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Ohio's nickname is "the Heart of It All", purportedly because of its shape, its central location in the American Midwest, its mosaic of big commercial cities, small towns, industry and farmland, and its critical role in "America's Heartland".
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is the capital of the American state of Ohio and is located centrally within the state as the core of the area. Sited in an area where the Rust Belt, Bible Belt, Appalachia, and the Farm Belt meet, is a fusion of many different parts of America.

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is Ohio's third largest city and the largest metro region, and lies on the north bank of the Ohio River in Southwest Ohio in the United States of America.

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is a culturally diverse city on the shores of Lake Erie, one of the , in , Ohio, . Recreational, cultural and educational opportunities are abundant throughout .

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is usually defined as a 13-county region, with a population of more than 4 million, surrounding the Area and the mid-sized cities of , and .

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, for the purposes of this website, is the portion of the metropolitan area lying within Ohio. However, the term "Greater Cincinnati" more often refers to a larger area that also includes several counties in and a small part of southeast .

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is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Columbus, in the center of Ohio. Its population was about 2.1 million in 2017, of which almost 900,000 lived in Columbus.

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Scioto basins is a largely rural area of southwestern Ohio that includes the City of Dayton. Visitors come for its many state parks, and for the cultural attractions of Dayton.

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is a region in Ohio, consisting of the northwestern plains bordering the lake. It is sometimes referred to as the Firelands.

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includes Allen County, Van Wert County, Auglaize County, Mercer County, Ashland County, Crawford County, Richland County, Hardin County, Marion County, Morrow County and Wyandot County.

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includes rural areas of the state that border . This region is very hilly as it lies in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

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, or Northwestern Ohio, consists of multiple counties in the northwestern corner of the US state of Ohio. This area borders , , and northeastern .

