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Valparaiso

Valparaiso is a city of 43,000 people in Porter County, in . It is home to namesake Valparaiso University. The university is a cultural center of the city, hosting venues such as the Brauer Museum of Art, home to more than 2,700 pieces of 19th- and 20th century American art…
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  • Type: City with 34,200 residents
  • Description: city in Porter County, Indiana, United States
  • Also known as: “Portersville”, “Valparaiso, IN”, and “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Postal codes: 46383-46385

Places of Interest

Highlights include Christopher Center and Porter County Memorial Opera Hall.

Library
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Library is the library on the campus of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. The is Valparaiso's fourth library and replaces the former Henry F.

Theater building
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Porter County Memorial Hall, also known as Memorial Opera House, is an historic Grand Army of the Republic memorial hall located in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Courthouse
is in Valparaiso, . The current building replaced the brick building in 1883. The current building is 128 feet by 98 feet.

Valparaiso

Latitude
41.4673° or 41° 28′ 2″ north
Longitude
-87.0604° or 87° 3′ 38″ west
Population
34,200
Elevation
794 feet (242 metres)
Named after
Valparaíso
IATA airport code
VPZ
United Nations Location Code
US VPZ
Open location code
86HJFW8Q+WR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153469795
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4927537
Wiki­data ID
Q868888
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Valparaiso” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Albanian: “Valparaiso”
  • Arabic: “فالبارايسو”
  • Armenian: “Վալպարաիսո”
  • Asturian: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Asturian: “Valparaiso”
  • Basque: “Valparaiso”
  • Catalan: “Valparaiso”
  • Cebuano: “Valparaiso”
  • Chechen: “Валперейзо”
  • Chinese: “Valparaiso”
  • Chinese: “瓦尔帕莱索”
  • Chinese: “瓦爾帕萊索”
  • Czech: “Valparaiso”
  • Dagbani: “Valparaiso”
  • Danish: “Valparaiso”
  • Dutch: “Valparaiso”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فالبارايسو”
  • Estonian: “Valparaiso”
  • Finnish: “Valparaiso”
  • French: “Valparaiso”
  • Galician: “Valparaiso”
  • German: “Valparaiso”
  • Gilaki: “والپریزو (اينديانا)”
  • Gilaki: “والپریزو”
  • Haitian: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Haitian: “Valparaiso”
  • Hindi: “वल्पराइसो, इंडियाना”
  • Hindi: “वल्पराइसो”
  • Hungarian: “Valparaiso”
  • Ido: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Ido: “Valparaiso”
  • Inari Sami: “Valparaiso”
  • Irish: “Valparaiso”
  • Italian: “Valparaiso”
  • Japanese: “ヴァルパレーゾ”
  • Korean: “밸퍼레이조”
  • Ladin: “Valparaiso”
  • Malagasy: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Malagasy: “Valparaiso”
  • Mazanderani: “والپرایزو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Valparaiso”
  • Northern Sami: “Valparaiso”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Valparaiso”
  • Norwegian: “Valparaiso”
  • Persian: “والپرایزو، ایندیانا”
  • Persian: “والپرایزو”
  • Polish: “Valparaiso”
  • Portuguese: “Valparaiso”
  • Russian: “Валпарейзо”
  • Russian: “Вальпараисо”
  • Serbian: “Valparaiso”
  • Serbian: “Валпарејсо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valparaiso”
  • Skolt Sami: “Valparaiso”
  • Slovak: “Valparaiso”
  • Slovenian: “Valparaiso”
  • South Azerbaijani: “والپرایزو، ایندیانا”
  • Spanish: “Valparaiso (Indiana)”
  • Spanish: “Valparaíso”
  • Swedish: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Swedish: “Valparaiso”
  • Tatar: “Валперейзо”
  • Turkish: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Turkish: “Valparaiso”
  • Ukrainian: “Валперейзо”
  • Urdu: “ولپراسیو، انڈیانا”
  • Urdu: “ولپراسیو”
  • Uzbek: “Valparaiso”
  • Uzbek: “Валпараисо”
  • Volapük: “Valparaiso”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Valparaiso”
  • Welsh: “Valparaiso, Indiana”
  • Welsh: “Valparaiso”
  • “Valparaiso”

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