Central Illinois
Sangamon
Capital Township

Springfield

Springfield is a city in the center of the state of . It is the state's capital — not — and the county seat of Sangamon County. Springfield is best known for its most famous resident, Abraham Lincoln, and there are several historic sites that are dedicated to him.
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  • Type: City with 114,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Illinois and county seat of Sangamon County
  • Also known as: “Calhoun”, “Springfield, IL”, and “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Postal codes: 62701-62708, 62715, 62716, 62719, 62722, 62723, 62726, 62736, 62739, 62756, 62757, 62761-62767, 62769, 62776, 62777, 62781, 62786, 62791, 62794, and 62796

Places of Interest

Highlights include Illinois State Capitol and Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Town hall
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The , located in Springfield, Illinois, houses the legislative and executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of .

Library
Photo: AmosDoyle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The documents the life of the 16th U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, and the course of the American Civil War.

Park
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
preserves the Springfield, Illinois, home and related historic district where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1844 to 1861, prior to becoming the 16th president of the United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grandview.

Village
is a village in , , . The population was 1,441 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Springfield

Latitude
39.799° or 39° 47′ 57″ north
Longitude
-89.644° or 89° 38′ 38″ west
Population
114,000
Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)
IATA airport code
SPI
United Nations Location Code
US SPI
Open location code
86FGQ9X4+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5518531014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4250542
Wiki­data ID
Q28515
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Springfield” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Afrikaans: “Springfield”
  • Albanian: “Springfield”
  • Amharic: “ስፕሪንግፊልድ፣ ኢሊኖይ”
  • Arabic: “سبرنغفيلد، إلينوي”
  • Arabic: “سبرينج فيلد، إلينوي”
  • Arabic: “سبرينج فيلد، الينوي”
  • Arabic: “سبرينغفيلد، إلينوي”
  • Arabic: “سبرينغفيلد”
  • Arabic: “سپرنگفيلد، إلينوي”
  • Aragonese: “Springfield”
  • Armenian: “Սփրինգֆիլդ”
  • Asturian: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Asturian: “Springfield”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sprinqfild”
  • Basque: “Springfield”
  • Belarusian: “Спрынгфілд (Ілінойс)”
  • Belarusian: “Спрынгфілд”
  • Bengali: “Capital Township, Sangamon County”
  • Bengali: “Capital Township”
  • Bengali: “Springfield IL”
  • Bengali: “Springfield Illinois”
  • Bengali: “Springfield”
  • Bengali: “UN/LOCODE:USSPI”
  • Bengali: “স্প্রিংফিল্ড, ইলিনয়”
  • Bengali: “স্প্রিংফিল্ড”
  • Bengali: “স্প্রিংফীল্ড”
  • Bislama: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Bislama: “Springfield”
  • Bosnian: “Springfield”
  • Breton: “Springfield”
  • Bulgarian: “Спрингфийлд”
  • Bulgarian: “Спрингфилд”
  • Catalan: “Springfield”
  • Cebuano: “Springfield”
  • Central Kurdish: “سپرینگفیڵد، ئیلینۆی”
  • Central Kurdish: “سپرینگفیڵد”
  • Chechen: “Спрингфилд”
  • Chinese: “Springfield”
  • Chinese: “史普林菲爾德”
  • Chinese: “斯普林菲尔德”
  • Chinese: “斯普林菲爾德”
  • Chinese: “春田”
  • Chinese: “春田市”
  • Chuvash: “Спрингфилд”
  • Cornish: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Cornish: “Springfield”
  • Corsican: “Springfield”
  • Croatian: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Croatian: “Springfield”
  • Czech: “Springfield”
  • Dagbani: “Springfield”
  • Danish: “Springfield”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Springfield”
  • Dutch: “Springfield”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سبرينج فيلد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سبرينجفيلد”
  • Esperanto: “Springfield”
  • Estonian: “Springfield”
  • Extremaduran: “Springfield”
  • Faroese: “Springfield”
  • Finnish: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Finnish: “Springfield”
  • French: “Springfield, IL”
  • French: “Springfield”
  • Galician: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Galician: “Springfield”
  • Georgian: “სპრინგფილდი”
  • German: “Springfield, IL”
  • German: “Springfield”
  • Gilaki: “اسپرينگ‌فيلد (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “اسپرينگ‌فيلد”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌸”
  • Greek: “Σπρίνγκφηλντ”
  • Greek: “Σπρίνγκφιλντ”
  • Guarani: “Springfield”
  • Gujarati: “સ્પ્રિંગફીલ્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Springfield, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Springfield”
  • Hawaiian: “Kepilepila”
  • Hebrew: “ספרינגפילד”
  • Hindi: “स्प्रिंगफील्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Springfield”
  • Icelandic: “Springfield”
  • Ido: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Ido: “Springfield”
  • Iloko: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Iloko: “Springfield”
