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Ottawa

Ottawa is 's capital. With over a million citizens, it is Canada's fourth-largest city, and Ontario's second-largest city. Across the Ottawa River is , .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Library and Archives Canada and Canadian Museum of Nature.

Library
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is the federal institution tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of .

Museum
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The is a national natural history museum based in Canada's . The museum's exhibitions and public programs are housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, a 18,910-square-metre structure in Ottawa, .

Art gallery
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The , located in the capital city of Ottawa, , is Canada's national art museum. The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres, with 12,400 square metres of space used for exhibiting art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gatineau and Centretown.

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is a city in the region of , on the north shore of the Ottawa River, across from Canada's capital, Ottawa. It is part of the official which constitutes the fourth largest urban area in the country, after , and .

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in , in central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is defined by the city as "the area bounded on the north by Gloucester Street and Lisgar Street, on the east by the , on the south by the Queensway freeway and on the west by Bronson Avenue." Traditionally it was all of Ottawa west of the , while was everything to the east.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the of the east end of Ottawa, , Canada. Historically francophone and working class, the neighbourhood was a separate city until being amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001.

Ottawa

Latitude
45.4209° or 45° 25′ 15″ north
Longitude
-75.6901° or 75° 41′ 24″ west
Population
934,000
Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)
IATA airport code
YOW
United Nations Location Code
CA OTT
Open location code
87Q6C8C5+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18886011
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6094817
Wiki­data ID
Q1930
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Ottawa” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Ottawa”
  • Adyghe: “Оттава”
  • Afrikaans: “Ottawa”
  • Albanian: “Otaua”
  • Albanian: “Otava”
  • Albanian: “Ottawa”
  • Amharic: “ኦታዋ”
  • Arabic: “أوتاوا”
  • Aragonese: “Ottawa”
  • Armenian: “Օտտավա”
  • Arpitan: “Ottawa”
  • Asturian: “Ottawa”
  • Atikamekw: “Ottawa”
  • Avaric: “Оттава”
  • Aymara: “Ottawa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ottava”
  • Balinese: “Ottawa”
  • Bashkir: “Оттава”
  • Basque: “Ottawa”
  • Bavarian: “Ottawa”
  • Belarusian: “Атава”
  • Bengali: “অটোয়া”
  • Bengali: “ওটাওয়া”
  • Bengali: “ওটোয়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओटावा, ओंटैरियो”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओटावा”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओट्टावा”
  • Bosnian: “Ottawa”
  • Breton: “Ottawa”
  • Bulgarian: “Отава”
  • Burmese: “အော့တဝမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ottawa”
  • Cebuano: “Ottawa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆتاوا”
  • Chavacano: “Ottawa”
  • Chechen: “Оттава”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏔᏩ, ᎨᎾᏓ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏔᏩ”
  • Chinese: “Ottawa”
  • Chinese: “渥太华”
  • Chinese: “渥太華”
  • Church Slavic: “Отава”
  • Chuvash: “Оттава”
  • Cornish: “Ottawa”
  • Corsican: “Ottawa”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ottava”
  • Croatian: “Ottawa”
  • Czech: “Ottawa”
  • Danish: “Ottawa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ottawa”
  • Dotyali: “ओटोवा”
  • Dutch: “Ottawa (Ontario)”
  • Dutch: “Ottawa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوتاوا”
  • Erzya: “Оттава ош”
  • Esperanto: “Otavo”
  • Estonian: “Ottawa”
  • Extremaduran: “Ottawa”
  • Faroese: “Ottawa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ottawa”
  • Finnish: “Ottawa”
  • French: “Ottawa (Ontario)”
  • French: “Ottawa”
  • French: “Ville d’Ottawa”
  • Friulian: “Ottawa”
  • Galician: “Otava”
  • Galician: “Ottawa”
  • Georgian: “ოტავა”
  • German: “Ottawa, Ontario”
  • German: “Ottawa”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍄𐌰𐍅𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐍉𐍄𐍄𐌰𐍅𐌰”
  • Greek: “ŸAA¬²±”
  • Greek: “Οτάβα”
  • Greek: “Οτταβα”
  • Greek: “Οττάβα”
  • Guarani: “Ottawa”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Otawa”
  • Gujarati: “ઓટાવા”
  • Haitian: “Otawa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ottawa”
  • Hausa: “Ottawa”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻOttawa”
  • Hebrew: “אוטווה”
  • Hindi: “ओटावा”
  • Hungarian: “Ottawa”
  • Icelandic: “Ottawa”
  • Ido: “Ottawa”
  • Indonesian: “Bytown”
  • Indonesian: “Ottawa”
  • Interlingua: “Ottawa”
  • Interlingue: “Ottawa”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᑐᕚ/atavaa”
