New Orleans

Way down yonder in New Orleans, you'll find the roots of jazz and a blossoming culture that is unlike anything else on Earth. Here, the laid-back atmosphere of the riverfront South has mixed with French sophistication, Spanish style, and African-American energy to create something greater than the sum of its parts.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: French Quarter and Uptown New Orleans.

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The is the oldest and most famous and visited neighborhood of New Orleans. It was laid out in French and Spanish colonial times in the 18th century.

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— Uptown is a large portion of New Orleans settled in the 19th century after the Louisiana Purchase, upriver from the older parts of the city around the and the .

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The , commonly just Marigny, is a hip neighborhood just "below" the . Best known for the great live music district on Frenchmen Street, the Marigny also offers neighborhood cafes & businesses, historic architecture, and more.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Central Business District and Tremé.

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The is the part of New Orleans similar to what many cities call "Downtown". Just "up" from the is the CBD. Like many other large American cities, this area has skyscrapers and modern office towers housing cooperate and regional offices; however some interesting 19th-century architecture is also preserved.

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is an old historically African-American and Créole neighborhood of New Orleans, just "back" from the . The is famous for its music, and has some attractions, music venues, and small inexpensive hotels.

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Mid-City is a portion of New Orleans in the center of the metropolitan area, about midway between the and Lake Pontchartrain. It is less visited by tourists than more famous areas like the , but has impressive attractions of its own.

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is the section of New Orleans that is at the far end of from the , between the of New Orleans and .

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The is a portion of New Orleans down the from the and the . Its boundaries are often debated. Most New Orleanians and the city's historic district office describe it as being bounded St.

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The District of New Orleans is the location of the city's famous Audubon Park including the Audubon Zoo, Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans.

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The 7th 8th and Upper 9th Wards section of New Orleans is very seldom visited by anyone outside the city. It is "back of town" from the and sections.

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The is a section of New Orleans, east of the neighborhood, north of the , and west St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.

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are sections of New Orleans near and along Lake Pontchartrain. The old neighborhoods along the riverfront, like the and are most popular with visitors.

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, sometimes called "New Orleans East", is a large area of New Orleans to the north east of the older central portion of the city.

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is a large section of New Orleans generally paid little or no attention by visitors. Nonetheless, has a variety of local restaurants -- mostly very reasonably priced for local clientele -- some inexpensive accommodations, and a few unique sights.

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is a neighborhood of New Orleans, . It is across the from the rest of New Orleans. Connected to the city by bridge and Ferry, it has attractions, restaurants, and bed & breakfasts in an area an easy trip to central New Orleans while retaining some of the feel of a small Louisiana town.

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is a section of New Orleans to the west of the and north from the downriver section of . Some locals also call it "the 3rd Ward", although legally that designation includes a wider area including much of the Central Business District.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Smoothie King Center and New Orleans Mint.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the Central Business District, adjacent to the .

Museum
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The operated in New Orleans, Louisiana, as a branch mint of the United States Mint from 1838 to 1861 and from 1879 to 1909. During its years of operation, it produced over 427 million gold and silver coins of nearly every American denomination, with a total face value of over US$307 million.

Park
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, formerly the Place d'Armes or Plaza de Armas, is a historic park in the of New Orleans, . It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, for its central role in the city's history, and as the site where in 1803 Louisiana was made United States territory pursuant to the Louisiana Purchase.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gretna and Mid-City New Orleans.

Town
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is the second-largest city in, and parish seat of, in the U.S. state of . lies on the west bank of the , just east and across the river from .

Suburb
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Mid-City is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: City Park Avenue, Toulouse Street, North Carrollton, Orleans Avenue, Bayou St.

Village
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is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , , United States. It is on the "Westbank" of the .

