Indiana
Tippecanoe
Wabash Township

West Lafayette

West Lafayette is a city in , United States. The population was 44,595 at the 2020 census. West Lafayette sits across the from its sister city, , and is a college town, home to Purdue University.
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  • Type: Town with 44,600 residents
  • Description: city in Indiana, USA
  • Also known as: “Chauncey”, “Kingston”, “West Lafayette, IN”, and “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Postal codes: 47906, 47907, and 47996

Places of Interest

Highlights include West Lafayette Public Library and Engineering Fountain.

Library
Photo: Moon motif, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fountain
Photo: Amerique, CC BY 3.0.
The Purdue Mall Water Sculpture, often referred to as the , is a water sculpture and fountain located at the main campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, .

Church
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church is the Catholic university parish at Purdue University. It is in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana. It is often referred to as "St. Tom's" by parishioners.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lafayette and Barbarry Heights.

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is the county seat of Tippecanoe County, . It is located 2 hours southeast of and 1 hour northwest of . The Greater metropolitan area consists of the cities of and West .

Neighborhood
West Lafayette is a city in , United States. The population was 44,595 at the 2020 census. West Lafayette sits across the from its sister city, , and is a college town, home to Purdue University. is situated 2 miles north of West Lafayette.

Locality
Ouiatenon was a dwelling place of members of the Wea tribe of Native Americans. The name Ouiatenon, also variously given as , Oujatanon, Ouiatano or other similar forms, is a French rendering of a term from the Wea dialect of the Miami-Illinois language which means "place of the people of the whirlpool", an ethnonym for the Wea. is situated 4 miles west of West Lafayette.

West Lafayette

Latitude
40.42587° or 40° 25′ 33″ north
Longitude
-86.90807° or 86° 54′ 29″ west
Population
44,600
Elevation
610 feet (186 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US WLY
Open location code
86GMC3GR+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153386773
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4928096
Wiki­data ID
Q166481
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“West Lafayette” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لافاييت الغربية”
  • Arabic: “ويست لافاييت”
  • Asturian: “West Lafayette”
  • Azerbaijani: “West Lafayette”
  • Basque: “West Lafayette”
  • Belarusian: “Уэст-Лафает”
  • Catalan: “West Lafayette”
  • Cebuano: “West Lafayette”
  • Chechen: “Вест-Лафайетт”
  • Chinese: “West Lafayette”
  • Chinese: “西拉法叶”
  • Chinese: “西拉法葉”
  • Czech: “West Lafayette”
  • Dagbani: “West Lafayette”
  • Danish: “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Danish: “West Lafayette”
  • Dutch: “West Lafayette”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويسانت لافاييت”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويست لافاييت”
  • Estonian: “West Lafayette”
  • French: “West Lafayette”
  • German: “West Lafayette”
  • Gilaki: “وست لافایت (اينديانا)”
  • Gilaki: “وست لافایت”
  • Haitian: “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Haitian: “West Lafayette”
  • Hebrew: “וסט לפאייט”
  • Hindi: “पश्चिमी लफायत, इंडियाना”
  • Hindi: “पश्चिमी लफायत”
  • Hungarian: “West Lafayette”
  • Ido: “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Ido: “West Lafayette”
  • Irish: “West Lafayette”
  • Italian: “West Lafayette”
  • Japanese: “ウェスト・ラファイエット”
  • Japanese: “ウェストラファイエット”
  • Korean: “웨스트라페이엣”
  • Korean: “웨스트라피엣”
  • Ladin: “West Lafayette”
  • Latin: “Lafayette Occidentalis”
  • Malagasy: “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Malagasy: “West Lafayette”
  • Malayalam: “വെസ്റ്റ് ലഫയൈറ്റെ”
  • Mazanderani: “وست لافایت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “West Lafayette”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “West Lafayette”
  • Norwegian: “West Lafayette”
  • Persian: “لافایت غربی، ایندیانا”
  • Persian: “لافایت غربی”
  • Polish: “West Lafayette”
  • Portuguese: “West Lafayette”
  • Russian: “Уэст-Лафайетт”
  • Russian: “Уэст-Лафейетт”
  • Serbian: “West Lafayette”
  • Serbian: “Вест Лафајет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West Lafayette”
  • Slovak: “West Lafayette”
  • Slovenian: “West Lafayette”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باتی لافایت، ایندیانا”
  • Spanish: “West Lafayette (Indiana)”
  • Spanish: “West Lafayette”
  • Swedish: “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Swedish: “West Lafayette”
  • Talysh: “Vest Lafajett”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு லாஃபயாட்டே, இந்தியானா”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு லாஃபயாட்டே”
  • Tatar: “Вест-Лафаетт”
  • Tatar: “Вест-Лафайетт”
  • Turkish: “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Turkish: “West Lafayette”
  • Ukrainian: “Вест-Лафаєтт”
  • Ukrainian: “Вест-Лафайетт”
  • Urdu: “مغربی لافائت، انڈیانا”
  • Urdu: “مغربی لافائت”
  • Volapük: “West Lafayette”
  • Waray (Philippines): “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “West Lafayette”
  • Welsh: “West Lafayette, Indiana”
  • Welsh: “West Lafayette”

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