West Virginia
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Kanawha County

Charleston

Charleston, established in 1794, is the state capital of . With a population of about 49,000 in 2020, Charleston is the largest city in West Virginia.
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  • Type: City with 50,800 residents
  • Description: capital city of West Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Charles Town”, “Charleston-on-the-Kanawha”, “Charleston, West Virginia”, “Charleston, WV”, “Charlestown”, “Clendenin’s Settlement”, “Clendenins Fort”, “Clendenins Settlement”, “Fort Clendennin”, “Fort Lee”, “Kanawha”, “Kanawha Court House”, “Mouth of Elk”, and “The Town at the Mouth of Elk”
  • Postal codes: 25301, 25302, 25304-25306, 25311-25315, 25317, 25320-25339, 25350, 25356-25358, 25360-25362, 25364, 25365, 25375, 25387, 25389, 25392, and 25396

Places of Interest

Highlights include Charleston station and Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.

Railway station
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is an active intercity railroad station in Charleston, , . Located on MacCorkle Avenue Southeast, the station services trains of Amtrak's Cardinal between New York Penn Station and .

Church
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The is a cathedral church and a minor basilica located in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Along with the Cathedral of St.

Government office
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is a public auditorium in Charleston, West Virginia, as part of the . It was constructed in 1939 and is a large monolithic concrete and steel structure, situated in the southwestern section of Charleston's central business district.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hillsdale and East Side.

Hamlet
is a large community/residential area in , , United States and is part of the Charleston area, but stretches past city limits.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States.

