Lake Wales

Lake Wales is a small city in eastern , . The city is in the middle of a long, narrow region known as the Lake Wales Ridge. The Lake Wales Ridge was the first part of the Florida Peninsula to rise above sea level, beginning as a series of small sandy islands not unlike the Florida Keys today.
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  • Type: Town with 13,700 residents
  • Description: city in Polk County, Florida, United States
  • Also known as: “Lake Wales, FL”, “Lake Wales, Florida”, and “Lake-Wales”
  • Postal codes: 33853, 33859, and 33898

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lake Wales Medical Center and Twin Lakes.

Hospital
AdventHealth Lake Wales is a non-profit hospital campus in Lake Wales, Florida, United States owned by AdventHealth. The medical facility is a tertiary and primary stroke center that has multiple specialties.

Lake
The of Lake Wales, Florida, are two small natural freshwater lakes on the south side of the city. Sometimes they are simply called , but sometimes they are individually called Twin Lake West and Twin Lake East.

Aerodrome
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is a public-use located 2 miles west of the central business district of the city of Lake Wales in , , . The airport is publicly owned. is situated 2½ miles west of Lake Wales.

Lake Wales

Latitude
27.9014° or 27° 54′ 5″ north
Longitude
-81.5859° or 81° 35′ 9″ west
Population
13,700
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US LWA
Open location code
76VWWC27+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153953302
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4161400
Wiki­data ID
Q1647959
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Wales from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Wales” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ليك ويلز”
  • Armenian: “Լեյք Ուելս”
  • Basque: “Lake Wales”
  • Catalan: “Lake Wales”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Wales”
  • Chechen: “Лейк-Вейлс”
  • Chinese: “Lake Wales”
  • Chinese: “威尔士湖”
  • Chinese: “威爾士湖”
  • Chinese: “威爾斯湖”
  • Chinese: “莱克威尔士”
  • Croatian: “Lake Wales, Florida”
  • Croatian: “Lake Wales”
  • Dagbani: “Lake Wales”
  • Danish: “Lake Wales”
  • Dutch: “Lake Wales”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليك ويلز”
  • French: “Lake Wales”
  • German: “Lake Wales”
  • Gilaki: “لیک ویلز (فلؤريدا)”
  • Gilaki: “لیک ویلز”
  • Haitian: “Lake Wales, Florid”
  • Haitian: “Lake Wales”
  • Hebrew: “לייק ולס”
  • Hungarian: “Lake Wales”
  • Ido: “Lake Wales, Florida”
  • Ido: “Lake Wales”
  • Irish: “Lake Wales”
  • Italian: “Lake Wales”
  • Japanese: “レイクウェールズ”
  • Korean: “레이크 웨일스”
  • Korean: “레이크웨일스”
  • Ladin: “Lake Wales”
  • Malagasy: “Lake Wales, Florida”
  • Malagasy: “Lake Wales”
  • Mazanderani: “لیک ویلز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lake Wales”
  • Newari: “लेक वेल्स (फ्लोरिडा)”
  • Newari: “लेक वेल्स, फ्लोरिडा”
  • Newari: “लेक वेल्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Wales”
  • Norwegian: “Lake Wales”
  • Persian: “لیک ویلز، فلوریدا”
  • Persian: “لیک ویلز”
  • Polish: “Lake Wales”
  • Portuguese: “Lake Wales”
  • Russian: “Лейк-Уэйлс”
  • Serbian: “Лејк Вејлс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Wales, Florida”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Wales”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیک ویلز، فلوریدا”
  • Spanish: “Lake Wales (Florida)”
  • Spanish: “Lake Wales”
  • Swedish: “Lake Wales”
  • Tatar: “Лейк-Вейлс”
  • Turkish: “Lake Wales, Florida”
  • Turkish: “Lake Wales”
  • Ukrainian: “Лейк-Вейлс”
  • Urdu: “لیک ویلز، فلورایڈا”
  • Uzbek: “Lake Wales”
  • Uzbek: “Лаке Wалес”
  • Volapük: “Lake Wales”
  • Welsh: “Lake Wales, Florida”
  • Welsh: “Lake Wales”

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