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Lafayette

city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States
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Summary

Lafayette is a city in the United States[1]. Lafayette ranks in the top 2% of city in the united states entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,224 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Lafayette Parish[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Head of government: Josh Guillory[5]
  • Instance of: big city[6], consolidated city-county[7]
  • Capital: Acadiana[8]
  • Named after: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette[9]
  • Twinned administrative body: Namur[10], Le Cannet[11], Poitiers[12], Agnibilékrou[13]
  • Postal code: 70501[14], 70502[15], 70503[16], 70504[17], 70505[18], 70506[19], 70507[20], 70508[21], 70509[22], 70593[23], 70596[24], 70598[25]
  • Commons category: Lafayette, Louisiana[26]
  • Located in time zone: Central Time Zone[27]
  • Local dialing code: 337[28]
  • Inception: 1821[29]
  • Official website: https://www.lafayettetravel.com/[30]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lafayette, Louisiana[31]
  • Commons gallery: Lafayette, Louisiana[32]
  • Population: 120,623[33], 121,374[34]
  • Office held by head of government: Mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana[35]
  • Capital of: Lafayette Parish[36]
  • Official name: Lafayette[37]
  • Category for people born here: Q11158460[38]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Lafayette, Louisiana[39]
  • Number of households: 50,252[40]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Lafayette, Louisiana[41]
  • Elevation above sea level: 11 m[42]
  • Area: 139.628847 km²[43], 127.825261 km²[44]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Lafayette include Lafayette Regional Airport[45], an airport[46], in United States[47].

Why It Matters

Lafayette has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] Lafayette is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

Entities named for Lafayette include Lafayette Regional Airport[45], an airport[46], in United States[47].

Related Entities

Addison Rae Armand Duplantis Danneel Ackles Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Le Cannet Remington College United States University of Louisiana at Lafayette

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . lafayettela.gov. Retrieved . lafayettela.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → Central Time Zone
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46713|batch #46713]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Website → —
    Water as percent of area → {'unit': 'Q11229', 'amount': '+0.2478'}
    Instance of → city in the United States, big city, consolidated city-county
    Capital → —
    + 36 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: lafayette-la, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289946966|lafayette la (#289946966)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
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