New Orleans

  • Type: City with 363,000 residents
  • Description: largest city of the state of Louisiana, United States
  • Also known as: “Big Easy”, “Çĕнě Орлеан”, “Çěнě Орлеан”, “Crescent City”, “Jaunā Orleāna”, “Jaunorleāna”, “La Nouvelle Orleans”, “La Nouvelle Orléans”, “La Nouvelle-Orleans”, “La Nouvelle-orléans”, “La Nouvelle-Orléauns”, “ma New Orleans”, “ma Niju Olin”, “N.O.”, “Nawlins”, “Neu Orleans”, “Neuva Orleans”, “New Orléans”, “new orleans louisiana”, “New Orleans Louisiana”, “New Orleans, LA”, “New-Orleans”, “Ngọc Lan”, “Nieuw Orleans”, “Nieuw-Orleans”, “Nieuw-Orléans”, “Nij-Orleans”, “Noa Orleans”, “NOLA”, “Nouvelle Orleans”, “Nouvelle Orléans”, “Nouvelle-Orleans”, “Nouvelle-Orléans”, “Nouvelle-Orléauns”, “Nouvelle-Orliauns”, “Nova Orleano”, “Nova Orléans”, “Nova-Orleans”, “Novèle-Orléans”, “Novorleano”, “Novum Aurelianum”, “Novum Cenabum”, “Nua Orléans”, “Nua-Orléans”, “Nueva Orleáns”, “Nueva Orléans”, “Nueva Orleans Luisiana”, “Ņuorleāna”, “Nuova Orleans”, “Nyu-Orlean şəhəri”, “Orleans Berri”, “Orleans Newydd”, “Orleans Parish, Louisiana”, “Orleans parrokia”, “Paroisse d’Orléans”, “Parroquia de Orleans”, “Tân Linh”, “The Big Easy”, “Yancuic Orleans”, “Yeni Orleans”, “Νέα Ορλεάνη, Λουιζιάνα”, “Нови Орлеан”, “Нови Орлеанс”, “Нью-Арлеан”, “Ню Орлеан”, “Ню Орлеанс”, “Ню Орлианс”, “Ню Орлийнз”, “Ню Орлийнс”, “Ню Орлинс”, “Ню Орлиънз”, “Ню-Орлеан”, “ნიუ-ორლეანი”, “Օռլեանս շրջան”, “מחוז אורלינס”, “ניו אורלינז”, “ניו-אורלינס”, “أورليان الجديدة‎”, “أورليانز الجديدة‎”, “نيو اورليانز”, “نيوأورليانز”, “نيوأورلينز، لويزيانا”, “نیو ارلئان”, “نیو اورلئانز”, “نیو اورلان”, “نیواورلان”, “نیواورلینز”, “يېڭى ئورلېئان”, “न्यू आर्लीन्स”, “न्यू ऑर्लिअन्स”, “நியூ ஓர்லியன்ஸ்”, “நியூ ஓர்லீன்ஸ்”, “นิวออร์ลีน”, “뉴 얼리언스”, “뉴 얼리언즈”, “뉴 올리언스”, “뉴 올리언즈”, “뉴얼리언스”, “뉴얼리언즈”, “뉴올리언즈”, “올리언스 사목구”, “オーリンズ郡”, “ニュー・オーリンズ”, “ニュー・オリンズ”, “ヌーヴェル＝オルレアン”, “ラ・ヌーヴェル＝オルレアン”, “奧爾良縣”, “新奥尔良市”, “新奧爾良城”, and “紐奧爾良”
  • Postal codes: 70112-70119, 70122, 70124-70131, 70139, 70142, 70143, 70145, 70146, 70148, 70150-70154, 70156-70167, 70170, 70172, 70174-70179, 70182, 70184-70187, 70189, 70190, and 70195
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: city in the United States, big city, consolidated city-county, and locality
  • Location: , , , , , ,
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Latitude
29.9575° or 29° 57′ 27″ north
Longitude
-90.0629° or 90° 3′ 47″ west
Population
363,000
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
IATA airport code
MSY
UN/LOCODE
US MSY
Open location code
76XFXW4P+XR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28110976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4335045
Wiki­data ID
Q34404
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“New Orleans” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “New Orleans”
  • Albanian: “New Orleans”
  • Amharic: “ኑ ኦርሌንዝ”
  • Arabic: “نيو أورلينز”
  • Aragonese: “Nueva Orleans”
  • Armenian: “Նոր Օռլեան”
  • Armenian: “Օռլեան շրջան”
  • Arpitan: “Novèla-Orlèans”
  • Asturian: “Nueva Orleans”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyu-Orlean”
