Olympia

Olympia is the capital of Washington State, and the seat of Thurston County in the region. The small city of 56,000 has a diverse economic base, and is a breeding ground for alternative culture in the , having spawned or influenced many of the region's better-known personalities.
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  • Type: City with 55,600 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Thurston County, Washington, United States, and Washington federated state capital city
  • Also known as: “Marshville”, “Olympia, WA”, and “Olympia, Washington”
  • Postal codes: 98501, 98502, 98504-98508, 98512, 98513, 98516, and 98599
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Washington State Capitol and Temple of Justice.

Government building
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The in Olympia is the home of the government of the state of . It contains the chambers of the Washington State Legislature, offices for the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and state treasurer.

Government building
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The is a government building in Olympia, Washington, where sessions of the Washington Supreme Court are convened. It also houses the state's official law library, and formerly housed the office of the Attorney-General of Washington.

Public building
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The Building is a historic building in downtown Olympia, Washington. It was built in 1892 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tumwater.

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is a city in , United States. The population was 25,350 at the 2020 census. The city is situated near where the enters , the southernmost point of ; it also borders the state capital of Olympia to the north.

Olympia

Latitude
47.0451° or 47° 2′ 42″ north
Longitude
-122.895° or 122° 53′ 42″ west
Population
55,600
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
IATA airport code
OLM
United Nations Location Code
US OLM
Open location code
84VV24W3+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2638988934
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5805687
Wiki­data ID
Q42735
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Olympia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Afrikaans: “Olympia”
  • Albanian: “Olympia”
  • Arabic: “أولمبيا”
  • Arabic: “اولمبيا، واشنطن”
  • Arabic: “اولمپيا، واشنطن”
  • Aragonese: “Olympia”
  • Armenian: “Օլիմպիա”
  • Asturian: “Olympia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Olimpiya”
  • Basque: “Olympia”
  • Belarusian: “Алімпія (Вашынгтон)”
  • Belarusian: “Алімпія”
  • Bengali: “অলিম্পিয়া, ওয়াশিংটন”
  • Bengali: “অলিম্পিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Olympia”
  • Breton: “Olympia”
  • Bulgarian: “Олимпия”
  • Catalan: “Olympia”
  • Cebuano: “Olympia”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆڵیمپیا”
  • Chechen: “Олимпи”
  • Chinese: “Olympia”
  • Chinese: “奥林匹亚”
  • Chinese: “奧林匹亞”
  • Cornish: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Cornish: “Olympia”
  • Corsican: “Olympia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Olimpiya”
  • Croatian: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Croatian: “Olympia”
  • Czech: “Olympia”
  • Dagbani: “Olympia”
  • Danish: “Olympia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Olympia, Washington”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Olympia”
  • Dutch: “Olympia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اولمبيا”
  • Esperanto: “Olympia”
  • Estonian: “Olympia”
  • Faroese: “Olympia”
  • Finnish: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Finnish: “Olympia”
  • French: “Olympia”
  • Galician: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Galician: “Olympia”
  • Georgian: “ოლიმპია”
  • German: “Olympia”
  • Gilaki: “اؤلمپيا (واشينگتن)”
  • Gilaki: “اؤلمپيا”
  • Gothic: “𐍉𐌻𐌹𐌼𐍀𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ολύμπια”
  • Gujarati: “ઑલમ્પિયા”
  • Haitian: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Haitian: “Olympia”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Olumepia”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻOlumepia”
  • Hebrew: “אולימפיה”
  • Hindi: “ओलंपिया,वाशिंगटन”
  • Hindi: “ओलंपिया”
  • Hungarian: “Olympia”
