hawaiian: “Knoxville”
  • Hebrew: “נוקסוויל”
  • Hindi: “नॉक्सविले”
  • Hungarian: “Knoxville”
  • Icelandic: “Knoxville”
  • Ido: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Ido: “Knoxville”
  • Inari Sami: “Knoxville”
  • Indonesian: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Indonesian: “Knoxville”
  • Interlingua: “Knoxville”
  • Irish: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Irish: “Knoxville”
  • Italian: “Knoxville”
  • Japanese: “ノックスヴィル (テネシー)”
  • Japanese: “ノックスヴィル”
  • Japanese: “ノックスビル (テネシー)”
  • Japanese: “ノックスビル”
  • Kannada: “ನಾಕ್ಸ್ವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Ноксвилл”
  • Korean: “낙스빌”
  • Korean: “녹스빌”
  • Ladin: “Knoxville”
  • Latin: “Knoxopolis”
  • Latvian: “Noksvila”
  • Lithuanian: “Knoksvilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Noksvilis”
  • Lombard: “Knoxville”
  • Luxembourgish: “Knoxville”
  • Malagasy: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Malagasy: “Knoxville”
  • Malay: “Knoxville”
  • Marathi: “नॉक्सव्हिल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Knoxville”
  • Nauru: “Knoxville”
  • Navajo: “Joołdahsiʼą́”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Knoxville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Knoxville”
  • Norwegian: “Knoxville”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cnoccsfyll”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cnoccswic on Tennesīeg”
  • Ossetian: “Ноксвилл”
  • Ossetian: “Ноксвилль”
  • Persian: “ناکسویل، تنسی”
  • Persian: “ناکسویل”
  • Piemontese: “Knoxville”
  • Polish: “Knoxville”
  • Portuguese: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Portuguese: “Knoxville, TN”
  • Portuguese: “Knoxville”
  • Romanian: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Romanian: “Knoxville”
  • Russian: “Ноксвилл”
  • Russian: “Ноксвилле”
  • Russian: “Ноксвиль”
  • Sardinian: “Knoxville”
  • Scots: “Knoxville”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Knoxville”
  • Serbian: “Ноксвил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Knoxville”
  • Silesian: “Knoxville”
  • Sinhala: “ක්නොක්ස්විලී”
  • Slovak: “Knoxville”
  • Slovenian: “Knoxville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ناکسویل، تنسی”
  • Spanish: “Knoxville (Tennessee)”
  • Spanish: “Knoxville”
  • Swahili: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Swahili: “Knoxville”
  • Swedish: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Swedish: “Knoxville”
  • Tagalog: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Tagalog: “Knoxville”
  • Tamil: “க்னோஸ்வில்லே”
  • Tatar: “Ноксвил”
  • Telugu: “నాక్స్విల్”
  • Thai: “นอกซ์วิลล์”
  • Thai: “น็อกซ์วิลล์”
  • Turkish: “Knoxville”
  • Ukrainian: “Ноксвілл”
  • Urdu: “ناکسویل، ٹینیسی”
  • Urdu: “ناکسویل”
  • Uzbek: “Knoxville”
  • Venetian: “Knoxville”
  • Vietnamese: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Vietnamese: “Knoxville”
  • Volapük: “Knoxville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Knoxville”
  • Welsh: “Knoxville, Tennessee”
  • Welsh: “Knoxville”
  • Western Frisian: “Knoxville”
  • Wu Chinese: “诺克斯维尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “諾克斯維爾”
  • “Knoxville”

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