New Orleans
Way down yonder in New Orleans, you'll find the roots of jazz and a blossoming culture that is unlike anything else on Earth. Here, the laid-back atmosphere of the riverfront South has mixed with French sophistication, Spanish style, and African-American energy to create something greater than the sum of its parts.Photo: briangratwicke, CC BY 2.0.
Popular Destinations
French Quarter
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The French Quarter is the oldest and most famous and visited neighborhood of New Orleans.
Uptown New Orleans
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Uptown is a large portion of New Orleans settled in the 19th century after the Louisiana Purchase, upriver from the older parts of the city around the French Quarter and the Central Business District.
Faubourg Marigny
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The Faubourg Marigny, commonly just Marigny, is a hip neighborhood just "below" the French Quarter.
Destinations
Central Business District
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The Central Business District is the part of New Orleans similar to what many cities call "Downtown".
Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge
Mid-City is a portion of New Orleans in the center of the metropolitan area, about midway between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.Tremé
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Tremé is an old historically African-American and Créole neighborhood of New Orleans, just "back" from the French Quarter.
Carrollton
Carrollton is the section of New Orleans that is at the far end of Uptown from the French Quarter, between the Audubon & University District of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish.Bywater
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The Bywater is a portion of New Orleans down the Mississippi River from the French Quarter and the Faubourg Marigny.
Audubon and University
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The Audubon and University District of New Orleans is the location of the city's famous Audubon Park including the Audubon Zoo, Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans.
7th, 8th, and Upper 9th Wards
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The 7th 8th and Upper 9th Wards section of New Orleans is very seldom visited by anyone outside the city.
Lower 9th Ward
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The Lower 9th Ward is a section of New Orleans, east of the Bywater neighborhood, north of the Mississippi River, and west St.
Eastern New Orleans
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Eastern New Orleans, sometimes called "New Orleans East", is a large area of New Orleans to the north east of the older central portion of the city.
Lakeview and Lakeshore
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Lakeview and Lakeshore are sections of New Orleans near and along Lake Pontchartrain.
Gentilly
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Gentilly is a large section of New Orleans generally paid little or no attention by visitors.
Central City
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Central City is a section of New Orleans to the west of the Central Business District and north from the downriver section of Uptown.
Notable Places in the Area
Smoothie King Center
