Shreveport

Shreveport is the largest city in , part of the twin city metro of Shreveport-Bossier City, and is considered the principal city in the three-state region known as the "Ark-La-Tex." It has about 188,000 residents, and is in the area of the state designated as the Sportsman's Paradise.
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  • Type: City with 188,000 residents
  • Description: parish seat of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States
  • Also known as: “Shreve Town”, “Shreveport, LA”, “Shreveport, Louisiana”, and “Shreves Landing”
  • Postal codes: 71101-71109, 71115, 71118-71120, 71129, 71130, 71133-71138, 71148, 71149, 71151-71154, 71156, and 71161-71166

Places of Interest

Highlights include Robinson Film Center and Long–Allen Bridge.

Movie theater
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a movie theater.

Bridge
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a truss bridge in Louisiana, named for Louisiana governors Huey Long and Oscar K. Allen. It connects in with Shreveport in .

School
Caddo Parish Magnet High School is a public high school located in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Opened in 1980, Caddo Magnet was founded by its first principal, Ascension Smith.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bossier City.

Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the second-largest city in and the largest city in Bossier Parish. Home to Barksdale Air Force Base, which hosts several Air Force commands, as well as the backup landing site of Air Force One, 's recent history revolves largely around the U.S. military.

Shreveport

Latitude
32.5098° or 32° 30′ 35″ north
Longitude
-93.7477° or 93° 44′ 52″ west
Population
188,000
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
IATA airport code
SHV
United Nations Location Code
US SHV
Open location code
8648G752+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29405948
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4341513
Wiki­data ID
Q80517
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Shreveport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Shreveport”
  • Albanian: “Shreveport”
  • Arabic: “شريفبورت”
  • Armenian: “Շրիվպորտ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şrivport”
  • Basque: “Shreveport”
  • Belarusian: “Шрыўпарт”
  • Bengali: “শ্রিভপোর্ট, লুইজিয়ানা”
  • Bengali: “শ্রিভপোর্ট”
  • Breton: “Shreveport”
  • Bulgarian: “Шревпорт”
  • Bulgarian: “Шривпорт”
  • Catalan: “Shreveport”
  • Cebuano: “Shreveport”
  • Central Kurdish: “شریڤپۆرت”
  • Chechen: “Шривпорт”
  • Chinese: “Shreveport”
  • Chinese: “什里夫波特”
  • Chinese: “施里夫港”
  • Chinese: “薛佛波特”
  • Cornish: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Cornish: “Shreveport”
  • Croatian: “Shreveport”
  • Czech: “Shreveport”
  • Dagbani: “Shreveport”
  • Danish: “Shreveport”
  • Dutch: “Shreveport”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شريفبورت”
  • Esperanto: “Shreveport”
  • Faroese: “Shreveport”
  • Finnish: “Shreveport”
  • French: “Shreveport”
  • Galician: “Shreveport”
  • German: “Shreveport”
  • Gilaki: “شريوپؤرت (لۊئيزيانا)”
  • Gilaki: “شريوپؤرت”
  • Greek: “Σρίβεπορτ”
  • Gujarati: “શ્રેવપોર્ટ”
  • Haitian: “Shreveport, Lwizyana”
  • Haitian: “Shreveport”
  • Hebrew: “שריבפורט”
  • Hindi: “श्रीवपोर्ट”
  • Hindi: “श्रेवेपोर्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Shreveport”
  • Icelandic: “Shreveport”
  • Indonesian: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Indonesian: “Shreveport”
  • Interlingua: “Shreveport”
  • Irish: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Irish: “Shreveport”
  • Italian: “Shreveport”
  • Japanese: “シュリーヴポート”
  • Japanese: “シュリーブポート”
  • Kannada: “ಶ್ರೆವೆಪೋರ್ಟ್”
  • Korean: “슈리브포트”
  • Ladin: “Shreveport”
  • Latvian: “Šrivporta”
  • Latvian: “Šrīvporta”
  • Lithuanian: “Šrivportas”
  • Malagasy: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Malagasy: “Shreveport”
  • Malay: “Shreveport”
  • Marathi: “श्रीवपोर्ट”
  • Marathi: “श्रीव्हपोर्ट”
  • Mazanderani: “شریوپورت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shreveport”
  • Navajo: “Halchíídę́ę́ʼ Nílíní”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shreveport”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shreveport”
  • Norwegian: “Shreveport”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Shreveport”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scrēfeport”
  • Ossetian: “Шривпорт”
  • Persian: “شریوپورت، لوئیزیانا”
  • Persian: “شریوپورت”
  • Piemontese: “Shreveport”
  • Polish: “Shreveport”
  • Portuguese: “Shreveport”
  • Romanian: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Romanian: “Shreveport”
  • Russian: “Шревепорт”
  • Russian: “Шривпорт”
  • Sanskrit: “श्रीवपोर्ट”
  • Scots: “Shreveport”
  • Serbian: “Shreveport”
  • Serbian: “Шревпорт”
  • Serbian: “Шривпорт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shreveport”
  • Silesian: “Shreveport”
  • Sinhala: “ශ්‍රේවිපොර්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Shreveport”
  • Slovenian: “Shreveport”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شریوپورت، لوئیزیانا”
  • Spanish: “Shreveport (Louisiana)”
  • Spanish: “Shreveport”
  • Swahili: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Swahili: “Shreveport”
  • Swedish: “Shreveport”
  • Tagalog: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Tagalog: “Shreveport”
  • Talysh: “Šrivport”
  • Tamil: “ஷ்ராவ்ப்போர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Шривпорт”
  • Telugu: “శ్రేవేపోర్ట్”
  • Thai: “ชรีฟพอร์ต”
  • Turkish: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Turkish: “Shreveport”
  • Ukrainian: “Шривпорт”
  • Urdu: “شریوپورٹ، لوزیانا”
  • Urdu: “شریوپورٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Shreveport”
  • Venetian: “Shreveport”
  • Vietnamese: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Vietnamese: “Shreveport”
  • Volapük: “Shreveport”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shreveport”
  • Welsh: “Shreveport, Louisiana”
  • Welsh: “Shreveport”
  • Wu Chinese: “什里夫波特（路易斯安那州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “什里夫波特”

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