Wanchese
Wanchese is a census-designated place on Roanoke Island in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It was named after Wanchese, the last known ruler of the Roanoke Native American tribe encountered by English colonists in the sixteenth century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,520 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Dare County, North Carolina
- Also known as: “Wanchese, NC” and “Wanchese, North Carolina”
- Postal code: 27981
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manteo.
Manteo
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
Manteo is a town in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Much of the fun in visiting Manteo, as with most of the Outer Banks, is visiting during the summer.
Wanchese
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Nags Head Township, Dare, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.84267° or 35° 50′ 34″ northLongitude
-75.63851° or 75° 38′ 19″ westPopulation
1,520Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)United Nations Location Code
US QWAOpen location code
8776R9V6+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 157552966OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wanchese” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وانشيز”
- Basque: “Wanchese”
- Catalan: “Wanchese”
- Cebuano: “Wanchese”
- Chechen: “Ванчиз”
- Chinese: “Wanchese”
- Chinese: “旺奇斯 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “旺奇斯”
- Dutch: “Wanchese”
- French: “Wanchese”
- German: “Wanchese”
- Gilaki: “وانچس (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “وانچس”
- Irish: “Wanchese”
- Italian: “Wanchese”
- Ladin: “Wanchese”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wanchese”
- Persian: “وانچس، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “وانچس”
- Polish: “Wanchese”
- Portuguese: “Wanchese”
- Serbian: “Wanchese, North Carolina”
- Serbian: “Wanchese”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wanchese, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wanchese”
- Spanish: “Wanchese”
- Tatar: “Ванчиз”
- Ukrainian: “Ванчиз”
- Uzbek: “Wanchese, North Carolina”
- Uzbek: “Wanchese”
- Uzbek: “Wанчесе”
- Volapük: “Wanchese, North Carolina”
- Volapük: “Wanchese”
- Welsh: “Wanchese, Gogledd Carolina”
- Welsh: “Wanchese”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wanchese”. Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY-SA 3.0.