Louisville

Louisville, the largest city in , is known for the Kentucky Derby horserace and as the "gateway to the south" from southern Indiana. It's a lively mid-sized city with an excellent dining scene, ample opportunities for bourbon tasting, and interesting public art.
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  • Type: City with 633,000 residents
  • Description: county seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Ciudad Derby”, “Derby City”, “Kentuckiana”, “Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky”, “Louisville, Kentucky”, “Louisville, KY”, “Luisvil”, “Luisvila”, “Lūisvile”, “Luivilo”, “Luizvilis”, “Mouth of Beargrass”, “Λοούβελ”, “Λούισβιλ, Κεντάκι”, “Луивил, округ Џеферсон”, “Луисвилль”, “Луйзвилл, Кентуки”, “Лујвил”, “לואיסוויל”, “لويسفيل، كنتاكي”, “لوي‌فيل، كنتكي”, “لویی ویل”, “لویی ویل، کنتاکی”, “লুইজভিল”, “ลุยวิลล์”, “หลุยส์วิลล์”, “ルイスヴィル”, and “ルイスビル”
  • Postal codes: 40201-40225, 40228, 40229, 40231-40233, 40241-40243, 40245, 40250-40253, 40255-40259, 40261, 40266, 40268-40270, 40272, 40280-40283, 40285, 40287, and 40289-40299

Places of Interest

Highlights include KFC Yum! Center and Palace Theatre.

Stadium
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The is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is named after the KFC restaurant chain and Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC.

Theater building
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The is a music venue in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, located in the city's theater district, on the east side of Fourth Street, between Broadway and Chestnut Street.

Museum
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The is a non-profit museum and cultural center dedicated to boxer Muhammad Ali in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Ali, a native of Louisville, and his wife Lonnie Ali founded the museum in 2005.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jeffersonville and Russell.

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, often called "Jeff" by locals, is the county seat of Clark County in , on the opposite side of the Ohio River from Louisville, and connected to Louisville by the Kennedy, Lincoln, and Lewis and Clark Bridges.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood immediately west of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. It is nicknamed "Louisville's Harlem". It was named for renowned African American educator and native, Harvey Clarence Sr.

Hamlet
is a neighborhood three miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA. is also a general term for an area of Louisville from the Original Highlands to St Joseph and Bradley neighborhoods that were predominantly settled by Germans.

