Salem

Salem, the capital of , is located in the between and . It is also the county seat of Marion County. Salem was established in the early 1800s as a farming community.
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  • Type: City with 155,000 residents
  • Description: seat of Marion County, and capital of Oregon, USA
  • Also known as: “Salem, OR” and “Salem, Oregon”
  • Postal codes: 97301-97303, 97305, 97306, and 97308-97314

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hallie Ford Museum of Art and Reed Opera House and McCornack Block Addition.

Museum
The is the museum of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, . It is the third largest art museum in . Opened in 1998, the facility is across the street from the Oregon State Capital in downtown Salem, on the western edge of the school campus.

Shopping center
Photo: Andrew Parodi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , more commonly known as The Reed Opera House or The Reed, is a historic building in downtown Salem, , .

University
The Willamette University School of Law is the law school of Willamette University. Located in Salem, , and founded in 1883, Willamette is the oldest law school in the .

Salem

Latitude
44.9392° or 44° 56′ 21″ north
Longitude
-123.0331° or 123° 1′ 59″ west
Population
155,000
Elevation
161 feet (49 metres)
Named after
Salem (Anglicized version of Biblical Hebrew שָׁלוֹם)
IATA airport code
SLE
United Nations Location Code
US SLE
Open location code
84PRWXQ8+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150956539
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5750162
Wiki­data ID
Q43919
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Salem” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Afrikaans: “Salem”
  • Albanian: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Albanian: “Salem”
  • Arabic: “Salem”
  • Arabic: “ساليم، أوريغون”
  • Arabic: “سايلم”
  • Aragonese: “Salem”
  • Armenian: “Սալեմ”
  • Asturian: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Asturian: “Salem”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salem”
  • Basque: “Salem”
  • Belarusian: “Сейлем”
  • Belarusian: “Сэйлем”
  • Bengali: “সালেম, অরেগন”
  • Bengali: “স্যালেম”
  • Bislama: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Bislama: “Salem”
  • Bosnian: “Salem”
  • Breton: “Salem”
  • Bulgarian: “Салем”
  • Bulgarian: “Сейлъм”
  • Catalan: “Salem”
  • Cebuano: “Salem”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەیڵم”
  • Chechen: “Сейлем”
  • Chinese: “Salem”
  • Chinese: “塞勒姆”
  • Chinese: “撒冷”
  • Chinese: “榭冷”
  • Chinese: “沙林”
  • Chinese: “賽倫”
  • Cornish: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Cornish: “Salem”
  • Czech: “Salem”
  • Danish: “Salem”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Salem, Oregon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Salem”
  • Dutch: “Salem”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سايلم، اوريجون”
  • Esperanto: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Esperanto: “Salem”
  • Estonian: “Salem”
  • Faroese: “Salem”
  • Finnish: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Finnish: “Salem”
  • French: “Salem”
  • Galician: “Salem, Oregón”
  • Galician: “Salem”
  • Georgian: “სალემი”
  • German: “Chemeketa”
  • German: “Salem (Oregon)”
  • German: “Salem”
  • Gilaki: “سیلم (اؤرگن)”
  • Gilaki: “سیلم”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌴𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌼, 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌽”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌴𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌼”
  • Greek: “Σάλεμ”
  • Greek: “Σέιλεμ”
  • Gujarati: “સેલમ”
  • Haitian: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Haitian: “Salem”
  • Hebrew: “סאלם”
  • Hebrew: “סיילם”
  • Hindi: “सलेम”
  • Hungarian: “Salem”
  • Icelandic: “Salem”
  • Ido: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Ido: “Salem”
  • Iloko: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Iloko: “Salem”
  • Indonesian: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Indonesian: “Salem”
  • Interlingua: “Salem”
  • Interlingue: “Salem”
  • Irish: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Irish: “Salem”
  • Italian: “Salem”
  • Japanese: “オレゴン州セイラム”
  • Japanese: “セーラム”
  • Japanese: “セイラム”
  • Kannada: “ಸೇಲಂ”
  • Kazakh: “Салем”
  • Kirghiz: “Салем”
  • Kirghiz: “Сейлем”
  • Komering: “Salem”
  • Korean: “세일럼”
  • Kurdish: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Kurdish: “Salem”
  • Ladin: “Salem”
  • Latvian: “Salema”
  • Latvian: “Seilema”
  • Ligurian: “Salem”
  • Lithuanian: “Salemas”
  • Lithuanian: “Seilemas”
  • Macedonian: “Сејлем”
  • Malagasy: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Malagasy: “Salem”
  • Malay: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Malay: “Salem”
  • Malayalam: “സേലം, ഒറിഗൺ”
  • Malayalam: “സേലം”
  • Marathi: “सेलम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salem”
  • Mirandese: “Salem”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سالم”
  • Navajo: “Chʼódeeníniitah Nílį́”
  • Newari: “सालेम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salem”
  • Norwegian: “Salem”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salem”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sibbeburh on Ƿaurēgum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sibbeburh”
  • Ossetian: “Сейлем”
  • Pali: “सालेम”
  • Pampanga: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Pampanga: “Salem”
  • Persian: “سیلم، اورگان”
  • Persian: “سیلم، اورگن”
  • Persian: “سیلم”
  • Piemontese: “Salem”
  • Polish: “Salem”
  • Portuguese: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Portuguese: “Salem”
  • Quechua: “Salem”
  • Romanian: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Romanian: “Salem”
  • Russian: “Салем”
  • Russian: “Сейлем”
  • Samogitian: “Salems”
  • Sanskrit: “सेलेम्, ओरेगन्”
  • Sanskrit: “सेलेम्”
  • Sardinian: “Salem”
  • Scots: “Salem”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Salem”
  • Serbian: “Salem”
  • Serbian: “Салем”
  • Serbian: “Сејлем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salem”
  • Sicilian: “Salem”
  • Sinhala: “සාලිම්”
  • Slovak: “Salem”
  • Slovenian: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Slovenian: “Salem”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیلم، اورقن”
  • Spanish: “Salem (Oregón)”
  • Spanish: “Salem”
  • Swahili: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Swahili: “Salem”
  • Swedish: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Swedish: “Salem”
  • Tagalog: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Tagalog: “Salem”
  • Talysh: “Sejlem”
  • Tamil: “சேலம்”
  • Tatar: “Сейлем”
  • Telugu: “సలేం”
  • Thai: “เซเลม”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Salem”
  • Turkish: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Turkish: “Salem”
  • Ukrainian: “Салем”
  • Ukrainian: “Сейлем”
  • Urdu: “سیلم، اوریگون”
  • Urdu: “سیلم”
  • Uzbek: “Salem”
  • Venetian: “Salem”
  • Vietnamese: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Vietnamese: “Salem”
  • Volapük: “Salem”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salem, Oregon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salem”
  • Welsh: “Salem, Oregon”
  • Welsh: “Salem”
  • Western Frisian: “Salem”
  • Western Mari: “Сейлем”
  • Western Panjabi: “سالم”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞勒姆 (俄勒冈州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞勒姆（俄勒冈州）”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙林”
  • “Salem”
  • “Salems”

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