Beckley

Beckley is a city of 17,256 in , and is the county seat of Raleigh County pop. 74,591. It sits on a high plateau above the New River Gorge at an elevation of 2,418 feet.
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  • Type: City with 16,800 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Beckley (Virginia Occidental)”, “Beckley (West Virginia)”, “Beckley (WV)”, “Beckley, Tây Virginia”, “Beckley, Vyrjynia West”, “Beckley, Vyrjynni West”, “Beckley, West Virginia”, “Beckley, WV”, “Beckleyville”, “Raleigh”, and “Raleigh Court House”
  • Postal codes: 25801 and 25802

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sprague and MacArthur.

Village
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Beckley

Latitude
37.7782° or 37° 46′ 41″ north
Longitude
-81.1882° or 81° 11′ 17″ west
Population
16,800
Elevation
2,421 feet (738 metres)
IATA airport code
BKW
UN/LOCODE
US BKW
Open location code
869WQRH6+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153910581
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4798308
Wiki­data ID
Q813745
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Beckley” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيكلي”
  • Basque: “Beckley”
  • Bulgarian: “Бекли”
  • Catalan: “Beckley”
  • Cebuano: “Beckley”
  • Chechen: “Бекли (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
  • Chechen: “Бекли”
  • Chinese: “贝克利”
  • Cornish: “Beckley, Virjynni West”
  • Czech: “Beckley”
  • Dagbani: “Beckley”
  • Danish: “Beckley”
  • Dutch: “Beckley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيكلى”
  • Esperanto: “Beckley”
  • French: “Beckley”
  • German: “Beckley”
  • Gilaki: “بکلی (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “بکلی”
  • Hebrew: “בקלי”
  • Hungarian: “Beckley”
  • Interlingua: “Beckley”
  • Irish: “Beckley”
  • Italian: “Beckley”
  • Japanese: “ベックリー”
  • Korean: “베클리”
  • Ladin: “Beckley”
  • Malagasy: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Beckley”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Beckley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beckley”
  • Norwegian: “Beckley”
  • Persian: “بکلی، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “بکلی”
  • Polish: “Beckley”
  • Portuguese: “Beckley”
  • Russian: “Бекли”
  • Serbian: “Бекли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beckley”
  • Slovak: “Beckley”
  • Slovenian: “Beckley”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بکلئی، باتی ویرجینیا”
  • Spanish: “Beckley”
  • Swedish: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Beckley”
  • Tagalog: “Beckley”
  • Talysh: “Bekli”
  • Tatar: “Бекли”
  • Turkish: “Beckley, Batı Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Beckley”
  • Ukrainian: “Беклі”
  • Urdu: “بیلکی، مغربی ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “بیلکی”
  • Vietnamese: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Beckley”
  • Volapük: “Beckley”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beckley”
  • Welsh: “Beckley, Gorllewin Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Beckley”

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Places to explore: East Beckley and Johnstown.

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