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Smoothie King Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana.
New Orleans Mint
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The New Orleans Mint operated in New Orleans, Louisiana, as a branch mint of the United States Mint from 1838 to 1861 and from 1879 to 1909.
New Orleans Museum of Art
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The New Orleans Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans.
Localities in the Area
Mid-City New Orleans
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Mid-City is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.
Storyville
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Storyville was the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 to 1917.
New Orleans
- Type: City with 384,000 residents
- Description: city in Louisiana, United States
- Postal codes: 70112-70119, 70122, 70124-70131, 70139, 70142, 70143, 70145, 70146, 70148, 70150-70154, 70156-70167, 70170, 70172, 70174-70179, 70182, 70184-70187, 70189, 70190 and 70195
- Neighbors: Jefferson Parish, Plaquemines Parish and Saint Bernard Parish
- Categories: city in the United States, big city, consolidated city-county and locality
- Location: City of New Orleans, Orleans, Greater New Orleans, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.976° or 29° 58' 34" northLongitude
-90.0782° or 90° 4' 42" westPopulation
384,000Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)IATA airport code
MSYUnited Nations Location Code
US MSYOpen Location Code
76XFXWGC+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 28110976OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4335045Wikidata ID
Q34404New Orleans Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: New Orleans
- Albanian: New Orleans
- Amharic: ኑ ኦርሌንዝ
- Arabic: New Orleans
- Arabic: أورليان الجديدة
- Arabic: أورليانز الجديدة
- Arabic: نيوأورليانز
- Arabic: نيو أورلينز
- Arabic: نيوأورلينز، لويزيانا
- Arabic: نيو اورليانز
- Aragonese: Nueva Orleans
- Armenian: Նոր Օռլեան
- Armenian: Օռլեան շրջան
- Armenian: Օռլեանս շրջան
- Arpitan: Novèla-Orlèans
- Asturian: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Asturian: Nueva Orleans
- Azerbaijani: Nyu-Orlean
- Azerbaijani: Nyu-Orlean şəhəri
- Basque: La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Basque: New Orleans
- Basque: Nouvelle-Orléans
- Basque: Nouvelle Orleans
- Basque: Orleans Berri
- Basque: Orleans parrokia
- Bavarian: New Orleans
- Belarusian: Новы Арлеан
- Belarusian: Нью-Арлеан
- Bengali: নিউ অরলিন্স
- Bengali: নিউ অর্লিন্স
- Bishnupriya: ওরলেন্স পারিশ, লুইসিয়ানা
- Bishnupriya: ওরলেন্স পারিশ
- Bosnian: New Orleans
- Breton: New Orleans
- Breton: Orleañs Nevez
- Bulgarian: Нови Орлеан
- Bulgarian: Нови Орлеанс
- Bulgarian: Ню Орлеан
- Bulgarian: Ню Орлеанс
- Bulgarian: Ню Орлианс
- Bulgarian: Ню Орлийнз
- Bulgarian: Ню Орлийнс
- Bulgarian: Ню Орлинс
- Bulgarian: Ню Орлиънз
- Bulgarian: Ню Орлиънс
- Cajun French: La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Cajun French: Nouvelle-Orléans
- Catalan: New Orleans
- Catalan: Nova Orleans
- Cebuano: New Orleans
- Central Kurdish: نیوئۆرلەنس
- Chechen: Нью-Орлеан
- Chinese: New Orleans
- Chinese: 奧爾良縣
- Chinese: 新奥尔良/紐奧良
- Chinese: 新奥尔良
- Chinese: 新奥尔良市
- Chinese: 新奧爾良
- Chinese: 新奧爾良城
- Chinese: 紐奧爾良
- Chinese: 紐奧良
- Chuvash: Çĕнĕ Орлеан