Ohio

Latitude of center
40.2124° or 40° 12′ 45″ north
Longitude of center
-82.5952° or 82° 35′ 43″ west
Population
11,900,000
Elevation
951 feet (290 metres)
Abbreviation
“OH”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316982774
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5165418
Wiki­data ID
Q1397
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Ohio” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ohio”
  • Albanian: “Ohaio”
  • Albanian: “Ohio”
  • Amharic: “ኦሃዮ”
  • Arabic: “أوهايو”
  • Aragonese: “Ohio”
  • Armenian: “Օհայո”
  • Arpitan: “Ohio”
  • Asturian: “Ohio”
  • Atikamekw: “Ohio”
  • Aymara: “Ohio suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ohayo”
  • Balinese: “Ohio”
  • Bashkir: “Огайо”
  • Basque: “Ohio”
  • Bavarian: “Ohio”
  • Belarusian: “Агаё”
  • Belarusian: “Агая”
  • Bengali: “ওহাইও”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओहायो”
  • Bishnupriya: “ওহাইও”
  • Bislama: “Ohaeo”
  • Bislama: “Ohio”
  • Bosnian: “Ohio”
  • Breton: “Ohio”
  • Bulgarian: “Охайо”
  • Burmese: “အိုဟိုင်းယိုးပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Ohio”
  • Cebuano: “Ohio”
  • Central Bikol: “Ohio”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆھایۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیۆ”
  • Chavacano: “Ohio”
  • Chechen: “Огайо”
  • Cherokee: “ᎣᎭᏲ”
  • Chinese: “Ohio”
  • Chinese: “俄亥俄州”
  • Chuvash: “Огайо”
  • Cornish: “Ohio”
  • Corsican: “Ohio”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ogayo”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ohayo”
  • Croatian: “Ohio”
  • Czech: “Ohio”
  • Czech: “State of Ohio”
  • Dagbani: “Ohio”
  • Danish: “Ohio”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ohio”
  • Dutch: “OH”
  • Dutch: “Ohio”
  • Eastern Mari: “Огайо”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوهايو”
  • Esperanto: “OH”
  • Esperanto: “Ohio”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Ohio”
  • Estonian: “Ohio”
  • Ewe: “Ohio”
  • Faroese: “Ohio”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ohio”
  • Fijian: “Ohio”
  • Finnish: “Ohio”
  • French: “Ohio”
  • Gagauz: “Ohio”
  • Galician: “Ohio”
  • Georgian: “ოჰაიო”
  • German: “Ohio”
  • Gilaki: “اؤهايؤ”
  • Gothic: “𐍉𐌷𐌰𐌾𐍉”
  • Greek: “Οχάιο”
  • Guarani: “Ohio”
  • Gujarati: “ઓહિયો”
  • Haitian: “Owayo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ohio”
  • Hausa: “Ohio”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Ohaio”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻOhaio”
  • Hebrew: “אוהיו”
  • Hindi: “ओहायो”
  • Hindi: “ओहियो”
  • Hungarian: “Ohio”
  • Icelandic: “Ohio”
  • Ido: “Ohio”
  • Igbo: “Ohaïyo”
  • Iloko: “Ohio”
  • Inari Sami: “Ohio”
  • Indonesian: “Ohio”
  • Interlingua: “Ohio”
  • Interlingue: “Ohio”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐅᓵᐃᐅ”
  • Inupiaq: “Ohio”
  • Irish: “Ohio”
  • Italian: “Ohio”
  • Japanese: “オハイオ州”
  • Javanese: “Ohio”
  • Kabiyè: “Ohiyo”
  • Kabyle: “Ohio”
  • Kalmyk: “Өхәй”
  • Kannada: “ಒಹಾಯೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಓಹಿಯೋ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Огайо”
  • Kashmiri: “اوہایو”
  • Kazakh: “Огайо”
  • Kirghiz: “Огайо (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Огайо”
  • Kölsch: “Ohio”
  • Komering: “Ohio”
  • Korean: “오하이오”
  • Korean: “오하이오주”
  • Kurdish: “Ohio”
  • Ladin: “Ohio”
  • Ladino: “Ohio”
  • Lao: “ໂອໄຮໂອ”
  • Latin: “Ohium”
  • Latvian: “Ohaio”
  • Ligurian: “Ohio”
  • Limburgan: “Ohio”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ohio”
  • Literary Chinese: “俄亥俄州”
  • Lithuanian: “Ohajas”
  • Lojban: “o’ai,os”
  • Lojban: “o’ai”
  • Lojban: “o’aios”
  • Lombard: “Ohio”
  • Low German: “Ohio”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ohio”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ohio”
  • Macedonian: “Охајо”
  • Maithili: “ओहायो”
  • Malagasy: “Ohio”
  • Malay: “Ohio”
  • Malayalam: “ഒഹായോ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯣꯍꯤꯌꯣ”
  • Manx: “Ohio”
  • Maori: “Oheio”
  • Maori: “Ohio”
  • Marathi: “ओहायो”
  • Mazanderani: “اوهایو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ohio”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ohio”
  • Minangkabau: “Ohio”
  • Mingrelian: “ოჰაიოშ შტატი”
  • Mongolian: “Охайо”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أوهايو”
  • Nauru: “Ohio”
  • Navajo: “Bįįhtó Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “ओहायो”
  • Newari: “ओहायो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ohio”
  • Northern Luri: “اوهایو”
  • Northern Sami: “Ohio”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “OH”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ohio”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ohio”
  • Norwegian: “Ohio”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ohio”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܗܐܝܘ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ohio”
  • Ossetian: “Огайо”
  • Pali: “ओहायो”
  • Pampanga: “Ohio”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਹਾਇਓ”
  • Papiamento: “Ohio”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Ohio”
  • Persian: “اوهایو”
  • Picard: “Ohio”
  • Piemontese: “Ohio”
  • Polish: “Ohio”
  • Portuguese: “Ohio”
  • Pushto: “اوهايو”
  • Pushto: “اوهایو”
  • Quechua: “Ohio suyu”
  • Romanian: “Ohio”
  • Romansh: “Ohio”
  • Russia Buriat: “Огайо”
  • Russia Buriat: “Оһайо”
  • Russian: “Огайо”
  • Rusyn: “Огайо”
  • Samogitian: “Ohajos”
  • Sanskrit: “ओहायो”
  • Sanskrit: “ओहैओ”
  • Sardinian: “Ohio”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Ohio”
  • Scots: “Ohio”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ohio”
  • Serbian: “Охајо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ohio”
  • Sicilian: “Ohio”
  • Silesian: “Ohio”
  • Sindhi: “اوهايو”
  • Sinhala: “ඔහායෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ඔහියෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ohio”
  • Slovak: “Ohio”
  • Slovenian: “Ohio”
  • Somali: “Ohio”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوهایو ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوهایو”
  • Spanish: “Cuna de la aviación”
  • Spanish: “El estado de Buckeye”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Ohio”
  • Spanish: “OH”
  • Spanish: “Ohio (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Ohio”
  • Swahili: “Ohio”
  • Swedish: “Ohio”
  • Tagalog: “Ohio”
  • Tajik: “Огайо”
  • Tajik: “Оҳайо”
  • Talysh: “Ohajo”
  • Talysh: “Ohayo”
  • Tamil: “ஒகையோ”
  • Tamil: “ஓஹியோ”
  • Tatar: “Оһайо”
  • Telugu: “ఒహాయో”
  • Thai: “รัฐโอไฮโอ”
  • Thai: “เฮา เกียง”
  • Tibetan: “ཨོ་ཧེའོ།”
  • Tumbuka: “Ohio”
  • Turkish: “OH”
  • Turkish: “Ohio eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Ohio, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Ohio”
  • Turkish: “State of Ohio”
  • Turkish: “US-OH”
  • Uighur: “Oxayo Shtati”
  • Ukrainian: “Огайо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ohio”
  • Urdu: “اوہائیو”
  • Uzbek: “Ogayo”
  • Venetian: “Ohio”
  • Vietnamese: “Ôhaiô”
  • Vietnamese: “Ohio”
  • Vlaams: “Ohio”
  • Vlax Romani: “Ohio”
  • Volapük: “Ohio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ohio”
  • Welsh: “Ohio”
  • Western Armenian: “Օհայo”
  • Western Armenian: “Օհայիօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Ohio”
  • Western Mari: “Огайо”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوہائیو”
  • Wu Chinese: “俄亥俄州”
  • Xhosa: “I-Ohayo”
  • Yakut: “Оhайо”
  • Yakut: “Огайо”
  • Yiddish: “אהאיא”
  • Yoruba: “Ohio”
  • Yue Chinese: “俄亥俄州”
  • Zeeuws: “Ohio”
  • Zhuang: “Ohio”
  • “ma Owajo”
  • “Ohajos”
  • “Ohio”
  • “ओहायो”

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