Lexington
Lexington is the second largest city in Kentucky, located in the Bluegrass Region. Known as the Horse Capital of the World, Lexington has traditionally been dominated by the horse industry and is also heavily influenced by the University of Kentucky, the state's flagship university and the largest employer in the city.Photo: Madgeek1450, Public domain.
- Type: City with 323,000 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States
- Postal codes: 40502-40517, 40522-40524, 40526, 40533, 40536, 40544, 40546, 40550, 40555, 40574-40583, 40588 and 40591
Notable Places in the Area
Rupp Arena
Photo: Analogue Kid, CC BY 2.5.
Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center is an arena located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
Lexington Opera House
Photo: Tamanoeconomico, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lexington Opera House is a theatre located at 401 West Short Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
Pope Villa
38°02′22″N 84°29′45″W / 38.039476°N 84.495796°W The Pope Villa in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1811 for Senator John Pope.Localities in the Area
Liberty Heights
Liberty Heights is a neighborhood in southeastern Lexington, Kentucky, United States.Speigle Heights
Speigle Heights is a neighborhood just northwest of downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States.Lexington
- Categories: city in the United States, big city and locality
- Location: Fayette, Bluegrass Region, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.0464° or 38° 2' 47" northLongitude
-84.497° or 84° 29' 49" westPopulation
323,000Elevation
295 metres (968 feet)IATA airport code
LEXUnited Nations Location Code
US LEXOpen Location Code
86CQ2GW3+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 154320458OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4297983Wikidata ID
Q49241Lexington Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Lexington, Kentucky
- Afrikaans: Lexington
- Arabic: Lexington, Kentucky
- Arabic: ليكسنقتون
- Arabic: ليكسينغتون
- Aragonese: Lexington
- Armenian: Լեքսինգթոն
- Armenian: Լեքսինգտոն
- Asturian: Lexington, Kentucky
- Asturian: Lexington
- Azerbaijani: Leksinqton
- Bambara: Lexington
- Basque: Lexington (Kentucky)
- Basque: Lexington
- Belarusian: Лексынгтан
- Belarusian: Лексінгтан
- Bengali: লেক্সিংটন, কেন্টাকি
- Breton: Lexington
- Bulgarian: Лексингтън
- Catalan: Lexington
- Cebuano: Lexington (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Kentucky)
- Cebuano: Lexington
- Chechen: Лексингтон (Кентукки)
- Chechen: Лексингтон
- Chinese: Lexington
- Chinese: 列克星敦
- Chinese: 列星頓
- Cornish: Lexington, Kentucky
- Czech: Lexington
- Dagbani: Lexington
- Danish: Lexington
- Dutch: Lexington
- Egyptian Arabic: ليكسينجتون
- English: Lexington, KY
- English: Lexington, Kentucky
- Esperanto: Leksingtono
- Esperanto: Lexington
- Estonian: Lexington
- Faroese: Lexington (Kentucky)
- Faroese: Lexington
- Finnish: Lexington
- French: Lexington
- Galician: Lexington
- Georgian: ლექსინგტონი
- German: Horse Capital of the World
- German: Lexington
- Greek: Λέξινγκτον (Κεντάκι)
- Greek: Λέξινγκτον, Κεντάκι
- Greek: Λέξινγκτον
- Gujarati: લેક્સિંગ્ટન
- Haitian: Lexington, Kentucky
- Hebrew: לקסינגטון
- Hindi: लेक्सिंगटन
- Hungarian: Lexington
- Icelandic: Lexington (Kentucky)
- Ido: Lexington, Kentucky
- Ido: Lexington
- Indonesian: Lexington, Kentucky
- Interlingua: Lexington
- Irish: Lexington, Kentucky
- Italian: Lexington
- Japanese: レキシントン
- Japanese: レクシントン
- Kannada: ಲೆಕ್ಸಿಂಗ್ಟನ್
- Kazakh: Лексингтон
- Kirghiz: Лексингтон
- Korean: 렉싱턴
- Ladin: Lexington (Kentucky)
- Ladin: Lexington
- Latin: Lexintonia
- Latvian: Leksingtona
- Lithuanian: Leksingtonas
- Luxembourgish: Lexington
- Malagasy: Lexington, Kentucky
- Malagasy: Lexington
- Malay: Lexington
- Malayalam: ലെക്സിങ്ടൺ
- Marathi: लेक्झिंग्टन
- Marathi: लेक्सिंग्टन
- Min Nan Chinese: Lexington, Kentucky
- Moksha: Лэксингтон
- Navajo: Haltsooí Háálį́
- Norwegian: Lexington
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lexington
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lexington i Kentucky
- Occitan (post 1500): Lexington
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Leaxingatūn (Centuccīg)
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Leaxingatūn
- Ossetian: Лексингтон (Кентукки)
- Ossetian: Лексингтон
- Persian: لکزینگتون
- Persian: لکسینگتون، کنتاکی
- Piemontese: Lexington (Kentucky)
- Piemontese: Lexington
- Polish: Lexington
- Portuguese: Lexington
- Romanian: Lexington, Kentucky
- Russian: Лексингтон
- Santali: ᱞᱮᱠᱥᱥᱤᱝᱴᱳᱱ
- Santali: ᱞᱮᱠᱷᱤᱝᱴᱳᱱ
- Sardinian: Lexington
- Scots: Lexington
- Scottish Gaelic: Lexington, Kentucky
- Serbian: Лексингтон
- Serbo-Croatian: Lexington, Kentucky
- Serbo-Croatian: Lexington
- Silesian: Lexington
- Sinhala: ලේක්සින්ග්ටන්
- Slovak: Lexington
- Slovenian: Lexington
- South Azerbaijani: لکزینقتون
- South Azerbaijani: لکزینگتون
- Spanish: Lexington
- Spanish: Lexington (Kentucky)
- Swahili: Lexington, Kentucky
- Swedish: Lexington, Kentucky
- Swedish: Lexington
- Tagalog: Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky
- Tagalog: Lexington-Fayette
- Tamil: லெக்சிங்டன்
- Tatar: Лексиңтон
- Telugu: లెక్సింగ్టన్
- Thai: เลกซิงตัน
- Turkish: Lexington, Kentucky
- Turkish: Lexington
- Ukrainian: Лексингтон
- Ukrainian: Лексинґтон
- Urdu: لیزینجتون
- Urdu: لیکسنگٹن
- Urdu: لیکسنگٹن، کینٹکی
- Uzbek: Lexington
- Venetian: Lexington
- Vietnamese: Lexington, Kentucky
- Vietnamese: Lexington
- Volapük: Lexington
- Waray (Philippines): Lexington, Kentucky
- Welsh: Lexington, Kentucky
- Wu Chinese: 列克星敦 (肯塔基州)
- Yue Chinese: 列星頓
- Lexington-Fayette Urban County
- Лексінгтон
- 列克星敦(肯塔基州)
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