  • Irish: “Ottawa”
  • Italian: “Ottawa”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Atawa”
  • Japanese: “オタワ”
  • Japanese: “チューリップ・シティ”
  • Javanese: “Ottawa”
  • Kabyle: “Ottawa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ottawa”
  • Kannada: “ಆಟ್ಟಾವಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಒಟ್ಟಾವ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ottava”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Оттава”
  • Kashmiri: “اوٹاوا”
  • Kazakh: “Оттава қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Оттава”
  • Khmer: “អូតាវ៉ា”
  • Kirghiz: “Оттава”
  • Komering: “Ottawa”
  • Korean: “오타와”
  • Kurdish: “Ottawa”
  • Ladino: “Ottawa”
  • Latgalian: “Otava”
  • Latin: “Ottava”
  • Latin: “Ottavia”
  • Latvian: “Otava”
  • Ligurian: “Ottawa”
  • Limburgan: “Ottawa”
  • Lingala: “Ottawa”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ottawa”
  • Literary Chinese: “渥太華”
  • Lithuanian: “Otava”
  • Livvi: “Ottava”
  • Lombard: “Ottawa”
  • Low German: “Ottawa”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Ottawa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ottawa”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ottawa”
  • Macedonian: “Отава”
  • Malagasy: “Ottawa”
  • Malay: “Ottawa”
  • Malayalam: “ഓട്ടവ”
  • Maltese: “Ottawa”
  • Marathi: “ओटावा”
  • Mazanderani: “اوتآوآ”
  • Mazanderani: “اوتاوا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ottawa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ottawa”
  • Minangkabau: “Ottawa”
  • Mingrelian: “ოტავა”
  • Moksha: “Оттава”
  • Mongolian: “Оттава”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أوطاوا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ؤطاوا”
  • Narom: “Ottawa”
  • Navajo: “Tótsoh Nílį́”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ottawa”
  • Northern Luri: “اتاوا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ottawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ottawa”
  • Norwegian: “Ottawa”
  • Novial: “Ottawa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ottawa (Ontàrio)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ottawa, Ontàrio”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ottawa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ottawa”
  • Oriya: “ଓଟାୱା”
  • Ossetian: “Оттавæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਟਾਵਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Ottawa”
  • Pedi: “Ottawa”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Ottawa”
  • Persian: “اتاوا”
  • Picard: “Ottawa”
  • Piemontese: “Ottawa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ottawa”
  • Polish: “Ottawa”
  • Pontic: “Οττάβα”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Ottawa”
  • Portuguese: “Otava”
  • Portuguese: “Ottawa, Canadá”
  • Portuguese: “Ottawa, Ontário”
  • Portuguese: “Ottawa”
  • Pushto: “آټاوا”
  • Quechua: “Ottawa”
  • Romanian: “Ottawa”
  • Romansh: “Ottawa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Оттава”
  • Russian: “Оттава”
  • Sakizaya: “Uwtayhuwa”
  • Samoan: “Ottawa”
  • Samogitian: “Otava”
  • Sardinian: “Ottawa”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Ottawa”
  • Scots: “Ottawa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ottawa”
  • Serbian: “Отава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ottawa”
  • Shona: “Ottawa”
  • Sicilian: “Ottawa”
  • Silesian: “Ottawa”
  • Sindhi: “اوٽاوا”
  • Sinhala: “ඔටාවා”
  • Sinhala: “ඕටවා”
  • Slovak: “Ottawa”
  • Slovenian: “Bytown”
  • Slovenian: “Ottawa”
  • Somali: “Ottawa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوتاوا”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Ottawa”
  • Spanish: “Otawa”
  • Spanish: “Ottawa (Canadá)”
  • Spanish: “Ottawa (Ontario)”
  • Spanish: “Ottawa”
  • Swahili: “Ottawa”
  • Swedish: “Ottawa”
  • Swiss German: “Ottawa”
  • Tachelhit: “Uṭawa”
  • Tagalog: “Ottawa”
  • Tajik: “Оттава”
  • Talysh: “Ottava”
  • Tamil: “ஒட்டவா”
  • Tamil: “ஒட்டாவா”
  • Tatar: “Ottawa”
  • Tatar: “Оттава”
  • Telugu: “అటావా”
  • Thai: “ออตตาวา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨོ་ཏ་ཝ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Ottawa”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ottawa”
  • Turkish: “Ottava”
  • Turkish: “Ottawa”
  • Turkmen: “Ottawa”
  • Twi: “Ottawa”
  • Udmurt: “Оттава”
  • Uighur: “Ottawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Оттава”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ottawa”
  • Urdu: “اوٹاوا”
  • Uzbek: “Ottava”
  • Venetian: “Ottawa”
  • Veps: “Ottav”
  • Vietnamese: “Ottawa”
  • Vlaams: “Ottawa”
  • Volapük: “Ottawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ottawa”
  • Welsh: “Ottawa”
  • Western Armenian: “Օթաուա”
  • Western Frisian: “Ottawa”
  • Western Panjabi: “اٹاوہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوٹاوا”
  • Wolof: “Ottawa”
  • Wu Chinese: “渥太华”
  • Yakut: “Оттава”
  • Yiddish: “אטאווא”
  • Yoruba: “Ottawa”
  • Yue Chinese: “渥太華”
  • Zeeuws: “Ottawa”
  • Zhuang: “Ottawa”
  • Zulu: “i-Ottawa”
  • “ma Otawa”
  • “ma tomo Alawa”
  • “Otava”
  • “Ottahua”
  • “Ottawa”
  • “ओटावा”

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