Wendell
Wendell is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. It is a satellite town of Raleigh, the state capital. The population was 9,793 as of the 2020 census, and was estimated at 19,687 in 2025.- Type: Village with 9,790 residents
- Description: town in North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Wendel”, “Wendell, NC”, “Wendell, North Carolina”, and “Wенделл”
- Postal code: 27591
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zebulon.
Zebulon
Village
The capital of North Carolina and the largest city of the Research Triangle, Raleigh is the primary political and economic driver of the metro area. Indeed, business and politics are the main draws to Raleigh, which lacks the more trendy feel or active arts scene of Durham or Chapel Hill to the west. Zebulon is situated 4 miles northeast of Wendell.
Wendell
- Categories: town in the United States, city of North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Marks Creek Township, Wake, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.78099° or 35° 46′ 52″ north
Longitude
-78.36972° or 78° 22′ 11″ west
Population
9,790
Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US WDX
Open location code
8773QJJJ+94
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Wendell” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وينديل”
- Basque: “Wendell”
- Catalan: “Wendell”
- Cebuano: “Wendell”
- Chechen: “Венделл”
- Chinese: “文德爾 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “文德爾”
- Dutch: “Wendell”
- French: “Wendell”
- German: “Wendell”
- Gilaki: “وندل (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “وندل”
- Haitian: “Wendell, Kawolin dinò”
- Italian: “Wendell”
- Japanese: “ウェンデル”
- Korean: “웬들”
- Ladin: “Wendell”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wendell”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wendell”
- Norwegian: “Wendell”
- Persian: “وندل، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “وندل”
- Polish: “Wendell”
- Portuguese: “Wendell”
- Russian: “Вендл”
- Russian: “Уэнделл”
- Serbian: “Вендл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wendell, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wendell”
- South Azerbaijani: “وندل، قوزئی کارولینا”
- Spanish: “Wendell”
- Swedish: “Wendell, North Carolina”
- Swedish: “Wendell”
- Tatar: “Венделл”
- Ukrainian: “Венделл”
- Urdu: “وینڈل، شمالی کیرولائنا”
- Uzbek: “Wendell”
- Volapük: “Wendell”
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