- Chuvash: Çĕнě Орлеан
- Chuvash: Çěнě Орлеан
- Chuvash: Нью-Орлеан
- Cornish: New Orleans
- Corsican: New Orleans
- Corsican: Nova Orleans
- Crimean Tatar: Nyu Orleans
- Croatian: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Croatian: New Orleans
- Czech: New Orleans
- Dagbani: New Orleans
- Danish: New Orleans
- Dutch: New Orleans
- Dutch: Nieuw-Orleans
- Dutch: Nieuw-Orléans
- Eastern Mari: У Орлеан
- Egyptian Arabic: نيو اورلينز
- English: Crescent City
- English: NOLA
- English: New Orleans, LA
- English: New Orleans, Louisiana
- English: The Big Easy
- English: new orleans louisiana
- Esperanto: New Orleans
- Esperanto: Nov-Orleano
- Esperanto: Nova Orleano
- Esperanto: Novorleano
- Estonian: New Orleans
- Extremaduran: Nueva Orleans
- Faroese: New Orleans
- Finnish: New Orleans
- French (Historic): La Nouvelle-Orléans
- French: La Nouvelle-Orleans
- French: La Nouvelle-Orléans
- French: La Nouvelle-orléans
- French: La Nouvelle Orleans
- French: La Nouvelle Orléans
- French: New Orleans
- French: Nouvelle-Orléans
- French: Nouvelle Orléans
- French: Paroisse d'Orléans
- Galician: NOLA
- Galician: New Orleans
- Galician: Nova Orleans
- Galician: Nova Orleáns
- Georgian: ახალი ორლეანი
- Georgian: ნიუ-ორლეანი
- German: New-Orleans
- German: New Orleans
- German: Nieuw-Orleans
- Greek: Νέα Ορλεάνη, Λουιζιάνα
- Greek: Νέα Ορλεάνη
- Guarani: New Orleans
- Gujarati: ન્યૂ ઓર્લિયન્સ
- Haitian: New Orleans
- Haitian: Nouvèl Òleyan
- Hebrew: מחוז אורלינס
- Hebrew: ניו-אורלינס
- Hebrew: ניו אורלינז
- Hebrew: ניו אורלינס
- Hindi: न्यू आर्लीन्स
- Hindi: न्यू ओर्लियंस
- Hungarian: New Orleans
- Icelandic: New Orleans
- Ido: New Orleans
- Ido: Nov-Orleans
- Ido: Nova-Orleans
- Inari Sami: New Orleans
- Indonesian: La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Indonesian: New Orleans
- Interlingua: New Orleans
- Interlingue: New Orleans
- Inuktitut: ᓂᐅ ᐆᕐᓖᓐᔅ
- Irish: La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Irish: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Irish: New Orleans
- Irish: Nua-Orléans
- Irish: Nua Orléans
- Italian: New Orleans
- Italian: Nuova Orleans
- Japanese: オーリンズ郡
- Japanese: ニューオリンズ
- Japanese: ニューオーリンズ
- Japanese: ニュー・オーリンズ
- Japanese: ヌーヴェル=オルレアン
- Japanese: ラ・ヌーヴェル=オルレアン
- Kannada: ನ್ಯೂ ಒರ್ಲೀನ್ಸ್
- Kannada: ಹೊಸ ಒರ್ಲೀನ್ಸ್
- Kazakh: Жаңа Орлеан
- Kazakh: Нью-Орлеан
- Kikuyu: New Orleans
- Kirghiz: Жаңы орлеан
- Korean: 뉴 얼리언스
- Korean: 뉴얼리언스
- Korean: 뉴 얼리언즈
- Korean: 뉴얼리언즈
- Korean: 뉴올리언스
- Korean: 뉴 올리언스
- Korean: 뉴올리언즈
- Korean: 뉴 올리언즈
- Korean: 올리언스 사목구
- Kurdish: New Orleans
- Ladin: New Orleans
- Latin: Nova Aurelia
- Latin: Novum Aurelianum
- Latin: Novum Cenabum
- Latvian: Jaunorleāna
- Latvian: Jaunā Orleāna
- Latvian: La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Latvian: New Orleans
- Latvian: Ņuorleāna
- Latvian: Ņūorleāna
- Lingua Franca Nova: Orleans Nova, Louisiana
- Literary Chinese: 新奧爾良
- Lithuanian: Naujasis Orleanas
- Low German: New Orleans
- Low German: Niej-Orleans
- Low German: Niej Orleans
- Luxembourgish: New Orleans
- Macedonian: Њу Орлеанс
- Malagasy: New Orleans
- Malay: New Orleans
- Malayalam: ന്യൂ ഓർലിയൻസ് നഗരം
- Malayalam: ന്യൂ ഓർലിയൻസ് നഗരവും പാരിഷും
- Manx: New Orleans
- Marathi: न्यू ऑर्लिअन्स
- Marathi: न्यू ऑर्लिन्स
- Min Nan Chinese: New Orleans
- Mirandese: Nuoba Orleanes
- Moksha: Од Орлэан
- Mongolian: Нью-Орлеанс
