Arizona
South Central Arizona
Pima County

Tucson

Tucson, also known as the "Old Pueblo", is the second-largest city in the state of and the county seat of Pima County in the Sonoran Desert. It is at a higher elevation than nearby Phoenix and is correspondingly cooler.
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  • Type: City with 550,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States
  • Also known as: “Chuk Shon”, “Cuk Ṣon”, “Fucson”, “Lucson”, “S-cuk Ṣon”, “San Casme del Tucson”, “Teuson”, “Toison”, “Tucson, Ariz.”, “Tucson, Arizona”, “Tucson, AZ”, “Tuczon”, “Tugson”, “Tuguison”, “Tuison”, “Tulquson”, “Tuozon”, “Tuquisson”, and “Tuqulson”
  • Postal codes: 85701-85726, 85728, 85730-85737, 85739-85752, 85754, and 85775

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tucson Convention Center and Fox Tucson Theatre.

Convention center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is a multi-purpose convention center located in downtown Tucson, Arizona. Built in 1971, the location includes an 8,962-seat indoor arena, two performing arts venues, and 205,000 square feet of meeting space.

Theater building
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The is located in downtown Tucson, , . The theater opened on April 11, 1930 as a performance space in downtown Tucson.

Heritage site
Photo: Ammodramus, CC0.
The is a historic two-story building in Tucson, Arizona. It was designed by Alexander P. Petit in the Italianate style, and built in 1883.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Tucson and Barrio San Antonio.

Village
is a city in , , United States and an enclave of the much larger city of Tucson. is known for being heavily influenced by Hispanic, and especially Mexican, culture; restaurants and shops which sell traditional Mexican food and other goods can be found throughout the city.

Neighborhood
is a historic barrio located adjacent to and east of downtown Tucson, Arizona, . It is bounded by Aviation Parkway, Arroyo Chico, South Kino Parkway, and South Park Avenue.

