Ottawa
Ottawa is Canada's capital. With over a million citizens, it is Canada's fourth-largest city, and Ontario's second-largest city. Across the Ottawa River is Gatineau, Quebec.Photo: Allice Hunter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: City with 934,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Canada
- Neighbors: Arnprior, Gatineau, Prescott-Russell and Russell
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Photo: SimonP, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Library and Archives Canada
Library
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Library and Archives Canada is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada.
National Gallery of Canada
Art gallery
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The National Gallery of Canada, located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Museum
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The Canadian Museum of Nature is a national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region.
Localities in the Area
Gatineau
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Gatineau is a city in the Outaouais region of Quebec, across the Ottawa River from Canada's capital, Ottawa.
Vanier
Suburb
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Vanier, formerly Eastview, is a neighbourhood in the Rideau-Vanier Ward of the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Centretown
Suburb
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Centretown is a neighbourhood in Somerset Ward, in central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Ottawa
- Categories: census division of Canada, census subdivision, single-tier municipality, capital city, big city, million city, human settlement, planned community and locality
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.4209° or 45° 25' 15" northLongitude
-75.6901° or 75° 41' 24" westPopulation
934,000Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)IATA airport code
YOWUnited Nations Location Code
CA OTTOpen Location Code
87Q6C8C5+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 18886011OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6094817Wikidata ID
Q1930Ottawa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ottawa
- Achinese: Ottawa
- Adyghe: Оттава
- Afar: Ottava
- Afrikaans: Ottawa
- Akan: Ottawa
- Albanian: Otaua
- Albanian: Ottawa
- Amharic: ኦታዋ
- Arabic: Ottawa
- Arabic: أوتاوا
- Aragonese: Ottawa
- Armenian: Օտտավա
- Arpitan: Ottawa
- Asturian: Ottawa
- Atikamekw: Ottawa
- Avaric: Оттава
- Aymara: Ottawa
- Azerbaijani: Ottava
- Balinese: Ottawa
- Bashkir: Оттава
- Basque: Ottawa
- Bavarian: Ottawa
- Belarusian: Атава
- Bengali: অটোয়া
- Bengali: ওটাওয়া
- Bengali: ওটোয়া
- Bhojpuri: ओटावा, ओंटैरियो
- Bhojpuri: ओटावा
- Bhojpuri: ओट्टावा
- Bosnian: Ottawa
- Breton: Ottawa
- Bulgarian: Отава
- Burmese: အော့တဝမြို့
- Catalan: Ottawa
- Cebuano: Ottawa
- Central Kurdish: ئۆتاوا
- Chavacano: Ottawa
- Chechen: Оттава
- Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏩ, ᎨᎾᏓ
- Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏩ
- Chinese: Ottawa
- Chinese: 渥太华
- Chinese: 渥太華
- Church Slavic: Отава
- Chuvash: Оттава
- Cornish: Ottawa
- Corsican: Ottawa
- Crimean Tatar: Ottava
- Croatian: Ottawa
- Czech: Ottawa
- Danish: Ottawa
- Dimli (individual language): Ottawa
- Dotyali: ओटोवा
- Dutch: Ottawa
- Egyptian Arabic: اوتاوا
- English: Bytown
- English: City of Ottawa
- English: Ottawa, ON
- English: Ottawa, Ontario
- Erzya: Оттава ош
- Esperanto: Otavo
- Estonian: Ottawa
- Extremaduran: Ottawa
- Faroese: Ottawa
- Fiji Hindi: Ottawa
- Finnish: Ottawa
- French: Bytown
- French: Ottawa
- French: Ville d'Ottawa
- Friulian: Ottawa
- Galician: Otava
- Galician: Ottawa
- Georgian: ოტავა
- German: Bytown
