Paducah
Paducah is a small city on the Ohio River about midway between St. Louis, Missouri and Nashville, Tennessee. The county seat of McCracken County and the largest city in the Jackson Purchase area of western Kentucky, Paducah has a booming riverfront restaurant…
- Type: City with 25,000 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Paducah (Kentucky)”, “Paducah, Kentucky”, “Paducah, KY”, “Pekin”, “Падуcаҳ”, “パデュカー”, and “帕杜卡”
- Postal codes: 42001-42003
Places of Interest
Highlights: National Quilt Museum and St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church.
National Quilt Museum
Museum
Photo: Road Travel America, Public domain.St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Church
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.Grace Episcopal Church
Church
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.Paducah
- Categories: city of Kentucky, county seat, and locality
- Location: McCracken, Western Waterlands, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.0834° or 37° 5′ 0″ north
Longitude
-88.6° or 88° 36′ 0″ west
Population
25,000
Elevation
341 feet (104 metres)
IATA airport code
PAH
UN/LOCODE
US PAH
Open location code
869H39MX+9X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Paducah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بادوكا”
- Basque: “Paducah”
- Bengali: “পাদুকা”
- Bengali: “পাদোচা”
- Catalan: “Paducah”
- Cebuano: “Paducah (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Kentucky)”
- Cebuano: “Paducah”
- Chechen: “Педука”
- Chinese: “帕迪尤卡”
- Czech: “Paducah”
- Dagbani: “Paducah”
- Danish: “Paducah”
- Dutch: “Paducah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بادوكا”
- Finnish: “Paducah”
- French: “Paducah”
- German: “Paducah”
- Gilaki: “پادوکا (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “پادوکا”
- Greek: “Παντουκάχ”
- Gujarati: “પડુકાહ”
- Haitian: “Paducah, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Paducah”
- Hebrew: “פאדוקה”
- Hindi: “पेडूकाः”
- Hungarian: “Paducah”
- Ido: “Paducah, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Paducah”
- Indonesian: “Paducah”
- Irish: “Paducah”
- Italian: “Paducah”
- Japanese: “パデューカ”
- Kannada: “ಪಡುಕಾಹ್”
- Kazakh: “Padwka”
- Kazakh: “Падука”
- Kazakh: “پادۋكا”
- Kirghiz: “Падука”
- Korean: “퍼듀카”
- Ladin: “Paducah”
- Latvian: “Paduka”
- Lithuanian: “Paduka”
- Malagasy: “Paducah, Kentucky”
- Malagasy: “Paducah”
- Malay: “Paducah”
- Marathi: “पाडुका”
- Marathi: “पोडुकाह”
- Mazanderani: “پادوکا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Paducah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paducah”
- Norwegian: “Paducah”
- Persian: “پادوکا”
- Persian: “پدوک”
- Persian: “پدوکا، کنتاکی”
- Polish: “Paducah”
- Portuguese: “Paducah”
- Russian: “Падака”
- Russian: “Падьюка”
- Serbian: “Падјука”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paducah, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paducah”
- Silesian: “Paducah”
- Sinhala: “පඩුකා”
- Slovak: “Paducah”
- Slovenian: “Paducah”
- South Azerbaijani: “پدوکا، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Paducah”
- Swedish: “Paducah, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Paducah”
- Tamil: “படுகாஹ்”
- Tatar: “Педука”
- Telugu: “పదూక”
- Thai: “พาดูคาห์”
- Turkish: “Paducah, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Paducah”
- Ukrainian: “Педука”
- Urdu: “پاڈوکاہ، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “پاڈوکاہ”
- Uzbek: “Paducah”
- Vietnamese: “Paducah”
- Volapük: “Paducah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paducah, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paducah”
- “Paducah”
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