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Lansing

Lansing is a pleasant city, and as 's state capital, it is home to many government offices. Downtown Lansing has a historic shopping district amidst the campus of Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
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  • Type: City with 113,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ingham County, Eaton County and Clinton County, Michigan, USA and Michigan federated state capital city
  • Also known as: “Lansing, MI” and “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Postal codes: 48901, 48906, 48909-48913, 48915, 48916, 48918, 48919, 48922, 48924, 48929, 48930, 48933, 48937, 48956, and 48980

Places of Interest

Highlights include Michigan State Capitol and R. E. Olds Transportation Museum.

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The is the building that houses the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of . It is in the portion of the state capital of Lansing which lies in .

Museum
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The R.E. Olds Transportation Museum is named for Ransom E. Olds, founder of Oldsmobile and REO, and is located in Lansing, Michigan. It is one of the top-rated automotive museums in the United States.

Museum
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Voted #1 Best Children's Museum in the United States in 2025 by Newsweek, , is a hands-on science museum located in downtown Lansing, Michigan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Edgemont Park and REO Town.

Village
is a census-designated place in in the U.S. state of . It is located within . The population was 2,326 at the 2020 census.

Neighborhood
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is a district in Lansing, Michigan, United States, located south of downtown. The neighborhood is bordered by West Malcolm X Street to the north; South Cedar Street BL I-96 to the east; West Mount Hope Avenue to the south; and Townsend Street, the Grand River, and South Martin Luther King Jr.

