Charleston
Charleston is a city in and the county seat of Coles County, Illinois, United States. The population was 17,286, as of the 2020 census. The city is home to Eastern Illinois University and has close ties with its neighbor, Mattoon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,200 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of Coles County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Charleston, IL” and “Charleston, Illinois”
- Postal code: 61920
Charleston
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Charleston Township, Coles, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.49615° or 39° 29′ 46″ northLongitude
-88.17615° or 88° 10′ 34″ westPopulation
20,200Elevation
669 feet (204 metres)Open location code
86FHFRWF+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 153809420OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4235668Wikidata ID
Q577909
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Charleston” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشارلستون”
- Azerbaijani: “Çarlston”
- Basque: “Charleston”
- Belarusian: “Чарлстан”
- Belarusian: “Чарльстан”
- Bengali: “চার্লসটন”
- Catalan: “Charleston”
- Cebuano: “Charleston (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Illinois)”
- Cebuano: “Charleston”
- Central Kurdish: “چارڵیستن، ئیلینۆی”
- Chechen: “Чарлстон”
- Chinese: “Charleston”
- Chinese: “查尔斯顿”
- Chinese: “查爾斯頓”
- Croatian: “Charleston”
- Czech: “Charleston”
- Dagbani: “Charleston”
- Danish: “Charleston”
- Dutch: “Charleston”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشارلستون”
- French: “Charleston”
- German: “Charleston”
- Gilaki: “چارلستن”
- Haitian: “Charleston, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Charleston”
- Hebrew: “צ’ארלסטון”
- Hungarian: “Charleston”
- Ido: “Charleston, Illinois”
- Ido: “Charleston”
- Irish: “Charleston”
- Italian: “Charleston”
- Japanese: “チャールストン”
- Korean: “찰스턴”
- Ladin: “Charleston”
- Malayalam: “ചാൾസ്റ്റൺ, ഇല്ലിനോയി”
- Malayalam: “ചാൾസ്റ്റൺ”
- Mazanderani: “چارلزتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Charleston”
- Newari: “चार्ल्सटन, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “चार्ल्सटन, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “चार्ल्सटन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Charleston”
- Norwegian: “Charleston”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Charleston”
- Persian: “چارلزتون، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “چارلزتون”
- Polish: “Charleston”
- Portuguese: “Charleston”
- Russian: “Чарлстон”
- Scots: “Charleston, Illinois”
- Scots: “Charleston”
- Serbian: “Чарлстон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Charleston, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Charleston”
- Slovak: “Charleston”
- Slovenian: “Charleston”
- South Azerbaijani: “چارلزتون، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Charleston, Illinois”
- Spanish: “Charleston”
- Swedish: “Charleston, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Charleston”
- Tatar: “Чарлстон (Иллинойс)”
- Tatar: “Чарлстон”
- Turkish: “Charleston, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Charleston”
- Ukrainian: “Чарлстон”
- Urdu: “چارلسٹن، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “چارلسٹن”
- Uzbek: “Charleston”
- Uzbek: “Чарлестон”
- Vietnamese: “Charleston, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Charleston”
- Volapük: “Charleston”
- Waray (Philippines): “Charleston, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Charleston”
- Welsh: “Charleston, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Charleston”
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