Opelousas
Opelousas is the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, and is one of the former capitals of Louisiana. Opelousas is in the south Louisiana area known as "Acadiana", the center of Cajun culture in Louisiana.
- Type: Town with 23,200 residents
- Description: parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Les Opelousas”, “Opelousas (Luisiana)”, “Opelousas, LA”, “Opelousas, Louisiana”, “Опелусас (Луизиана)”, and “أوبلوساس (لويزيانا)”
- Postal codes: 70570 and 70571
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rural African American Museum and St. Landry Parish Airport.
Opelousas
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: St. Landry, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.5335° or 30° 32′ 1″ north
Longitude
-92.0815° or 92° 4′ 53″ west
Population
23,200
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
IATA airport code
OPL
UN/LOCODE
US OPL
Open location code
8629GWM9+C9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Opelousas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوبلوساس”
- Basque: “Opelousas”
- Bulgarian: “Опелусас”
- Catalan: “Opelousas”
- Cebuano: “Opelousas”
- Chechen: “Опелусас”
- Chinese: “奥珀卢萨斯”
- Chinese: “奧珀盧薩斯”
- Czech: “Opelousas”
- Dagbani: “Opelousas”
- Danish: “Opelousas”
- Dutch: “Opelousas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوبلوساس”
- French: “Opelousas”
- French: “Opélousas”
- German: “Opelousas”
- Gilaki: “آپلۊساس (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “آپلۊساس”
- Haitian: “Opelousas, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Opelousas”
- Hebrew: “אופלאוסס”
- Hungarian: “Opelousas”
- Irish: “Opelousas”
- Italian: “Opelousas”
- Japanese: “オペルーサス”
- Korean: “오펠루사스”
- Ladin: “Opelousas”
- Mazanderani: “آپلوسس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Opelousas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Opelousas”
- Norwegian: “Opelousas”
- Persian: “آپلوسس، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “آپلوسس”
- Polish: “Opelousas”
- Portuguese: “Opelousas”
- Russian: “Опелусас”
- Serbian: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Serbian: “Opelousas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opelousas”
- Silesian: “Opelousas”
- Slovak: “Opelousas”
- Slovenian: “Opelousas”
- South Azerbaijani: “آپلوسس، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Opelousas”
- Swahili: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Swahili: “Opelousas”
- Swedish: “Opelousas”
- Tatar: “Опелусас”
- Turkish: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Turkish: “Opelousas”
- Ukrainian: “Опелусас”
- Urdu: “اوپیلوساس، لوزیانا”
- Urdu: “اوپیلوساس”
- Uzbek: “Opelousa”
- Vietnamese: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Vietnamese: “Opelousas”
- Volapük: “Opelousas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Opelousas”
- Welsh: “Opelousas, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Opelousas”
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Places to explore: Opelousas and Veltin.
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