Rhode Island
Providence County
City of Providence

Providence

Providence is the state capital and largest city in , as well as the third largest city in . It used to be an industrial bastion of organized crime, but Providence's Renaissance has created new parks and attractions and brought emphasis back to its historic roots.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Downtown Providence and College Hill.

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includes the core of the downtown area as well as Waterplace Park, the Providence Place Mall, and Capitol Hill.

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is a district in Providence, Rhode Island. It is approximately bounded by North Main Street to the west, Williams Street to the south, Governor Street and Arlington Avenue to the east, and Olney Street to the north.

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is in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a largely African-American and Hispanic community and the population of people is very culturally diverse.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Fox Point and Federal Hill.

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is a neighborhood in Providence, . It is centered around Wickenden Street, which runs the length of the neighborhood, and is its commercial center.

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is a district in Providence, located just west of the downtown area of the city. is one of the finest areas in Providence during the day, but really shines at night.

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is a district in the northern area in Providence. Only a couple minutes from , provides a sense of entertainment and places to visit.

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Providence are the outer neighborhoods in the of Providence, RI. They are distinct from , which is a separate municipality.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rhode Island School of Design and Rhode Island State House.

University
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The is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the accessibility of design education to women.

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The , the capitol of the U.S. state of , is located at 82 Smith Street just below the crest of , on the border of in Providence.

Library
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The , nicknamed "the Rock", is the primary teaching and research library for the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Providence and North Providence.

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is a city in Providence County, , it is known as the Gateway to the East Bay. The area is predominantly residential, with elegant waterfront property and numerous apartment complexes.

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is a town in the area of . There are seven villages that make up the town of North Providence; Allendale, Centerdale, Fruit Hill, Greystone, Lymansville, Marieville, and Woodville/Geneva.

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is the second largest city in by population with 83,000 residents in 2020. It lies north of and south of Providence.