Tucson

Latitude
32.2229° or 32° 13′ 22″ north
Longitude
-110.9748° or 110° 58′ 29″ west
Population
550,000
Elevation
2,490 feet (759 metres)
IATA airport code
TUS
United Nations Location Code
US TUZ
Open location code
854F62FG+53
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150964034
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5318313
Wiki­data ID
Q18575
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tucson” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tucson”
  • Albanian: “Tucson”
  • Arabic: “تشوك شون”
  • Arabic: “توسان”
  • Arabic: “توسن، أريزونا”
  • Arabic: “توسن”
  • Arabic: “توسون (أريزونا)”
  • Arabic: “توسون، أريزونا”
  • Arabic: “توسون”
  • Arabic: “توكسون (أريزونا)”
  • Arabic: “توكسون، أريزونا”
  • Armenian: “Թուսոն”
  • Asturian: “Tucson (Arizona)”
  • Asturian: “Tucson”
  • Azerbaijani: “Takson”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tuson”
  • Bambara: “Tucson”
  • Basque: “Tucson”
  • Belarusian: “Тусан”
  • Bengali: “টুসন”
  • Bengali: “টুসান”
  • Breton: “Tucson”
  • Bulgarian: “Тусон”
  • Catalan: “Tucson”
  • Cebuano: “Tucson”
  • Central Kurdish: “تووسان”
  • Chechen: “Тусон”
  • Chinese: “Tucson”
  • Chinese: “图森”
  • Chinese: “圖森”
  • Cornish: “Tucson, Arisona”
  • Cornish: “Tucson”
  • Croatian: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Croatian: “Tucson”
  • Czech: “Tucson”
  • Dagbani: “Tucson”
  • Danish: “Tucson”
  • Dutch: “Tucson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “توسون”
  • Esperanto: “Tucson”
  • Estonian: “Tucson”
  • Faroese: “Tucson”
  • Finnish: “Tucson”
  • French: “Tucson”
  • Galician: “Tucson”
  • Georgian: “ტუსონი”
  • German: “Tucson”
  • Gilaki: “تۊسان (آريزؤنا)”
  • Gilaki: “تۊسان”
  • Greek: “Τούσον, Αριζόνα”
  • Greek: “Τουσόν”
  • Greek: “Τούσον”
  • Gujarati: “ટક્સન”
  • Haitian: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Haitian: “Tucson”
  • Hausa: “Birnin tucson”
  • Hebrew: “טוסון”
  • Hindi: “टूकसों”
  • Hungarian: “Tucson”
  • Icelandic: “Tucson”
  • Ido: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Ido: “Tucson”
  • Indonesian: “Tucson”
  • Irish: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Irish: “Tucson”
  • Italian: “Tucson”
  • Japanese: “ツーソン”
  • Japanese: “トゥーソン”
  • Javanese: “Tucson”
  • Kannada: “ಟಕ್ಸನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಟೂಸಾನ್”
  • Korean: “투손”
  • Ladin: “Tucson”
  • Ladino: “Tucson”
  • Latin: “Tucson”
  • Latvian: “Tūsona”
  • Limburgan: “Tucson”
  • Lithuanian: “Tuksonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tusonas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tucson”
  • Macedonian: “Тусон”
  • Malagasy: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Malagasy: “Tucson”
  • Malay: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Malay: “Tucson”
  • Maltese: “Tucson”
  • Marathi: “तुसॉन”
  • Mazanderani: “توسان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tucson”
  • Mingrelian: “თუსონი”
  • Mingrelian: “ტუსონი”
  • Moksha: “Тусон”
  • Mongolian: “Тусон”
  • Navajo: “Tó Oostsʼąʼ”
  • Newari: “टक्सन, एरिजोना”
  • Newari: “टक्सन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tucson”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tucson”
  • Norwegian: “Tucson”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tucson”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tūsōn”
  • Ossetian: “Тусон”
  • Pampanga: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Pampanga: “Tucson”
  • Persian: “توسان”
  • Piemontese: “Tucson”
  • Polish: “Tucson”
  • Portuguese: “Tucson”
  • Romanian: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Romanian: “Tucson”
  • Russian: “Тусон”
  • Sardinian: “Tucson”
  • Scots: “Tucson”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tucson”
  • Serbian: “Тусон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tucson”
  • Silesian: “Tucson”
  • Sindhi: “توسان”
  • Sinhala: “ටක්සන්”
  • Slovak: “Tucson”
  • Slovenian: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Slovenian: “Tucson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “توسان، آریزونا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “توسان”
  • Spanish: “Tucson (Arizona)”
  • Spanish: “Tucson”
  • Spanish: “Tucsón”
  • Swahili: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Swahili: “Tucson”
  • Swedish: “Tucson”
  • Tagalog: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Tagalog: “Tucson”
  • Tajik: “Тусон”
  • Talysh: “Tuson”
  • Tamil: “டக்சன்”
  • Tatar: “Тусон”
  • Telugu: “టుక్సన్”
  • Thai: “ทูซอน”
  • Turkish: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Turkish: “Tucson”
  • Twi: “Tucson”
  • Ukrainian: “Тусон”
  • Urdu: “ٹسکن، اریزونا”
  • Urdu: “ٹوسان، ایریزونا”
  • Uzbek: “Tucson”
  • Venetian: “Tucson”
  • Veps: “Tuson”
  • Vietnamese: “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Vietnamese: “Tucson”
  • Vlax Romani: “Tucson”
  • Volapük: “Tucson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tucson, Arizona”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tucson”
  • Welsh: “Tucson”
  • Western Frisian: “Tucson”
  • Western Mari: “Тусон”
  • Wu Chinese: “图森（亚利桑那州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “图森”
  • Yakut: “Тусон”
  • Yoruba: “Tucson”
  • Yue Chinese: “圖森”
  • “Tucson”

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