  • Balinese: “New Orleans”
  • Basque: “New Orleans”
  • Bavarian: “New Orleans”
  • Belarusian: “Новы Арлеан”
  • Bengali: “নিউ অরলিন্স”
  • Bengali: “নিউ অর্লিন্স”
  • Bishnupriya: “ওরলেন্স পারিশ, লুইসিয়ানা”
  • Bishnupriya: “ওরলেন্স পারিশ”
  • Bosnian: “New Orleans”
  • Breton: “New Orleans”
  • Breton: “Orleañs Nevez”
  • Bulgarian: “Ню Орлиънс”
  • Cajun French: “La Nouvelle-Orléans”
  • Catalan: “Nova Orleans”
  • Cebuano: “Bag-ong Orleans”
  • Cebuano: “New Orleans”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیوئۆرلەنس”
  • Chechen: “Нью-Орлеан”
  • Chinese: “新奥尔良”
  • Chinese: “新奧爾良”
  • Chinese: “紐奧良”
  • Chuvash: “Çĕнĕ Орлеан”
  • Chuvash: “Нью-Орлеан”
  • Cornish: “New Orleans”
  • Corsican: “New Orleans”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nyu Orleans”
  • Croatian: “New Orleans, Louisiana”
  • Croatian: “New Orleans”
  • Czech: “New Orleans”
  • Dagbani: “New Orleans”
  • Danish: “New Orleans”
  • Dutch: “New Orleans”
  • Eastern Mari: “У Орлеан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيو اورلينز”
  • Emilian: “New Orleans”
  • Esperanto: “Nov-Orleano”
  • Estonian: “New Orleans”
  • Ewe: “New Orleans”
  • Extremaduran: “Nueva Orleans”
  • Faroese: “New Orleans”
  • Finnish: “New Orleans”
  • French: “La Nouvelle-Orléans” (historical)
  • Galician: “Nova Orleáns”
  • Georgian: “ახალი ორლეანი”
  • German: “New Orleans”
  • Gilaki: “نيۊاؤرلئان (لۊئيزيانا)”
  • Gilaki: “نيۊاؤرلئان”
  • Greek: “Νέα Ορλεάνη”
  • Guarani: “New Orleans”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂ ઓર્લિયન્સ”
  • Haitian: “New Orleans”
  • Haitian: “Nouvèl Òleyan”
  • Hausa: “New Orleans”
  • Hawaiian: “Nū ʻOlina”
  • Hebrew: “ניו אורלינס”
  • Hindi: “न्यू ओर्लियंस”
  • Hungarian: “New Orleans”
  • Icelandic: “New Orleans”
  • Ido: “New Orleans”
  • Ido: “Nov-Orleans”
  • Igbo: “New Orleans”
  • Inari Sami: “New Orleans”
  • Indonesian: “New Orleans”
  • Interlingua: “New Orleans”
  • Interlingue: “New Orleans”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓂᐅ ᐆᕐᓖᓐᔅ”
  • Irish: “New Orleans, Louisiana”
  • Irish: “New Orleans”
  • Italian: “New Orleans”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nyuu Aaliinz”
  • Japanese: “ニューオーリンズ”
  • Jèrriais: “La Nouvelle-Orliauns”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂ ಒರ್ಲೀನ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊಸ ಒರ್ಲೀನ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Жаңа Орлеан”
  • Kikuyu: “New Orleans”
  • Kirghiz: “Жаңы орлеан”
  • Kirghiz: “Жаңы Орлеан”
  • Komering: “New Orleans”
  • Korean: “뉴올리언스”
  • Kurdish: “New Orleans”
  • Ladin: “New Orleans”
  • Latin: “Nova Aurelia”
  • Latvian: “Ņūorleāna”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Orleans Nova, Louisiana”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Orleans Nova”
  • Literary Chinese: “新奧爾良”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujasis Orleanas”
  • Low German: “New Orleans”
  • Low German: “Niej Orleans”
  • Low German: “Niej-Orleans”
  • Luxembourgish: “New Orleans”
  • Macedonian: “Њу Орлеанс”
  • Malagasy: “New Orleans”