- Narom: La Nouvelle-Orliauns
- Narom: La Nouvelle-Orléauns
- Narom: Nouvelle-Orliauns
- Narom: Nouvelle-Orléauns
- Nauru: New Orleans
- Navajo: Tónteel Biihílį́ Hatsoh
- Navajo: Tónteel Biihílį́ Hátsoh
- Northern Frisian: New Orleans
- Norwegian: New Orleans
- Norwegian Bokmål: New Orleans
- Norwegian Nynorsk: New Orleans
- Occitan (post 1500): New Orleans
- Occitan (post 1500): Nòva Orleans
- Ossetian: Ног Орлеан
- Pampanga: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Papiamento: New Orleans
- Persian: نیو ارلئان
- Persian: نیو اورلئان
- Persian: نیواورلئان
- Persian: نیواورلئان، لوئیزیانا
- Persian: نیو اورلئانز
- Persian: نیو اورلان
- Persian: نیواورلان
- Persian: نیو اورلینز
- Persian: نیواورلینز
- Picard: La Novèle-Orléans
- Picard: Novèle-Orléans
- Piemontese: New Orleans
- Polish: La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Polish: New Orleans
- Polish: Nowy Orlean
- Portuguese: New Orleans
- Portuguese: Nova Orleans
- Portuguese: Nova Orleães
- Portuguese: Nova Orléans
- Quechua: New Orleans
- Romanian: New Orleans
- Russian: New Orleans
- Russian: Новый Орлеан
- Russian: Нью-Орлеан
- Sanskrit: न्यू आर्लीन्स
- Sardinian: New Orleans
- Sardinian: Noa Orleans
- Scots: NOLA
- Scots: New Orleans
- Serbian: New Orleans
- Serbian: Њу Орлеанс
- Serbo-Croatian: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Serbo-Croatian: Orleans Parish, Louisiana
- Serbo-Croatian: Orleans Parish
- Sicilian: New Orleans
- Silesian: Nowy Uorlean
- Sinhala: නිව් ඔර්ලියන්ස්
- Slovak: New Orleans
- Slovenian: New Orleans
- South Azerbaijani: نیو اورلئان
- Spanish: La Nouvelle-Orleans
- Spanish: La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Spanish: La Nouvelle Orleans
- Spanish: La Nouvelle Orléans
- Spanish: New Orleans
- Spanish: New Orleans Louisiana
- Spanish: Nouvelle-Orleans
- Spanish: Nouvelle-Orléans
- Spanish: Nueva Orleans
- Spanish: Nueva Orleans Luisiana
- Spanish: Nueva Orleáns
- Spanish: Nueva Orléans
- Spanish: Parroquia de Orleans
- Swahili: New Orleans
- Swedish: New Orleans
- Swedish: Orleans Parish
- Swiss German: New Orleans
- Tagalog: Bagong Orleans
- Tagalog: New Orleans
- Tajik: Ню-Орлеан
- Tajik: Орлеани Нав
- Tamil: நியூ ஓர்லியன்ஸ்
- Tamil: நியூ ஓர்லீன்ஸ்
- Tamil: நியூ ஓர்லென்ஸ்
- Tatar: Яңа Орлеан
- Telugu: న్యూ ఓర్లీన్స్
- Thai: New Orleans
- Thai: นิวออร์ลีน
- Thai: นิวออร์ลีนส์
- Tosk Albanian: New Orleans
- Turkish: New Orleans
- Turkish: Yeni Orleans
- Twi: New Orleans
- Uighur: Yéngi Orléan
- Uighur: يېڭى ئورلېئان
- Ukrainian: Новий Орлеан
- Ukrainian: Нью-Орлеан
- Urdu: نیو اورلینز
- Uzbek: Yangi Orlean
- Uzbek: Yangi orlean
- Venetian: New Orleans
- Veps: Uz' Orlean
- Veps: Uz Orlean
- Vietnamese: NOLA
- Vietnamese: New Orleans
- Vietnamese: Ngọc Lan
- Vietnamese: Ngọc Lân
- Vietnamese: Quận New Orleans
- Vietnamese: Quận Orleans
- Vlax Romani: New Orleans
- Volapük: New Orleans
- Waray (Philippines): New Orleans
- Welsh: New Orleans
- Welsh: Orleans Newydd
- Welsh: Orleans Parish, Louisiana
- Western Frisian: New Orleans
- Western Frisian: Nij-Orleans
- Western Mari: У Орлеан
- Western Panjabi: اورلینز پارش
- Wu Chinese: 新奥尔良
- Yiddish: ניו ארלינס
- Yoruba: New Orleans
- Yue Chinese: 紐奧良
- Big Easy
- N.O.
- Nawlins
- Neu Orleans
- Neuva Orleans
- Nieuw Orleans
- Nuoba Orleans
- Nû Orleans
- Yancuic Orleans
- Yancuīc Orleans
- Жаңы Орлеан
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