- German: Ottawa
- German: Ottawa, Ontario, Kanada
- Gothic: 𐍉𐍄𐍄𐌰𐍅𐌰
- Greek: AA¬²±
- Greek: Οττάβα
- Greek: Οτταβα
- Guarani: Ottawa
- Guianese Creole French: Otawa
- Gujarati: ઓટાવા
- Haitian: Otawa
- Hakka Chinese: Ottawa
- Hausa: Ottawa
- Hebrew: אוטווה
- Hindi: ओटावा
- Hungarian: Ottawa
- Icelandic: Ottawa
- Ido: Ottawa
- Indonesian: Bytown
- Indonesian: Ottawa
- Interlingua: Ottawa
- Interlingue: Ottawa
- Inuktitut: ᐊᑐᕚ/atavaa
- Irish: Ottawa
- Italian: Ottawa
- Jamaican Creole English: Atawa
- Japanese: オタワ
- Japanese: チューリップ・シティ
- Javanese: Ottawa
- Kabyle: Ottawa
- Kalaallisut: Ottawa
- Kannada: ಆಟ್ಟಾವಾ
- Kannada: ಒಟ್ಟಾವ
- Kara-Kalpak: Ottava
- Kazakh: Оттава
- Kazakh: Оттава қаласы
- Khmer: អូតាវ៉ា
- Kirghiz: Оттава
- Korean: 오타와
- Kurdish: Ottawa
- Ladino: Ottawa
- Latin: Ottava
- Latin: Ottavia
- Latvian: Otava
- Ligurian: Ottawa
- Limburgan: Ottawa
- Lingala: Ottawa
- Lingua Franca Nova: Ottawa
- Literary Chinese: 渥太華
- Lithuanian: Otava
- Livvi: Ottava
- Lombard: Ottawa
- Low German: Ottawa
- Lower Sorbian: Ottawa
- Luxembourgish: Ottawa
- Macedo-Romanian: Ottawa
- Macedonian: Отава
- Malagasy: Ottawa
- Malay: Ottawa
- Malayalam: ഓട്ടവ
- Maltese: Ottawa
- Marathi: ओटावा
- Mazanderani: اوتآوآ
- Mazanderani: اوتاوا
- Min Dong Chinese: Ottawa
- Min Nan Chinese: Ottawa
- Mingrelian: ოტავა
- Moksha: Оттава
- Mongolian: Оттава
- Moroccan Arabic: ؤطاوا
- Narom: Ottawa
- Navajo: Tótsoh Nílį́
- Northern Frisian: Ottawa
- Northern Luri: اتاوا
- Norwegian: Ottawa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ottawa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ottawa
- Novial: Ottawa
- Occitan (post 1500): Ottawa
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ottawa
- Oriya: ଓଟାୱା
- Ossetian: Оттавæ
- Panjabi: ਓਟਾਵਾ
- Papiamento: Ottawa
- Pedi: Ottawa
- Pennsylvania German: Ottawa
- Persian: اتاوا
- Picard: Ottawa
- Piemontese: Ottawa
- Polish: Ottawa
- Pontic: Οττάβα
- Portuguese: Cidade de Ottawa
- Portuguese: Otava
- Portuguese: Ottawa
- Portuguese: Ottawa, Canadá
- Portuguese: Ottawa, Ontário
- Pushto: آټاوا
- Quechua: Ottawa
- Romanian: Ottawa
- Romansh: Ottawa
- Russia Buriat: Оттава
- Russian: Оттава
- Samoan: Ottawa
- Samogitian: Otava
- Sardinian: Ottawa
- Saterfriesisch: Ottawa
- Scots: Ottawa
- Scottish Gaelic: Ottawa
- Serbian: Отава
- Serbo-Croatian: Ottawa
- Shona: Ottawa
- Sicilian: Ottawa
- Silesian: Ottawa
- Sinhala: ඔටාවා
- Sinhala: ඕටවා
- Slovak: Ottawa
- Slovenian: Ottawa
- Somali: Ottawa
- South Azerbaijani: اوتاوا
- Spanish: Ciudad de Ottawa
- Spanish: Otawa
- Spanish: Ottawa
- Spanish: Ottawa (Canadá)
- Spanish: Ottawa (Ontario)
- Swahili: Ottawa
- Swedish: Ottawa
- Swiss German: Ottawa
- Tachelhit: Uṭawa
- Tagalog: Ottawa
- Tajik: Оттава
- Talysh: Ottava
- Tamil: ஒட்டவா
- Tamil: ஒட்டாவா
- Tatar: Ottawa
- Tatar: Оттава
- Telugu: అటావా
- Thai: ออตตาวา
- Tibetan: ཨོ་ཏ་ཝ།
- Tok Pisin: Ottawa
- Tosk Albanian: Ottawa
- Turkish: Ottava
- Turkish: Ottawa
- Turkmen: Ottawa
- Twi: Ottawa
- Udmurt: Оттава
- Uighur: Ottawa
- Ukrainian: Оттава
- Upper Sorbian: Ottawa
- Urdu: اوٹاوا
- Uzbek: Ottava
- Venetian: Ottawa
- Veps: Ottav
- Vietnamese: Ottawa
- Vlaams: Ottawa
- Volapük: Ottawa
- Waray (Philippines): Ottawa
- Welsh: Ottawa
- Western Frisian: Ottawa
- Western Panjabi: اوٹاوا
- Western Panjabi: اٹاوہ
- Wolof: Ottawa
- Wu Chinese: 渥太华
- Yakut: Оттава
- Yiddish: אטאווא
- Yoruba: Ottawa
- Yue Chinese: 渥太華
- Zeeuws: Ottawa
- Zhuang: Ottawa
- Ottahua
- ma tomo Alawa
Other Places Named Ottawa
In the Area
Ottawa is situated close to the neighbourhoods Golden Triangle and ByWard Market.
- Sandy HillSuburb
- Lower TownSuburb
- Richmond LandingLocality
- Old Ottawa EastSuburb
- ChinatownNeighbourhood
- Lebreton FlatsNeighbourhood
Escape to a Random Place
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