Wise

Wise County is a county located in the U.S. state of . The county was formed in 1856 from , , and Counties and named for Henry A. Wise, who was the Governor of Virginia at the time. The county seat is in .
  • County with 41,500 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,260 feet (689 metres)
  • Description: county in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as
    “Wise County”
    “Wise County, VA”
    “Wise County, Virginia”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wise and Glamorgan.
is a town in County, Virginia.
is an unincorporated community and coal town…
is an unincorporated community in Wise County, , United States.

Wise

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Latitude
37.0171° or 37° 1′ 1″ north
Longitude
-82.6104° or 82° 36′ 37″ west
Open location code
869V298Q+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Wise” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Wise County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة وايز، فيرجينيا”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة وايز”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه وايز، فيرجينيا”
  • Armenian: “Ուայզ”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Wise”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vayz”
  • Basque: “Wise konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Wise County, Virginia”
  • Bavarian: “Wise County”
  • Belarusian: “Уайз”
  • Bishnupriya: “ৱাইস কাউন্টি, ভার্জিনিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “ৱাইস কাউন্টি”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Wise”
  • Cebuano: “Wise County”
  • Chechen: “Уайз”
  • Chinese: “怀斯县”
  • Chinese: “懷斯縣”
  • Chinese: “懷斯郡”
  • Dutch: “Wise County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Wise”
  • Esperanto: “Wise County”
  • Estonian: “Wise’i maakond”
  • Estonian: “Wisei maakond”
  • Finnish: “Wisen piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Wise”
  • French: “Comté de Wise”
  • French: “Wise County”
  • Georgian: “უაიზის ოლქი”
  • German: “Wise County”
  • Gilaki: “وایز ٚ شأرستان (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “وایز ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז וייז”
  • Hungarian: “Wise megye”
  • Inari Sami: “Wise pirrâdâhkodde”
  • Irish: “Contae Wise”
  • Italian: “contea di Wise”
  • Italian: “Contea di Wise”
  • Italian: “Wise County”
  • Japanese: “ワイズ郡”
  • Korean: “와이즈군”
  • Low German: “Wise County”
  • Mazanderani: “ویس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Wise Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wise Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wise County i Virginia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wise County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wise fylke”
  • Norwegian: “Wise County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ویس، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ویس”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Wise”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Wise”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Wise”
  • Portuguese: “Wise County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Wise, Virginia”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Wise”
  • Russian: “Уайз”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Wise”
  • Serbian: “Wise County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Вајз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wise County, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wise County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Wise”
  • Slovenian: “Wise County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Wise”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Wise”
  • Spanish: “Wise County”
  • Swedish: “Wise County, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Wise County”
  • Tajik: “Вайз”
  • Tatar: “Уайз (округ, Виргиния)”
  • Tatar: “Уайз”
  • Tumbuka: “Wise County, Virginia”
  • Tumbuka: “Wise County”
  • Turkish: “Wise County, Va.”
  • Turkish: “Wise County, VA”
  • Turkish: “Wise County, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Wise County”
  • Turkish: “Wise ilçesi, Va.”
  • Turkish: “Wise ilçesi, VA”
  • Turkish: “Wise ilçesi, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Wise ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Вайз”
  • Urdu: “وائز کاؤنٹی، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “وائز کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Wise”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Wise, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Wise”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Wise, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Wise”
  • Welsh: “Wise County, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Wise County”
  • Western Panjabi: “وائز کاؤنٹی”

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