  • Malay: “New Orleans”
  • Malayalam: “ന്യൂ ഓർലിയൻസ് നഗരം”
  • Malayalam: “ന്യൂ ഓർലിയൻസ് നഗരവും പാരിഷും”
  • Maltese: “New Orleans”
  • Manx: “New Orleans”
  • Marathi: “न्यू ऑर्लिन्स”
  • Mazanderani: “نیواورلئان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “New Orleans”
  • Mirandese: “Nuoba Orleanes”
  • Mirandese: “Nuoba Orleans”
  • Moksha: “Од Орлэан”
  • Mongolian: “Нью-Орлеанс”
  • Mongolian: “Шинэ Орлеан”
  • Nauru: “New Orleans”
  • Navajo: “Tónteel Biihílį́ Hatsoh”
  • Navajo: “Tónteel Biihílį́ Hátsoh”
  • Northern Frisian: “New Orleans”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New Orleans”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “New Orleans”
  • Norwegian: “New Orleans”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “New Orleans”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Orleans”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Niwēorlēanas”
  • Ossetian: “Ног Орлеан”
  • Pampanga: “New Orleans, Louisiana”
  • Pampanga: “New Orleans”
  • Papiamento: “New Orleans”
  • Persian: “نیواورلئان، لوئیزیانا”
  • Persian: “نیواورلئان”
  • Picard: “La Novèle-Orléans”
  • Piemontese: “New Orleans”
  • Polish: “Nowy Orlean”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Orleães”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Orleans”
  • Quechua: “New Orleans”
  • Romanian: “New Orleans”
  • Russian: “Новый Орлеан”
  • Sanskrit: “न्‍यू आर्लीन्‍स”
  • Sardinian: “New Orleans”
  • Scots: “New Orleans”
  • Serbian: “Њу Орлеанс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “New Orleans”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Orleans Parish”
  • Sicilian: “New Orleans”
  • Silesian: “Nowy Uorlean”
  • Sinhala: “නිව් ඔර්ලියන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “New Orleans”
  • Slovenian: “New Orleans”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیو اورلئان”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Orleans”
  • Swahili: “New Orleans”
  • Swedish: “New Orleans”
  • Swiss German: “New Orleans”
  • Tagalog: “Bagong Orleans”
  • Tagalog: “New Orleans”
  • Tajik: “Орлеани Нав”
  • Talysh: “Nju Orlean”
  • Tamil: “நியூ ஓர்லென்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Яңа Орлеан”
  • Telugu: “న్యూ ఓర్లీన్స్”
  • Thai: “นิวออร์ลีนส์”
  • Turkish: “New Orleans”
  • Twi: “New Orleans”
  • Uighur: “Yéngi Orléan”
  • Ukrainian: “Новий Орлеан”
  • Urdu: “نیو اورلینز”
  • Uzbek: “Yangi orlean”
  • Uzbek: “Yangi Orlean”
  • Venetian: “New Orleans”
  • Veps: “Uz Orlean”
  • Veps: “Uz‘ Orlean”
  • Veps: “Uz’ Orlean”
  • Vietnamese: “New Orleans”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngọc Lân”
  • Vlax Romani: “New Orleans”
  • Volapük: “New Orleans”
  • Waray (Philippines): “New Orleans”
  • Welsh: “New Orleans”
  • Western Frisian: “New Orleans”
  • Western Mari: “У Орлеан”
  • Western Panjabi: “اورلینز پارش”
  • Wu Chinese: “新奥尔良”
  • Yiddish: “ניו ארלינס”
  • Yoruba: “New Orleans”
  • Yue Chinese: “紐奧良”
  • Zeeuws: “New Orleans”
  • “ma Nu Olan”
  • “New Orleans”
  • “Yankwik Orleans”

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