Charleston

Latitude
38.3506° or 38° 21′ 2″ north
Longitude
-81.6333° or 81° 37′ 60″ west
Population
50,800
Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)
IATA airport code
CRW
United Nations Location Code
US CRW
Open location code
86CW9928+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154283978
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4801859
Wiki­data ID
Q44564
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Charleston” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Charleston, Wes-Virginië”
  • Afrikaans: “Charleston”
  • Albanian: “Charleston”
  • Arabic: “تشارلستون، فرجينيا الغربية”
  • Arabic: “تشارلستون، فيرجينيا الغربيه”
  • Arabic: “تشارلستون، وست فرجينيا”
  • Arabic: “تشارلستون، وست ڤرجينيا”
  • Arabic: “تشارلستون”
  • Arabic: “تشارليستون، فرجينيا الغربية”
  • Aragonese: “Charleston”
  • Armenian: “Չարլսթոն”
  • Asturian: “Charleston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çarlston”
  • Basque: “Charleston”
  • Belarusian: “Чарлстан (Заходняя Віргінія)”
  • Belarusian: “Чарлстан”
  • Belarusian: “Чарльстан”
  • Bengali: “চার্লসটন, ওয়েস্ট ভার্জিনিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Bosnian: “Charleston”
  • Breton: “Charleston”
  • Bulgarian: “Чарлстън”
  • Catalan: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Catalan: “Charleston”
  • Cebuano: “Charleston”
  • Central Kurdish: “چارڵیستن”
  • Chechen: “Чарлстон (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
  • Chechen: “Чарлстон”
  • Chinese: “Charleston”
  • Chinese: “查尔斯顿”
  • Chinese: “查爾斯頓”
  • Chinese: “查理斯頓”
  • Cornish: “Charleston, Virjynni West”
  • Cornish: “Charleston, Vyrjynia West”
  • Cornish: “Charleston”
  • Czech: “Charleston”
  • Danish: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Danish: “Charleston”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Charleston”
  • Dutch: “Charleston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشارلستون”
  • Esperanto: “Charleston, Okcidenta Virginio”
  • Esperanto: “Charleston”
  • Estonian: “Charleston”
  • Faroese: “Charleston”
  • Finnish: “Charleston”
  • French: “Charleston”
  • Galician: “Charleston, Virxinia Occidental”
  • Galician: “Charleston”
  • Georgian: “ჩარლსტონი”
  • German: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • German: “Charleston, WV”
  • German: “Charleston”
  • Gilaki: “چارلستن”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌰𐍂𐌻𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌽, 𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌹𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌰𐍂𐌻𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌽”
  • Greek: “Τσάρλεστον”
  • Greek: “Τσάρλστον”
  • Gujarati: “ચાર્લસ્ટન”
  • Gujarati: “ચાર્લ્સ્ટન”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ארלסטון”
  • Hebrew: “צארלסטון”
  • Hindi: “चार्ल्सटन”
  • Hungarian: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Hungarian: “Charleston”
  • Icelandic: “Charleston”
  • Ido: “Charleston, Westal Virginia”
  • Ido: “Charleston”
  • Iloko: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Iloko: “Charleston”
  • Indonesian: “Charleston, Virginia Barat”
  • Indonesian: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Indonesian: “Charleston”
  • Interlingua: “Charleston”
  • Interlingue: “Charleston”
  • Irish: “Charleston, Virginia Thiar”
  • Irish: “Charleston”
  • Italian: “Charleston”
  • Japanese: “チャールストン”
  • Kannada: “ಚಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Чарлстон”
  • Komering: “Charleston”
  • Korean: “찰스턴”
  • Kurdish: “Charleston”
  • Ladin: “Charleston”
  • Latin: “Carolopolis”
  • Latvian: “Čārlstona”
  • Ligurian: “Charleston”
  • Lithuanian: “Čarlstonas”
  • Lombard: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Lombard: “Charleston”
  • Macedonian: “Чарлстон”
  • Malagasy: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Charleston”
  • Malay: “Charleston, Virginia Barat”
  • Malay: “Charleston”
  • Malayalam: “ചാൾസ്റ്റൺ, പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ വിർജീനിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ചാൾസ്റ്റൺ”
  • Marathi: “चार्लस्टन, वेस्ट व्हर्जिनिया”
  • Marathi: “चार्ल्स्टन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Charleston”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩარლსტონი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “شارلستون”
  • Navajo: “Dzeeh Bitooh”
  • Newari: “चार्ल्सटन”
  • Newari: “चार्ल्सतन, वेस्त भर्जिनिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Charleston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Charleston i Vest-Virginia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Charleston”
  • Norwegian: “Charleston”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Charleston”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ċeorlestūn on Westfǣmlande”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ċeorlestūn”
  • Ossetian: “Чарлстон”
  • Ossetian: “Чарльстон”
  • Pali: “चार्ल्सटन”
  • Papiamento: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Papiamento: “Charleston”
  • Persian: “چارلستون”
  • Piemontese: “Charleston”
  • Polish: “Charleston”
  • Portuguese: “Charleston, Virgínia Ocidental”
  • Portuguese: “Charleston”
  • Quechua: “Charleston”
  • Romanian: “Charleston, Virginia de Vest”
  • Romanian: “Charleston, west virginia”
  • Romanian: “Charleston”
  • Russian: “Чарлстон, Западная Вирджиния”
  • Russian: “Чарлстон”
  • Russian: “Чарльстон”
  • Samogitian: “Čarlstons”
  • Sanskrit: “चार्ल्सटन्”
  • Sardinian: “Charleston”
  • Scots: “Charleston, Wast Virginie”
  • Scots: “Charleston”
  • Serbian: “Чарлстон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Charleston”
  • Sicilian: “Charleston”
  • Silesian: “Charleston”
  • Sinhala: “චර්ල්ස්ටන්”
  • Sinhala: “චාර්ල්ස්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Charleston”
  • Slovenian: “Charleston”
  • Spanish: “Charleston (Virginia Occidental)”
  • Spanish: “Charleston”
  • Swahili: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Swahili: “Charleston”
  • Swedish: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Charleston”
  • Tagalog: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Tagalog: “Charleston”
  • Talysh: “Carlston”
  • Tamil: “சார்ல்ஸ்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Чарлстон (Көнбатыш Вирджиния)”
  • Tatar: “Чарлстон”
  • Telugu: “చార్లెస్టన్”
  • Thai: “ชารล์สตัน”
  • Thai: “ชาร์ลสตัน”
  • Tumbuka: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Tumbuka: “Charleston”
  • Turkish: “Charleston, Batı Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Charleston”
  • Ukrainian: “Чарлстон”
  • Ukrainian: “Чарльстон”
  • Urdu: “چارلسٹن، مغربی ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “چارلسٹن”
  • Vietnamese: “Charleston, Tây Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Charleston”
  • Volapük: “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Charleston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Charleston, West Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Charleston”
  • Welsh: “Charleston, Gorllewin Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Charleston”
  • Western Frisian: “Charleston”
  • Western Mari: “Чарлстон”
  • Western Panjabi: “چارلسٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “查尔斯顿（西弗吉尼亚州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “查尔斯顿”
  • Yue Chinese: “查理斯頓”
  • “Čarlstons”
  • “Charleston”

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