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Oshawa

Oshawa is a city of 160,000 people in southern , 50 km east of . Oshawa has been a centre of Canada's automotive industry since the early 20th century, and is home to the Canadian Automotive Museum.
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  • Type: City with 175,000 residents
  • Description: city in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada
  • Also known as: “Oshawa, ON” and “Oshawa, Ontario”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parkwood Estate and Tribute Communities Centre.

Park
Photo: Robert AD Scott, Public domain.
The , located in Oshawa, , was the residence of Samuel McLaughlin and was home to the McLaughlin family from 1917 until 1972. The residence was designed by Darling and Pearson, a noted architectural firm, with construction starting in 1916.

Sports venue
Photo: Jfvoll, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , formerly known as the General Motors Centre or GM Centre, GMC for short, is a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Oshawa, , Canada, which opened in November 2006.

Library
Photo: Robert Bell, CC BY 2.0.
Oshawa Public Libraries is a public library system that serves a population of more than 170,000 people in the City of Oshawa, , Canada. OPL has 4 branches, each serving its respective region of Oshawa, and sharing its collections in common amongst all the branches within the system.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whitby.

Photo: The Cosmonaut, CC BY-SA 2.5 ca.
, a suburb directly west of Oshawa, is in the heart of the , 48 km east of , in the eastern part of the of . It has a population of 140,000 people.

Oshawa

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
United Nations Location Code
CA OSH
Open location code
87M3V4XP+2H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278031207
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6094578
Wiki­data ID
Q211867
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Oshawa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oshawa”
  • Albanian: “Oshawa”
  • Arabic: “أوشاوا”
  • Arabic: “اوشاوا”
  • 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”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوشاوا”
  • Esperanto: “Oshawa”
  • Estonian: “Oshawa”
  • Finnish: “Oshawa”
  • French: “Oshawa”
  • Georgian: “ოშავა”
  • German: “Oshawa”
  • Greek: “Όσαβα”
  • Greek: “Όσαουα”
  • 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”
  • Lithuanian: “Oshawa”
  • Malagasy: “Oshawa”
  • Malay: “Oshawa”
  • Marathi: “ओशावा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oshawa”
  • Norwegian: “Oshawa”
  • Ossetian: “Ошавæ”
  • Persian: “اوشاوا”
  • Polish: “Oshawa”
  • Portuguese: “Oshawa”
  • Russian: “Ошава”
  • Serbian: “Ošava”
  • Serbian: “Oshawa”
  • Serbian: “Ошава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oshawa”
  • Sinhala: “ඕෂාව”
  • Slovak: “Oshawa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوشاوا”
  • Spanish: “Oshawa (Ontario)”
  • 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”

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