Louisville

Latitude
38.2542° or 38° 15′ 15″ north
Longitude
-85.7594° or 85° 45′ 34″ west
Population
633,000
Elevation
466 feet (142 metres)
IATA airport code
SDF
United Nations Location Code
US LUI
Open location code
86CP763R+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153369793
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4299276
Wiki­data ID
Q43668
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Louisville” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Afrikaans: “Louisville”
  • Albanian: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Albanian: “Louisville”
  • Arabic: “لويفيل”
  • Aragonese: “Louisville”
  • Armenian: “Լուիսվիլ”
  • Asturian: “Louisville”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luisvill”
  • Balinese: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Bambara: “Louisville”
  • Basque: “Louisville”
  • Belarusian: “Луісвіл”
  • Belarusian: “Луісьвіл”
  • Bengali: “লুভল”
  • Bosnian: “Louisville”
  • Breton: “Louisville”
  • Bulgarian: “Луивил”
  • Bulgarian: “Луисвил”
  • Catalan: “Louisville”
  • Cebuano: “Louisville (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Kentucky)”
  • Cebuano: “Louisville”
  • Chechen: “Луисвилл”
  • Chinese: “路易斯維爾”
  • Chinese: “路易斯维尔”
  • Chinese: “路易維爾”
  • Cornish: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Cornish: “Louisville”
  • Czech: “Louisville”
  • Dagbani: “Louisville”
  • Danish: “Louisville”
  • Dutch: “Louisville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لويفيل”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لويڤيل”
  • Emilian: “Louisville”
  • Esperanto: “Louisville”
  • Estonian: “Louisville”
  • Finnish: “Louisville”
  • French: “Louisville”
  • Galician: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Galician: “Louisville”
  • Georgian: “ლუისვილი”
  • German: “Louisville”
  • Gilaki: “لۊئي‌ويل”
  • Greek: “Λούιβιλ”
  • Greek: “Λούισβιλ”
  • Gujarati: “લુઇસવિલ”
  • Haitian: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Haitian: “Louisville”
  • Hebrew: “לואיוויל”
  • Hindi: “लुईविल”
  • Hungarian: “Louisville”
  • Icelandic: “Louisville”
  • Ido: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Ido: “Louisville”
  • Indonesian: “Louisville (Kentucky)”
  • Indonesian: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Interlingua: “Louisville”
  • Interlingue: “Louisville”
  • Irish: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Irish: “Louisville”
  • Italian: “Louisville”
  • Japanese: “ルイヴィル”
  • Japanese: “ルイビル”
  • Kannada: “ಲೂಯಿಸ್​ವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kashmiri: “لویی وِل، کینٹکی”
  • Kashmiri: “لویی وِل”
  • Kazakh: “Луйзвилл”
  • Kirghiz: “Луйзвилл”
  • Komering: “Louisville”
  • Korean: “루이빌”
  • Korean: “루이즈빌”
  • Kurdish: “Louisville, Kentakî”
  • Kurdish: “Louisville”
  • Ladin: “Louisville”
  • Latin: “Ludovicopolis”
  • Latvian: “Lūivila”
  • Lithuanian: “Luisvilis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Louisville”
  • Macedonian: “Луисвил”
  • Malay: “Louisville”
  • Malay: “لوءيۏيل”
  • Maltese: “Louisville”
  • Marathi: “लुईव्हिल”
  • Mazanderani: “لویی‌ویل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Louisville”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუიზვილი”
  • Moksha: “Луисвилл”
  • Mongolian: “Луисвилл”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لويڤيل”
  • Navajo: “Chéłgaidahiilíní”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Louisville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Louisville”
  • Norwegian: “Louisville”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Louisville”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hloðwigeswic on Centuccīge”
  • Ossetian: “Луисвилл”
  • Pampanga: “Louisville-Jefferson County (balance)”
  • Pampanga: “Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky”
  • Pampanga: “Louisville-Jefferson County”
  • Persian: “لوییویل، کنتاکی”
  • Persian: “لویی‌ویل”
  • Piemontese: “Louisville”
  • Polish: “Louisville”
  • Portuguese: “Louisville”
  • Romanian: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Romanian: “Louisville”
  • Russian: “Луисвилл”
  • Sardinian: “Louisville”
  • Scots: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Scots: “Louisville”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Louisville”
  • Serbian: “Луивил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Louisville”
  • Silesian: “Louisville”
  • Sinhala: “ලුවිස්විල්”
  • Slovak: “Louisville”
  • Slovenian: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Slovenian: “Louisville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوئیزویل، کنتاکی”
  • Spanish: “Louisville”
  • Swahili: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Swahili: “Louisville”
  • Swedish: “Louisville”
  • Tagalog: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Tagalog: “Louisville”
  • Tajik: “Луисвилл”
  • Talysh: “Luisvill”
  • Tamil: “லூயிவில்”
  • Tatar: “Луивилл”
  • Telugu: “లూయీవిల్”
  • Thai: “ลุยส์วิลล์”
  • Turkish: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Louisville”
  • Turkmen: “Luiswille”
  • Ukrainian: “Луїсвілл”
  • Urdu: “لوئی ویل، کینٹکی”
  • Urdu: “لوئیزویل، کینٹکی”
  • Urdu: “لوئیزویل”
  • Uzbek: “Louisville”
  • Uzbek: “Luisvill”
  • Venetian: “Louisville”
  • Veps: “Luisvill”
  • Vietnamese: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Vietnamese: “Louisville”
  • Vlax Romani: “Louisville”
  • Volapük: “Louisville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Louisville”
  • Welsh: “Louisville, Kentucky”
  • Welsh: “Louisville”
  • Western Armenian: “Լուիզվիլ”
  • Western Mari: “Луисвилл”
  • Wu Chinese: “路易维尔（肯塔基州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “路易维尔”
  • Yoruba: “Louisville”
  • Yue Chinese: “路易斯維爾”
  • “Louisville”

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