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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 .
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  • Type: County with 41,500 residents
  • Description: county in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Wise County”, “Wise County, VA”, and “Wise County, Virginia”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wise and Glamorgan.

Town
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is a town in County, Virginia. The population was 2,970 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of County. It was originally incorporated as the town of Gladeville in 1874.

Locality
is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in Wise County, , United States.

Wise

Latitude
37.0171° or 37° 1′ 1″ north
Longitude
-82.6104° or 82° 36′ 37″ west
Population
41,500
Elevation
2,260 feet (689 metres)
Open location code
869V298Q+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 317004537
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4794277
Wiki­data ID
Q513982
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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: “Wise Kūn”
  • 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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