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Rochester

Big-city culture and small-city charm combine in Rochester, a mid-sized city on the shore of . The birthplace of amateur photography, Rochester was synonymous with Eastman Kodak for much of the 20th century, but the city's fame was established well before George Eastman came on the scene.
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  • Type: City with 211,000 residents
  • Description: county seat of Monroe County, New York, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Rochester”, “Flour City”, “Flower City”, “Ga-sko-sa-ga”, “Gaskosago”, “ROC”, “Roc City”, “Rochester, New York”, “Rochester, NY”, “Rochester, USA”, “Rochesterville”, “The World’s Image Centre”, and “Young Lion of the West”
  • Postal codes: 14602-14627, 14638, 14639, 14642-14644, 14646, 14647, 14649-14653, 14692, and 14694

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blue Cross Arena and George Eastman Museum.

Stadium
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, also known as the War Memorial, is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Rochester, New York. For hockey and lacrosse, its seating capacity is 10,662.

Museum
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The , also referred to as George Eastman House and the International Museum of Photography and Film, is a photography , located on the grounds of the George Eastman's estate in Rochester, New York.

Museum
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is part of The Strong in Rochester, New York, . Established in 1969 and initially based on the personal collection of Rochester native Margaret Woodbury Strong, the museum opened to the public in 1982, after several years of planning, cataloguing, and exhibition development for the museum's new building in downtown Rochester.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brighton and East Avenue Historic District.

Town
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is a town and census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 37,137 at the 2020 census.

Neighborhood
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is a national historic district located at Rochester in . The district consists of a series of large 19th and early 20th century homes, houses of worship, meeting houses, and museums.

Neighborhood
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South Wedge is a historic district and neighborhood in southeast Rochester, New York, in a predominantly residential section of the city. The district includes a variety of buildings constructed between the 1840s and 1920s, mainly two-story detached family residences.