Providence

Latitude
41.824° or 41° 49′ 26″ north
Longitude
-71.4128° or 71° 24′ 46″ west
Population
179,000
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
IATA airport code
PVD
United Nations Location Code
US PVD
Open location code
87HCRHFP+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158811904
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5224151
Wiki­data ID
Q18383
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Providence” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Providence”
  • Albanian: “Providence”
  • Amharic: “ፕሮቪደንስ”
  • Arabic: “بروفيدنس، رود آيلند”
  • Arabic: “بروفيدنس”
  • Arabic: “بروفيدينس، رود أيلند”
  • Arabic: “پروڤيدنس، رود آيلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Providence”
  • Armenian: “Փրովիդենս”
  • Asturian: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Asturian: “Providence”
  • Azerbaijani: “Providens”
  • Balinese: “Providence, Nusa Rhode”
  • Basque: “Providence”
  • Belarusian: “Провідэнс”
  • Bengali: “প্রভিডেন্স, রোড আইল্যান্ড”
  • Bengali: “প্রভিডেন্স”
  • Bislama: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Bislama: “Providence”
  • Bosnian: “Providence”
  • Breton: “Providence”
  • Bulgarian: “Провидънс”
  • Catalan: “Providence”
  • Cebuano: “Providence”
  • Central Kurdish: “پڕۆڤیدێنس”
  • Chechen: “Провиденс”
  • Chinese: “Providence”
  • Chinese: “普洛威頓斯”
  • Chinese: “普洛維登斯”
  • Chinese: “普罗维登斯”
  • Cornish: “Providence, Ynys Rhode”
  • Cornish: “Providence”
  • Corsican: “Providence”
  • Croatian: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Croatian: “Providence”
  • Czech: “Providence”
  • Dagbani: “Providence”
  • Danish: “Providence”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Providence”
  • Dutch: “Providence”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروفيدنس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پروڤيدانس رود ايلاند”
  • Esperanto: “Providence”
  • Esperanto: “Providenco”
  • Estonian: “Providence”
  • Extremaduran: “Providence”
  • Faroese: “Providence”
  • Finnish: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Finnish: “Providence”
  • French: “Providence, RI”
  • French: “Providence”
  • Galician: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Galician: “Providence”
  • Georgian: “პროვიდენსი”
  • German: “Providence”
  • Gilaki: “پراويدنس (رؤد آیلند)”
  • Gilaki: “پراويدنس”
  • Gothic: “𐍀𐍂𐍉𐍆𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃”
  • Greek: “Πρόβιντενς”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રોવિડન્સ”
  • Haitian: “Providence, Rhode”
  • Haitian: “Providence”
  • Hebrew: “פרובידנס”
  • Hindi: “प्रोविडेंस”
  • Hungarian: “Providence”
  • Icelandic: “Providence”
  • Ido: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Ido: “Providence”
  • Iloko: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Iloko: “Providence”
  • Indonesian: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Indonesian: “Providence”
  • Interlingua: “Providence”
  • Interlingue: “Providence”
  • Irish: “Providence, Oileán Rhode”
  • Irish: “Providence”
  • Italian: “Providence (Rhode Island)”
  • Italian: “Providence”
  • Japanese: “プロヴィデンス”
  • Japanese: “プロビデンス”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರಾವಿಡೆನ್ಸ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Провиденс”
  • Korean: “프로비던스”
  • Kurdish: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Kurdish: “Providence”
  • Ladin: “Providence”
  • Latin: “Providentia”
  • Latvian: “Providensa”
  • Ligurian: “Providence”
  • Lithuanian: “Providensas”
  • Lombard: “Providence”
  • Macedonian: “Провиденс”
  • Malagasy: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Malagasy: “Providence”
  • Malay: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Malay: “Providence”
  • Malayalam: “പ്രൊവിഡൻസ്, റോഡ് ഐലൻറ്”
  • Maltese: “Providence”
  • Manx: “Providence, Ellan Rhode”
  • Manx: “Providence”
  • Marathi: “प्रॉव्हिडन्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Providence”
  • Moksha: “Провидэнс”
  • Mongolian: “Провиденс”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پروڤيدونس”
  • Newari: “प्रभिदेन्स”
  • Newari: “प्रोभिडेन्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Providence”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Providence”
  • Norwegian: “Providence”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Providence”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Godsweot”
  • Ossetian: “Провиденс”
  • Pali: “प्रोभिडेन्स”
  • Pampanga: “Providence”
  • Persian: “پراویدنس”
  • Piemontese: “Providence”
  • Polish: “Providence”
  • Portuguese: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Portuguese: “Providence”
  • Quechua: “Providence”
  • Romanian: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Romanian: “Providence”
  • Russian: “Провиденс”
  • Samogitian: “Provėdensos”
  • Sanskrit: “प्राविडेन्स्”
  • Sardinian: “Providence”
  • Scots: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Scots: “Providence”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Providence”
  • Serbian: “Провиденс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Providence”
  • Sicilian: “Providence”
  • Silesian: “Providence”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රොවිඩන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Providence”
  • Slovenian: “Providence”
  • Spanish: “Providence (Rhode Island)”
  • Spanish: “Providence”
  • Swahili: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Swahili: “Providence”
  • Swedish: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Swedish: “Providence”
  • Tagalog: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Tagalog: “Providence”
  • Talysh: “Provindens”
  • Tamil: “பிராவிடென்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Провиденс”
  • Telugu: “ప్రొవిడెన్స్”
  • Thai: “พรอวิเดนซ์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Providence”
  • Turkish: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Turkish: “Providence”
  • Twi: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Twi: “Providence”
  • Ukrainian: “Провіденс”
  • Urdu: “پروویڈنس، روڈ آئلینڈ”
  • Urdu: “پروویڈنس”
  • Venetian: “Providence”
  • Vietnamese: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Vietnamese: “Providence”
  • Vlax Romani: “Providence”
  • Volapük: “Providence”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Providence”
  • Welsh: “Providence, Rhode Island”
  • Welsh: “Providence”
  • Western Frisian: “Providence”
  • Western Mari: “Провиденс”
  • Western Panjabi: “پروویڈنس”
  • Wu Chinese: “普罗维登斯”
  • Yiddish: “פראווידענס”
  • Yue Chinese: “普洛維登斯”
  • “Provėdensos”
  • “Providence”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Providence”. Photo: Will Hart, CC BY 2.0.