Oshawa
Oshawa is a city of 160,000 people in southern Ontario, 50 km east of Toronto. Oshawa has been a centre of Canada's automotive industry since the early 20th century, and is home to the Canadian Automotive Museum.
- Type: City with 175,000 residents
- Description: city in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Oshawa (Ontario)”, “Oshawa, ON”, and “Όσαουα”
- Neighbors: Clarington, Scugog, and Whitby
Places of Interest
Highlights: Parkwood Estate and Tribute Communities Centre.
Parkwood Estate
Park
Photo: Robert AD Scott, Public domain.
Oshawa
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario, big city, and locality
- Location: Oshawa, Durham, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.8976° or 43° 53′ 51″ north
Longitude
-78.8635° or 78° 51′ 49″ west
Population
175,000
Elevation
105 metres (344 feet)
IATA airport codes
YOO and QWA
UN/LOCODE
CA OSH
Open location code
87M3V4XP+2H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Oshawa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oshawa”
- Albanian: “Oshawa”
- Arabic: “أوشاوا”
- Asturian: “Oshawa”
- Atikamekw: “Oshawa”
- Azerbaijani: “Oşava”
- Belarusian: “Ошава”
- Bengali: “অশাওয়া”
- Catalan: “Oshawa”
- Cebuano: “Oshawa”
- Chinese: “奥沙华”
- Chinese: “奥沙瓦”
- Chinese: “奧沙華”
- Czech: “Oshawa”
- Dagbani: “Oshawa”
- Danish: “Oshawa”
- Dimli (individual language): “Oshawa, Ontario”
- Dimli (individual language): “Oshawa”
- Dutch: “Oshawa”
- Dzongkha: “ཨོ་ཤ་ཝ། Oshawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوشاوا”
- Esperanto: “Oshawa”
- Estonian: “Oshawa”
- Finnish: “Oshawa”
- French: “Oshawa”
- Georgian: “ოშავა”
- German: “Oshawa”
- Greek: “Όσαβα”
- Gujarati: “ઓશાવા”
- Hausa: “Oshawa”
- Hebrew: “אושווה”
- Hindi: “ओशावा”
- Hungarian: “Oshawa”
- Icelandic: “Oshawa”
- Indonesian: “Oshawa”
- Irish: “Oshawa”
- Italian: “Oshawa”
- Japanese: “オシャワ”
- Kannada: “ಒಶವಾ”
- Korean: “오샤와”
- Kurdish: “Oshawa”
- Latvian: “Ošava”
- Lithuanian: “Ošava”
- Malagasy: “Oshawa”
- Malay: “Oshawa”
- Marathi: “ओशावा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oshawa”
- Norwegian: “Oshawa”
- Ossetian: “Ошавæ”
- Persian: “اوشاوا”
- Polish: “Oshawa”
- Portuguese: “Oshawa”
- Russian: “Ошава”
- Serbian: “Ošava”
- Serbian: “Ошава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oshawa”
- Sinhala: “ඕෂාව”
- Slovak: “Oshawa”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوشاوا”
- Spanish: “Oshawa”
- Swahili: “Oshawa”
- Swedish: “Oshawa”
- Tagalog: “Oshawa, Ontario”
- Tagalog: “Oshawa”
- Tamil: “ஒஷாவா”
- Tatar: “Ошава”
- Telugu: “ఓషావా”
- Thai: “ออสฮาว่า”
- Turkish: “Oshawa”
- Ukrainian: “Ошава”
- Urdu: “اوشاوا”
- Uzbek: “Oshawa.o’zbek”
- Uzbek: “Oshawa”
- Venetian: “Oshawa”
- Vietnamese: “Oshawa”
- Volapük: “Oshawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oshawa”
- Welsh: “Oshawa”
- Western Panjabi: “اوشاوا”
- “ma tomo Asawa”
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