Oswego
Oswego is a small city in Central New York on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oswego River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 16,900 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Oswego County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Chonaquen”, “Choneguen”, “Choueguen”, “Oswego, New York”, “Oswego, NY”, and “Sowego”
- Postal code: 13126
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Ontario and Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum.
Fort Ontario
Park
Photo: AdMeskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Ontario is an American historic bastion fort situated by the City of Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is owned by the state of New York and operated as a museum known as Fort Ontario State Historic Site.
Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum
Museum
Photo: Jojomojopete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum is a museum in Oswego, New York that tells the story of 982 mainly Jewish refugees who fled Europe in the U.S.
H. Lee White Marine Museum
Museum
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The H. Lee White Maritime Museum is located in Oswego, New York. It was founded in 1982 by Rosemary Sinnett Nesbitt, a local professor and the City of Oswego Historian.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include SUNY Oswego.
SUNY Oswego
Locality
State University of New York at Oswego is a public university in Oswego, New York, United States. It has a total student population of 6,756 and the campus size is 700 acres.
Oswego
- Categories: city in the United States, city in the state of New York, and locality
- Location: Oswego, Central New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.4548° or 43° 27′ 17″ northLongitude
-76.5094° or 76° 30′ 34″ westPopulation
16,900Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OSWOpen location code
87M5FF3R+W6OpenStreetMap ID
node 158272243OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Oswego” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوسويغو”
- Basque: “Oswego”
- Catalan: “Oswego”
- Cebuano: “Oswego (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, New York)”
- Cebuano: “Oswego”
- Chechen: “Освиго”
- Chinese: “Oswego”
- Chinese: “奧斯威戈 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “奧斯威戈”
- Chinese: “欧斯维格”
- Chinese: “歐斯維格”
- Croatian: “Oswego”
- Czech: “Oswego”
- Danish: “Oswego”
- Dutch: “Oswego”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوسويجو”
- Esperanto: “Oswego”
- French: “Oswego”
- German: “Oswego”
- Gilaki: “اسوگو”
- Haitian: “Oswego, New York”
- Haitian: “Oswego”
- Hebrew: “אוסוויגו”
- Hungarian: “Oswego”
- Irish: “Oswego”
- Italian: “Oswego”
- Japanese: “オスウィーゴ”
- Japanese: “オスウィーゴウ”
- Japanese: “オスウェゴ”
- Japanese: “ニューヨーク州”
- Korean: “오스위고”
- Ladin: “Oswego”
- Malagasy: “Oswego, New York”
- Malagasy: “Oswego”
- Mazanderani: “اوسویگو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oswego”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oswego”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oswego”
- Persian: “ازویگو، نیویورک”
- Persian: “ازویگو”
- Persian: “اوس ویگو”
- Polish: “Oswego”
- Portuguese: “Oswego”
- Russian: “Освего”
- Russian: “Осуиго”
- Serbian: “Освиго”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oswego, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oswego”
- Slovak: “Oswego”
- Slovenian: “Oswego”
- South Azerbaijani: “ازویقو، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Oswego (Nueva York)”
- Spanish: “Oswego”
- Swedish: “Oswego”
- Tajik: “Оусвего,Ню-Йорк”
- Tajik: “Оусвего”
- Tatar: “Освиго (Нью-Йорк)”
- Tatar: “Освиго”
- Turkish: “Oswego, New York”
- Turkish: “Oswego”
- Ukrainian: “Освіго”
- Ukrainian: “Освіґо”
- Urdu: “اوسویگو، نیو یارک”
- Volapük: “Oswego, New York”
- Volapük: “Oswego”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oswego, New York”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oswego”
- Welsh: “Oswego, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Oswego”
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