Lorain
Lorain is a city of 64,000 people 30 miles west of Cleveland in Northeast Ohio. A former industrial center for shipbuilding, auto manufacturing, and steel, like other Rust Belt cities, the city faces population decline and urban decay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Lorain West Breakwater Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Ronnie44052, CC BY 2.5.
The Lorain West Breakwater Light, also called the Lorain Harbor Light, is a lighthouse in Lorain, Ohio, United States. The light was built in 1917 on Lake Erie by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Lorain
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.4673° or 41° 28′ 2″ northLongitude
-82.1782° or 82° 10′ 42″ westPopulation
65,800Elevation
610 feet (186 metres)United Nations Location Code
US LOROpen location code
86HVFR8C+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 154148950OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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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