Lorain

Lorain is a city of 64,000 people 30 miles west of Cleveland in . A former industrial center for shipbuilding, auto manufacturing, and steel, like other Rust Belt cities, the city faces population decline and urban decay.
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  • Type: City with 65,800 residents
  • Description: city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States
  • Also known as: “Black River”, “Black River Settlement”, “Blackriver”, “Charlestown”, “Lorain, OH”, and “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Postal codes: 44052, 44053, and 44055

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lorain West Breakwater Light and Lofton Henderson Memorial Bridge.

Lighthouse
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The , also called the Lorain Harbor Light, is a lighthouse in Lorain, Ohio, United States. The light was built in 1917 on by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Bridge
is a cantilever truss bridge that carries Ohio State Route 611 over the Black River in Lorain, Ohio. The High-Level Bridge was proposed in 1937 as a bypass to the notoriously congested Erie Avenue swing bridge.

Lorain

Latitude
41.4673° or 41° 28′ 2″ north
Longitude
-82.1782° or 82° 10′ 42″ west
Population
65,800
Elevation
610 feet (186 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US LOR
Open location code
86HVFR8C+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154148950
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5161262
Wiki­data ID
Q609698
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lorain” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لورين”
  • Armenian: “Լորեյն”
  • Asturian: “Lorain (Ohio)”
  • Asturian: “Lorain”
  • Basque: “Lorain”
  • Belarusian: “Ларэйн”
  • Belarusian: “Лярэйн”
  • Bengali: “লোরাইন”
  • Bulgarian: “Лорейн”
  • Catalan: “Lorain”
  • Cebuano: “Lorain”
  • Chechen: “Лорейн”
  • Chinese: “Lorain”
  • Chinese: “洛兰”
  • Czech: “Lorain”
  • Dagbani: “Lorain”
  • Danish: “Lorain”
  • Dutch: “Lorain”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لورين”
  • Finnish: “Lorain”
  • French: “Lorain”
  • Georgian: “ლორეინი”
  • German: “Charleston”
  • German: “Lorain”
  • German: “Mouth of Black River”
  • Gilaki: “لؤرین (اؤهایؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “لؤرین”
  • Greek: “Λορέν”
  • Gujarati: “લોરેન”
  • Haitian: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Haitian: “Lorain”
  • Hebrew: “לוריין”
  • Hindi: “लोरेन”
  • Hungarian: “Lorain”
  • Indonesian: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Indonesian: “Lorain”
  • Interlingua: “Lorain”
  • Irish: “Lorain”
  • Italian: “Lorain”
  • Japanese: “ローレイン”
  • Japanese: “ロレイン”
  • Kannada: “ಲೋರೈನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Лорэйн”
  • Kirghiz: “Лорэйн”
  • Korean: “로레인”
  • Ladin: “Lorain”
  • Latvian: “Loreina”
  • Lithuanian: “Lorain (Ohajas)”
  • Lithuanian: “Loreinas (Ohajas)”
  • Lithuanian: “Loreinas”
  • Malagasy: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Malagasy: “Lorain”
  • Malay: “Lorain”
  • Marathi: “लॉरेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lorain”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lorain”
  • Norwegian: “Lorain”
  • Persian: “لورین، اوهایو”
  • Persian: “لورین”
  • Polish: “Lorain”
  • Portuguese: “Lorain”
  • Romanian: “Lorain”
  • Russian: “Лорейн”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lorain”
  • Serbian: “Лорејн”
  • Serbian: “Лорен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lorain”
  • Silesian: “Lorain”
  • Sinhala: “ලොරේන්”
  • Slovak: “Lorain”
  • Slovenian: “Lorain”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لورین، اوهایو”
  • Spanish: “Lorain”
  • Swedish: “Lorain”
  • Tagalog: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Tagalog: “Lorain”
  • Tamil: “லொரெய்ன்”
  • Tatar: “Лорейн”
  • Telugu: “లోరైన్”
  • Thai: “โลรองต์”
  • Turkish: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Turkish: “Lorain”
  • Ukrainian: “Лорейн”
  • Urdu: “لورین، اوہائیو”
  • Urdu: “لورین”
  • Uzbek: “Lorain”
  • Vietnamese: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Vietnamese: “Lorain”
  • Volapük: “Lorain”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lorain”
  • Welsh: “Lorain, Ohio”
  • Welsh: “Lorain”

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