  • Icelandic: “Olympia”
  • Ido: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Ido: “Olympia”
  • Iloko: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Iloko: “Olympia”
  • Indonesian: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Indonesian: “Olympia”
  • Interlingua: “Olympia”
  • Interlingue: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Interlingue: “Olympia”
  • Irish: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Irish: “Olympia”
  • Italian: “Olympia”
  • Japanese: “オリンピア”
  • Japanese: “オリンピア市”
  • Kannada: “ಒಲಂಪಿಯಾ, ವಾಷಿಂಗ್ಟನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಒಲಂಪಿಯಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Олимпия”
  • Korean: “올림피아 시”
  • Korean: “올림피아”
  • Korean: “올림피아시”
  • Kurdish: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Kurdish: “Olympia”
  • Ladin: “Olympia”
  • Latin: “Olympia”
  • Latin: “Urbs Olympiae”
  • Latvian: “Olimpija”
  • Ligurian: “Olympia”
  • Lithuanian: “Olimpija”
  • Lombard: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Lombard: “Olympia”
  • Macedonian: “Олимпија”
  • Malagasy: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Malagasy: “Olympia”
  • Malay: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Malay: “Olympia”
  • Malayalam: “ഒളിമ്പിയ, വാഷിങ്ടൺ”
  • Malayalam: “ഒളിമ്പിയ”
  • Marathi: “ऑलिंपिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Olympia”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أوليمپيا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Olympia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Olympia i Washington”
  • Norwegian: “Olympia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Olympia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Olimptūn on Hwæsinglonde”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Olimptūn”
  • Ossetian: “Олимпи”
  • Pali: “ओलम्पिया”
  • Persian: “المپیا”
  • Persian: “الیمپیا”
  • Persian: “اولمپیا، واشینگتن”
  • Piemontese: “Olympia”
  • Polish: “Olympia”
  • Portuguese: “Olímpia”
  • Portuguese: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Portuguese: “Olympia”
  • Quechua: “Olympia”
  • Romanian: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Romanian: “Olympia”
  • Russian: “Олимпия, Вашингтон”
  • Russian: “Олимпия”
  • Rusyn: “Олимпия, Вашингтон”
  • Rusyn: “Олимпия”
  • Samogitian: “Olimpėjė”
  • Sanskrit: “ओलम्पिया”
  • Sardinian: “Olympia”
  • Scots: “Olympia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Olympia”
  • Serbian: “Olympia”
  • Serbian: “Олимпија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Olympia”
  • Sinhala: “ඔලිම්පියා”
  • Slovak: “Olympia”
  • Slovenian: “Olympia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اولمپیا، واشینقتون”
  • Spanish: “Olympia (Washington)”
  • Spanish: “Olympia”
  • Swahili: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Swahili: “Olympia”
  • Swedish: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Swedish: “Olympia”
  • Tagalog: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Tagalog: “Olympia”
  • Tajik: “Олимпиа, Вашингтон”
  • Tajik: “Олимпиа”
  • Talysh: “Olimpija”
  • Talysh: “Olimpiya”
  • Tamil: “ஒலிம்பியா, வாசிங்டன்”
  • Tamil: “ஒலிம்பியா”
  • Tatar: “Олимпия”
  • Telugu: “ఒలింపియా”
  • Thai: “โอลิมเปีย”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Olympia”
  • Tumbuka: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Tumbuka: “Olympia”
  • Turkish: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Turkish: “Olympia”
  • Ukrainian: “Олимпія”
  • Ukrainian: “Олімпія”
  • Urdu: “اولمپیا، واشنگٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Olympia”
  • Venetian: “Olympia”
  • Vietnamese: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Vietnamese: “Olympia”
  • Volapük: “Olympia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Olympia, Washington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Olympia”
  • Welsh: “Olympia, Washington”
  • Welsh: “Olympia”
  • Western Frisian: “Olympia”
  • Western Mari: “Олимпи”
  • Western Panjabi: “اولمپیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥林匹亚（华盛顿州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥林匹亚”
  • Yakut: “Олимпия”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧林匹亞”
  • “ma tomo Olinpija”
  • “Olimpėjė”
  • “Olympia”

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