Oswego

Oswego is a small city in on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oswego River.
  • 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 (Nueva York)”, “Oswego, New York”, “Oswego, NY”, “Sowego”, “Освего”, “オスウィーゴウ”, and “奧斯威戈 (紐約州)”
  • Postal code: 13126

Places of Interest

Highlights: Fort Ontario and Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum.

Park
is a historic bastion fort used…

Museum
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum is located in Oswego, New York.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include SUNY Oswego.

Locality
State University of New York at Oswego is a public university in Oswego, New York, United States.

Oswego

Latitude
43.4548° or 43° 27′ 17″ north
Longitude
-76.5094° or 76° 30′ 34″ west
Population
16,900
Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US OSW
Open location code
87M5FF3R+W6
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Open­Street­Map feature
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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: “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: “オスウェゴ”
  • Korean: “오스위고”
  • Ladin: “Oswego”
  • Malagasy: “Oswego, New York”
  • Malagasy: “Oswego”
  • Mazanderani: “اوسویگو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oswego”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oswego”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oswego”
  • Norwegian: “Oswego”
  • Persian: “ازویگو، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “ازویگو”
  • Persian: “اوس ویگو”
  • Polish: “Oswego”
  • Portuguese: “Oswego”
  • Russian: “Осуиго”
  • Serbian: “Освиго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oswego, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oswego”
  • Slovak: “Oswego”
  • Slovenian: “Oswego”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ازویقو، نیویورک”
  • 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”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oswego, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oswego”
  • Welsh: “Oswego, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Oswego”

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