Lansing

Latitude
42.7338° or 42° 44′ 2″ north
Longitude
-84.5546° or 84° 33′ 17″ west
Population
113,000
Elevation
853 feet (260 metres)
IATA airport code
LAN
United Nations Location Code
US LAN
Open location code
86JQPCMW+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278747579
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4998830
Wiki­data ID
Q28237
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lansing” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lansing”
  • Albanian: “Lansing”
  • Arabic: “لانسنغ، مشيغن”
  • Arabic: “لانسنغ”
  • Arabic: “لانسنگ، مشيگن”
  • Arabic: “لانسينغ، ميشيغان”
  • Aragonese: “Lansing”
  • Armenian: “Լանսինգ”
  • Armenian: “Լենսինգ”
  • Asturian: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Asturian: “Lansing”
  • Basque: “Lansing”
  • Belarusian: “Лансінг”
  • Belarusian: “Лэнсінг”
  • Bengali: “ল্যানসিং, মিশিগান”
  • Bengali: “ল্যানসিং”
  • Bislama: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Bislama: “Lansing”
  • Bosnian: “Lansing”
  • Breton: “Lansing”
  • Bulgarian: “Лансинг”
  • Catalan: “Lansing”
  • Cebuano: “Lansing”
  • Central Kurdish: “لانسینگ، میشیگان”
  • Central Kurdish: “لانسینگ”
  • Chechen: “Лансинг”
  • Chinese: “Lansing”
  • Chinese: “兰辛”
  • Chinese: “兰辛市”
  • Chinese: “蘭城”
  • Chinese: “蘭辛”
  • Cornish: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Cornish: “Lansing”
  • Czech: “Lansing”
  • Danish: “Lansing”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lansing”
  • Dutch: “Lansing”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لانسنج”
  • Esperanto: “Lansing”
  • Esperanto: “Lansingo”
  • Estonian: “Lansing”
  • Extremaduran: “Lansing”
  • Faroese: “Lansing”
  • Finnish: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Finnish: “Lansing”
  • French: “Lansing, MI”
  • French: “Lansing”
  • Galician: “Lansing, Míchigan”
  • Galician: “Lansing”
  • Georgian: “ლანსინგი”
  • German: “Lansing”
  • Gilaki: “لانسينگ (ميشيگان)”
  • Gilaki: “لنسينگ”
  • Gothic: “𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌲”
  • Greek: “Λάνσινγκ, Μίσιγκαν”
  • Greek: “Λάνσινγκ”
  • Gujarati: “લાન્સિંગ”
  • Hebrew: “לאנסינג”
  • Hebrew: “לנסינג”
  • Hindi: “लांसिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Lansing”
  • Icelandic: “Lansing”
  • Ido: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Ido: “Lansing”
  • Iloko: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Iloko: “Lansing”
  • Indonesian: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Indonesian: “Lansing”
  • Interlingua: “Lansing”
  • Interlingue: “Lansing”
  • Irish: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Irish: “Lansing”
  • Italian: “Lansing”
  • Japanese: “ランシング”
  • Kabyle: “Lansing”
  • Kannada: “ಲ್ಯಾನ್ಸಿಂಗ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Лансинг”
  • Komering: “Lansing”
  • Korean: “랜싱”
  • Kurdish: “Lansing”
  • Ladin: “Lansing”
  • Latin: “Lansinga”
  • Latvian: “Lansing”
  • Latvian: “Lansinga”
  • Ligurian: “Lansing”
  • Lithuanian: “Lansingas”
  • Lombard: “Lansing”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lansing”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Lansing”
  • Macedonian: “Лансинг”
  • Macedonian: “Ленсинг”
  • Malagasy: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Malagasy: “Lansing”
  • Malay: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Malay: “Lansing”
  • Malayalam: “ലാൻസിങ്, മിഷിഗൺ”
  • Malayalam: “ലാൻസിങ്”
  • Marathi: “लान्सिंग”
  • Mazanderani: “لنسینگ (میشیگان)”
  • Mazanderani: “لنسینگ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lansing”
  • Navajo: “Dilkʼischíító”
  • Newari: “लान्सिङ, मिशिगन”
  • Newari: “लान्सिङ”
  • Northern Luri: “لنسینگ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lansing”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lansing”
  • Norwegian: “Lansing”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lansing”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lǣnsing”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lǣnsinge”
  • Ossetian: “Лансинг”
  • Pali: “ल्यान्सिंग”
  • Pampanga: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Pampanga: “Lansing”
  • Persian: “لنسینگ، میشیگان”
  • Persian: “لنسینگ”
  • Piemontese: “Lansing”
  • Polish: “Lansing”
  • Portuguese: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Portuguese: “Lansing”
  • Quechua: “Lansing”
  • Romanian: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Romanian: “Lansing”
  • Russian: “Лансинг”
  • Russian: “Лэнсинг”
  • Samogitian: “Lansings”
  • Sanskrit: “लान्सिङ्”
  • Sardinian: “Lansing”
  • Scots: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Scots: “Lansing”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lansing MI”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Serbian: “Лансинг”
  • Serbian: “Ленсинг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lansing”
  • Silesian: “Lansing”
  • Sinhala: “ලන්සින්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Lansing”
  • Slovenian: “Lansing”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لنسینق، میشیقان”
  • Spanish: “Lansing (Míchigan)”
  • Spanish: “Lansing”
  • Swahili: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Swahili: “Lansing”
  • Swedish: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Swedish: “Lansing”
  • Tagalog: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Tagalog: “Lansing”
  • Tajik: “Лансинг”
  • Talysh: “Lansing”
  • Tamil: “லான்சிங்”
  • Tatar: “Ләнсиң”
  • Telugu: “లాన్సింగ్”
  • Thai: “แลนซิง”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Lansing”
  • Turkish: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Turkish: “Lansing”
  • Ukrainian: “Лансинг”
  • Ukrainian: “Лансінг”
  • Urdu: “لانسنگ، مشی گن”
  • Urdu: “لانسنگ”
  • Uzbek: “Lansing”
  • Venetian: “Lansing”
  • Vietnamese: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Vietnamese: “Lansing”
  • Volapük: “Lansing”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lansing”
  • Welsh: “Lansing, Michigan”
  • Welsh: “Lansing”
  • Western Frisian: “Lansing”
  • Western Mari: “Лэнсинг”
  • Western Panjabi: “لانسنگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “兰辛（密歇根州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “兰辛”
  • Yakut: “Лансинг”
  • Yakut: “Ленсинг”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘭辛”
  • “Lansings”

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