Sylvania (Latin for "forest land" or "woods") may refer to:

Companies trading as Sylvania

Sylvania Electric Products Sylvania Electric Products Inc. was an American manufacturer of diverse electrical equipment, including at various times radio transceivers, vacuum tubes, semiconductors, and mainframe computers such as MOBIDIC. They were one of the companies in ...

, a former major American diversified electrical and electronics manufacturer *

Sylvania (brand) Sylvania is a Canadian multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company is owned in North America by Osram Sylvania and, outside of North America, Feilo Sylvania. The two license the brand to other c ...

, its Canadian lighting products division which continues to license to both Havells Sylvania and Osram Sylvania *

Osram Sylvania Osram Sylvania Inc. is the North American operation of lighting manufacturer Osram. It was established in January 1993, with the acquisition of GTE's Sylvania lighting division by Osram GmbH. In 2016, Osram spun off its general lighting business ...

, an American lighting manufacturer owned by Osram AG of Germany *

Sylvania Lighting Osram Sylvania Inc. is the North American operation of lighting manufacturer Osram. It was established in January 1993, with the acquisition of GTE's Sylvania lighting division by Osram GmbH. In 2016, Osram spun off its general lighting business ...

, an international lighting manufacturer owned by Shanghai Feilo Acoustics Ltd

Education

* Sylvania City School District, in Northwest Ohio, United States * Sylvania High School, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Places

United States

* Sylvania, Alabama * Sylvania, Arkansas *

Sylvania, Georgia Sylvania is a city in and the county seat of Screven County, Georgia, Screven County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. The population was 2,634 in 2020. History The area was inhabited for thousands of years by various cultures of ind ...

* Sylvania, Indiana * Sylvania, Louisville, Kentucky * Sylvania, Missouri *

Sylvania, Ohio Sylvania is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States. The population was 19,011 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Sylvania is a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, Toledo, and encompassed by Sylvania Township, Lucas County, Ohio, Sylvania Town ...

Sylvania, Pennsylvania Sylvania is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 216 at the 2020 census. Children residing in the borough are assigned to attend the Troy Area School District. Ge ...

* Sylvania, Wisconsin * Mount Sylvania, in Oregon * Sylvania Mountains, in California and Nevada *

Sylvania Township (disambiguation) Sylvania Township may refer to the following places: * Sylvania Township, Scott County, Missouri Scott County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,059. Its ...

Sylvania Wilderness Sylvania Wilderness is an protected area located a few miles west of Watersmeet Township, Michigan. Sylvania is located entirely within the bounds of the Ottawa National Forest, and is currently being managed as a wilderness area as part of ...

, in Michigan

Other places

Sylvania, New South Wales Sylvania is a suburb in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district in the Sutherland Shire. It is well known for its large waterfront properties and restaurants. Sylvania is mostly residential bu ...

, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Sylvania, Saskatchewan, Canada

Fictional locations

* Sylvania (''Warhammer''), the fictitious realm of the Vampire Counts in the ''Warhammer Fantasy Battle'' game * Sylvania, a fictional country from the movie ''Duck Soup'' (1933) * Sylvania, a fictional country from the comedy film ''

The Love Parade ''The Love Parade'' is a 1929 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, involving the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (MacDonal ...

'' (1929) * Sylvania, the fictional home of the

Sylvanian Families (known as ''Calico Critters'' in the US) is a line of collectible anthropomorphic animal Action figure, figurines made of flocked plastic. They were created by the Japanese gaming company Epoch (company), Epoch in 1985 and distributed worldwide ...

toy line

Ships

* , an American lake freighter * , a British ocean liner * , various ships of the United States Navy

Other uses

519 Sylvania 519 Sylvania is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the main belt. It was discovered on 20 October 1903 by American astronomer R. S. Dugan at the Heidelberg observatory. The name is Latin for ''forest lands''. 519 Sylvania is orbiting the Sun at ...

, an asteroid *

Sylvania (McCormick County, South Carolina) Sylvania in McCormick County, South Carolina, near Bradley, South Carolina, was built in 1825. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The house is thought to have been built in 1825 by John Hearst, the great-uncle o ...

, an historic house *

Sylvania Airport Sylvania Airport is a privately owned public use airport located near Sylvania, an unincorporated community 3 miles (5 km) west of the central business district of the village of Sturtevant, in Racine County, Wisconsin, United Stat ...

, in Wisconsin *

Sylvania Watkins Sylvania "Sly" Watkins (born February 18, 1985) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Moncton Tri City Tide of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL). He played college basketball at Okaloosa–Walton ...

(born 1985), American basketball player *

The Sylvania The Sylvania is a historic apartment building located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1906, and consists of two three-story, detached glazed brick and grey limestone buildings. It features Renaissance Revival style door and window surro ...

, an historic apartment building in Indianapolis, Indiana * ''Sylvania'', a genus of bacteria in the family

Enterobacteriaceae Enterobacteriaceae is a large family (biology), family of Gram-negative bacteria. It includes over 30 genera and more than 100 species. Its classification above the level of Family (taxonomy), family is still a subject of debate, but one class ...