Rochester

Latitude
43.1573° or 43° 9′ 26″ north
Longitude
-77.6152° or 77° 36′ 55″ west
Population
211,000
Elevation
505 feet (154 metres)
IATA airport code
ROC
United Nations Location Code
US ROC
Open location code
87M4594M+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1517267225
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5134086
Wiki­data ID
Q49218
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Rochester” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rochester, New York”
  • Afrikaans: “Rochester”
  • Albanian: “Rochester, New York”
  • Albanian: “Rochester”
  • Arabic: “روتشستر”
  • Armenian: “Ռոչեստեր”
  • Asturian: “Rochester”
  • Azerbaijani: “Roçester”
  • Balinese: “Rochester, New York”
  • Bashkir: “Рочестер”
  • Basque: “Rochester”
  • Belarusian: “Рочэстэр”
  • Bengali: “রচেস্টার, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bengali: “রচেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Rochester”
  • Bulgarian: “Рочестър”
  • Catalan: “Rochester”
  • Cebuano: “Rochester (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, New York)”
  • Cebuano: “Rochester”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆچێستەر، نیویۆرک”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆچێستەر”
  • Chechen: “Рочестер”
  • Chinese: “Rochester”
  • Chinese: “罗切斯特”
  • Chinese: “羅徹斯特”
  • Cornish: “Rochester, Evrek Nowydh”
  • Croatian: “Rochester, New York”
  • Croatian: “Rochester”
  • Czech: “Rochester”
  • Danish: “Rochester”
  • Dutch: “Rochester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روتشستر”
  • Esperanto: “Roĉestro”
  • Estonian: “Rochester”
  • Finnish: “Rochester”
  • French: “Rochester, New York”
  • French: “Rochester”
  • French: “Ville de la farine”
  • French: “Ville de Rochester”
  • French: “Ville des fleurs”
  • Galician: “Rochester, Nova York”
  • Galician: “Rochester”
  • Georgian: “როჩესტერი”
  • German: “Rochester”
  • Gilaki: “راچستر (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “راچستر”
  • Greek: “Ρότσεστερ, Νέα Υόρκη”
  • Greek: “Ρότσεστερ”
  • Gujarati: “રોચેસ્ટર”
  • Haitian: “Rochester, New York”
  • Haitian: “Rochester”
  • Hebrew: “רוצ’סטר”
  • Hebrew: “רוצסטר”
  • Hindi: “रोचेस्टर, न्यूयॉर्क”
  • Hindi: “रोचेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Rochester”
  • Icelandic: “Rochester”
  • Ido: “Rochester, Nova-York”
  • Ido: “Rochester”
  • Indonesian: “Rochester, New York”
  • Indonesian: “Rochester”
  • Irish: “Rochester, Nua-Eabhrac”
  • Irish: “Rochester”
  • Italian: “Rochester”
  • Japanese: “ニューヨーク州ロチェスター”
  • Japanese: “ロチェスター”
  • Japanese: “ロチェスター市”
  • Japanese: “世界のイメージの中心地”
  • Japanese: “小麦粉の街”
  • Japanese: “花の街”
  • Kannada: “ರೋಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Rochester, New York”
  • Kikuyu: “Rochester”
  • Korean: “꽃의 도시”
  • Korean: “로체스터, 뉴욕”
  • Korean: “로체스터”
  • Korean: “로체스터시”
  • Ladin: “Rochester”
  • Latin: “Rocestria”
  • Latin: “Roffa”
  • Latvian: “Ročestera”
  • Lithuanian: “Ročesteris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rochester”
  • Macedonian: “Рочестер”
  • Malagasy: “Rochester”
  • Malay: “Rochester”
  • Malayalam: “റോച്ചസ്റ്റർ”
  • Maltese: “Rochester”
  • Marathi: “रॉचेस्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “راچستر (نیویورک)”
  • Mazanderani: “راچستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rochester”
  • Moksha: “Рочэстэр”
  • N'Ko: “ߘߎߢߊ߫ ߖߌ߬ߦߊ߬ߓߍ߫ ߕߊ߲ߓߊ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߙߏߛ߭ߍߛߑߕߊ߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߊ߲ߓߏ߲߫ ߛߏ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rochester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rochester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rochester i New York”
  • Norwegian: “Rochester”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rochester”
  • Ossetian: “Рочестер”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Rochester, Nei Yarrick”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Rochester”
  • Persian: “راچستر”
  • Persian: “روچستر، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “روچستر”
  • Piemontese: “Rochester”
  • Polish: “Rochester”
  • Portuguese: “Rochester”
  • Romanian: “Rochester, New York”
  • Romanian: “Rochester”
  • Russian: “Рочестер”
  • Scots: “Rochester”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rochester, Eabhraig Nuadh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rochester”
  • Serbian: “Рочестер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rochester, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rochester”
  • Silesian: “Rochester”
  • Sinhala: “රෝචෙස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Rochester”
  • Slovenian: “Rochester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “راچستر، نیویورک”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Rochester”
  • Spanish: “El Centro de Imágenes del Mundo”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad de la Harina”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad de las Flores”
  • Spanish: “Rochester (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Rochester”
  • Swahili: “Rochester, New York”
  • Swahili: “Rochester”
  • Swedish: “Rochester, New York”
  • Swedish: “Rochester”
  • Tagalog: “Rochester, New York”
  • Tagalog: “Rochester”
  • Tajik: “Рочестер,Ню-Йорк”
  • Tajik: “Рочестер”
  • Tamil: “இரோசெச்டர், நியூ யோர்க்”
  • Tamil: “இரோசெச்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Рочестер (АКШ)”
  • Tatar: “Рочестер”
  • Telugu: “రోచెస్టర్”
  • Thai: “รอเชสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Rochester, New York”
  • Turkish: “Rochester”
  • Ukrainian: “Рочестер”
  • Urdu: “روچیسٹر، نیو یارک”
  • Uzbek: “Rochester”
  • Venetian: “Rochester”
  • Vietnamese: “Rochester, New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Rochester, Niu Oóc”
  • Vietnamese: “Rochester, Nữu Ước”
  • Vietnamese: “Rochester”
  • Volapük: “Rochester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rochester, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rochester”
  • Welsh: “Rochester, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Rochester”
  • Western Panjabi: “روچسٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗切斯特（纽约州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗切斯特”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅徹斯特”

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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 “Rochester”. Photo: LtPowers, CC BY-SA 3.0.