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About Cincinnati |
The satellite view shows Cincinnati, third largest city in Ohio in the United States. The city (nickname: the Queen City) is located in southwestern Ohio on a hilly landscape along the Ohio River, at the Ohio-Kentucky border opposite Covington and Newport, Kentucky. Cincinnati was founded in 1788, it has been the first American boomtown in the heart of the country in the early nineteenth century to rival the larger coastal cities in size and wealth, but it suffered from economic restructuring and loss of jobs following deindustrialization in the mid-20 century. Today (in 2016) the city has a population of just under 300,000 inhabitants, 2.2 million people live in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area. Cincinnati is home to the main campus of the University of Cincinnati which traces its foundation to the Medical College of Ohio. Procter & Gamble, the world's largest consumer products company has its headquarters in Cincinnati. Cincinnati's main attractions: Places: Downtown Cincinnati (the city's central business district), Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal (passenger railroad station and museum, home to Cincinnati History Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, Omnimax Theater movie house, the Cincinnati Historical Society, Library Duke Energy Children's Museum, and The Cincinnati Railroad Club), Cincinnati Observatory (oldest professional observatory in the United States), Great American Tower at Queen City Square (headquarters of the Great American Insurance Company), Fountain Square (city square lined with shops, restaurants, hotels, and offices), Aronoff Center (performing arts venue), Cincinnati Music Hall (classical music performance), Duke Energy Convention Center (convention center) Museums: National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Freedom Center), Taft Museum of Art (historic building with a fine art museum), Cincinnati Art Museum (one of the oldest art museums in the United States, founded in 1881), Contemporary Arts Center - CAC (art museum with focus on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media) Outdoors: Coney Island (historic fun park with a giant pool) Parks: Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden (second oldest zoo in the United States), Mount Airy Forest (urban reforestation project and largest park in Cincinnati's park system), Ault Park (flower garden and Italian Renaissance-style pavilion) Stadiums: Great American Ball Park (home field of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds), Paul Brown Stadium (home to NFL's Cincinnati Bengals) Just zoom in to see Cincinnati's Central Business District. The Map shows a city map of Cincinnati with expressways, main roads, and streets, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (IATA code: CVG) is situated in Hebron, Kentucky 12.6 mi (20 km) by road, south west of Cincinnati's city center. To find a location use the form below. To view just the map, click on the "Map" button. |
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Standard time zone Eastern (EST): UTC/GMT -5 hoursDaylight Saving Time (EDT) in use from the second Sunday in March, ends on the first Sunday in November; time zone offset: UTC/GMT -4 hours |
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