Sylvania literally means 'forest land' in Latin. It is used to mean several different things:

• Sylvania is the name of several places in the United States of America and elsewhere:
  • Sylvania, Alabama, USA
  • Sylvania, Georgia, USA
  • Sylvania, Ohio, USA
  • Sylvania Wilderness is a Federal Wilderness Area in Michigan
  • Pennsylvania is a US state whose name means Penn's Woods.
  • Sylvania, New South Wales and Sylvania Waters, New South Wales, suburbs of Sydney, Australia
• Sylvania Waters is the name of a 1992 Australian reality television show.
• Sylvania is the name of a company manufacturing electrical devices; once a subsidiary of General Telephone and Electronics, it now is a subsidiary of the German company Osram, itself a subsidiary of Siemens AG (SI-NYSE).
• Sylvania is a fictional country from the movie Duck Soup.
• Sylvania is the fictional home to the Sylvanian Families toy line.
• Sylvania is the name of an imperial province infested with vampires in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game.

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