  • Indonesian: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Indonesian: “Springfield”
  • Interlingua: “Springfield”
  • Interlingue: “Springfield”
  • Irish: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Irish: “Springfield”
  • Italian: “Springfield”
  • Japanese: “スプリングフィールド”
  • Japanese: “花の都”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಪ್ರಿಂಗ್ಫೀಲ್ಡ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Спрингфилд”
  • Komering: “Springfield”
  • Korean: “스프링필드”
  • Kurdish: “Springfield”
  • Ladin: “Springfield”
  • Latin: “Campifons”
  • Latvian: “Springfīlda”
  • Ligurian: “Springfield”
  • Lithuanian: “Springfildas”
  • Lombard: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Lombard: “Springfield”
  • Luxembourgish: “Springfield”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Springfield”
  • Macedonian: “Спрингфилд”
  • Malagasy: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Malagasy: “Springfield”
  • Malay: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Malay: “Springfield”
  • Malayalam: “സ്പ്രിംഗഫീൽഡ്, ഇല്ലിനോയിസ്”
  • Malayalam: “സ്പ്രിംഗഫീൽഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “സ്പ്രിംഗ്ഫീൽഡ്, ഇല്ലിനോയി”
  • Marathi: “स्प्रिंगफिल्ड”
  • Marathi: “स्प्रिंगफील्ड”
  • Mazanderani: “اسپرینگفیلد (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “اسپرینگفیلد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Springfield”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سپيرنڭفيلد”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߔߑߙ߭ߌ߲ߜ߭ߑߝߌߍߟߘ߸ ߌߟߌߣߏߥߊ”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߔߑߙ߭ߌ߲ߜ߭ߑߝߌߍߟߘ”
  • Navajo: “Tooh Siyíní Bibąąh”
  • Neapolitan: “Springfield”
  • Nepali: “स्प्रिङफिल्ड”
  • Newari: “स्प्रिंगफिल्ड”
  • Newari: “स्प्रिङ्गफिल्ड”
  • Newari: “स्प्रिङ्गफिल्द, इलिनोइ”
  • Newari: “स्प्रिङ्गफिल्द”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Springfield i Illinois”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Springfield”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Springfield i Illinois”
  • Norwegian: “Springfield”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Springfield”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Spryngfeld”
  • Ossetian: “Спрингфилд”
  • Pali: “स्प्रिंगफिल्ड”
  • Pampanga: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Pampanga: “Springfield”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Springfield”
  • Persian: “اسپرینگ فیلد”
  • Persian: “اسپرینگ‌فیلد”
  • Persian: “اسپرینگفیلد”
  • Picard: “Springfield”
  • Piemontese: “Springfield”
  • Polish: “Springfield”
  • Portuguese: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Portuguese: “Springfield”
  • Quechua: “Springfield”
  • Romanian: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Romanian: “Springfield”
  • Russian: “Спрингфилд”
  • Russian: “Спрингфильд, город в Соединенных Штатах”
  • Samogitian: “Springfilds”
  • Sanskrit: “स्प्रिंग्फील्ड्”
  • Sanskrit: “स्प्रिंग्फ़ील्ड्”
  • Sardinian: “Springfield”
  • Scots: “Springfield, IL”
  • Scots: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Scots: “Springfield”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Springfield”
  • Serbian: “Спрингфилд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Springfield”
  • Sicilian: “Springfield”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ප්රින්ග්ෆිල්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Springfield”
  • Slovenian: “Springfield”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسپرینقفیلد، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Springfield (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Springfield”
  • Swahili: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Swahili: “Springfield”
  • Swedish: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Springfield”
  • Tagalog: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Tagalog: “Springfield”
  • Tajik: “Спрингфилд”
  • Talysh: “Springfild”
  • Tamil: “இசுப்பிரிங்ஃபீல்ட்”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்பிரிங்ஃபீல்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Спрингфилд”
  • Tatar: “Сприңфилд”
  • Telugu: “స్ప్రింగ్ ఫీల్డ్”
  • Thai: “สปริงฟิลด์”
  • Thai: “สปริงฟีลด์”
  • Turkish: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Springfield”
  • Ukrainian: “Спрингфілд”
  • Ukrainian: “Спрінгфілд”
  • Urdu: “اسپرنگ فیلڈ، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “اسپرنگ فیلڈ”
  • Urdu: “سپرنگ فیلڈ، الینوائے”
  • Venetian: “Springfield”
  • Vietnamese: “Springfield, IL”
  • Vietnamese: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Springfield”
  • Volapük: “Springfield”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Springfield”
  • Welsh: “Springfield, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Springfield”
  • Western Frisian: “Springfield”
  • Western Mari: “Спрингфилд”
  • Western Panjabi: “سپرنگفیلڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯普林菲尔德（伊利诺伊州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯普林菲尔德”
  • Yakut: “Спрингфиелд”
  • Yiddish: “ספרינגפילד, אילינוי”
  • Yiddish: “ספרינגפילד”
  • Yue Chinese: “春田”
  • “Springfilds”

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