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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of , United States. The city's population is about 600,000 with about 1.6 million in the metropolitan area. It is in the southeastern portion of the state on the western shore of Lake Michigan.
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  • Type: City with 577,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Milwaukee County, and largest city in State of Wisconsin, United States
  • Also known as: “Juneautown”, “Kilbourntown”, “Mahn-a-wau-kee Seepe”, “Mahn-a-wauk-ee See-pe”, “Mahn-a-waukee Seepe”, “Mahn-a-waukie”, “Mahn-ah-wauk Seepe”, “Mahnawauk”, “Man-a-wau-kee”, “Man-a-wauk-ee”, “Man-na-wah-kie”, “Mana’wa”, “Manawaki”, “Manawaukee”, “Manayaukee”, “Maunahwauke”, “Mee-lee-waug-ee”, “Meliki”, “Melleoki”, “Melwarik”, “Meneawkee”, “Meolaki”, “Mil-wah-kie”, “Milioke”, “Millewacki”, “Millicki”, “Milo-aki”, “Milouagui”, “Milouakik”, “Milowages”, “Milwacky”, “Milwahkie”, “Milwalka”, “Milwalky”, “Milwarck”, “Milwarik”, “Milwaucki”, “Milwaükee”, “Milwaukee City, Wisconsin”, “Milwaukee, WI”, “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”, “Milwaukie”, “Minewaki”, “Miniaki”, “Minnawack”, and “Winnipesaukee”
  • Postal codes: 53201-53228, 53233, 53234, 53237, 53259, 53263, 53267, 53268, 53274, 53278, 53288, 53290, 53293, and 53295
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Milwaukee Art Museum and UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena.

Art gallery
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The is an art museum in Milwaukee, . Its collection of over 34,000 works of art and gallery spaces totaling 150,000 sq. ft. make it the largest art museum in the state of Wisconsin and one of the largest art museums in the .

Stadium
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The is an indoor arena located in Milwaukee, . The arena, which seats as many as 12,700 people and offers 41,700 square feet of floor space, is part of a larger downtown campus, that includes the and Wisconsin Center.

Town hall
The is a skyscraper and town hall located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was finished in 1895, and was Milwaukee's tallest building until completion of the in 1973.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Menomonee Valley and Downtown Milwaukee.

Suburb
The or Menomonee River Valley is a U-shaped land formation along the southern bend of the Menomonee River in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Because of its easy access to and other waterways, the neighborhood has historically been home to the city's stockyards, rendering plants, shipping, and other heavy industry.

Suburb
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is the central business district of Milwaukee, . The economic and symbolic center of the city and the , it is Milwaukee's oldest district and home to many of region's cultural, financial educational and historical landmarks including , and the .

Quarter
is an industrialized peninsula in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It began as a marsh island between the and Kinnickinnic rivers, and now forms the city's inner harbor design.

Milwaukee

Latitude
43.0383° or 43° 2′ 18″ north
Longitude
-87.9146° or 87° 54′ 53″ west
Population
577,000
Elevation
617 feet (188 metres)
Inception
January 31st, 1846
IATA airport code
MKE
United Nations Location Code
US MKE
Open location code
86MJ23QP+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 873099231
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5263045
Wiki­data ID
Q37836
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Milwaukee” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Milwaukee”
  • Albanian: “Miluaki”
  • Albanian: “Milwaukee”
  • Amharic: “ምልዎኪ”
  • Arabic: “ميلواكي، وسكنسن”
  • Arabic: “ميلواكي”
  • Arabic: “ميلوكي، ويسكنسن”
  • Arabic: “ميلوكي”
  • Arabic: “ميلووكي ، ويسكونسن”
  • Arabic: “ميلووكي”
  • Aragonese: “Milwaukee”
  • Armenian: “Միլուոքի”
  • Asturian: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Asturian: “Milwaukee”
  • Atikamekw: “Milwaukee”
  • Azerbaijani: “Miluoki”
  • Balinese: “Milwaukee”
  • Bambara: “Milwaukee”
  • Bashkir: “Милуоки”
  • Basque: “Milwaukee”
  • Belarusian: “Мілуокі”
  • Belarusian: “Мілўокі”
  • Bengali: “মিলওয়াকি”
  • Bosnian: “Milwaukee”
  • Breton: “Milwaukee”
  • Bulgarian: “Милуоки”
  • Catalan: “Milwaukee”
  • Cebuano: “Milwaukee”
  • Central Kurdish: “میلوۆکی”
  • Chechen: “Милвоки”
  • Chinese: “Mì’ěrwòjī”
  • Chinese: “Milwaukee”
  • Chinese: “密尔沃基”
  • Chinese: “密尔沃基市”
  • Chinese: “密爾瓦基”
  • Chinese: “密爾華基”
  • Chinese: “米尔瓦基”
  • Chinese: “米華基”
  • Cornish: “Milwaukee”
  • Corsican: “Milwaukee”
  • Croatian: “Milwaukee”
  • Czech: “Milwaukee”
  • Dagbani: “Milwaukee”
  • Danish: “Milwaukee”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Milwaukee”
  • Dutch: “Milwaukee”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميلواكى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميلووكى”
  • Esperanto: “Milvaŭkeo”
  • Esperanto: “Milvokio”
  • Esperanto: “Milwaukee”
  • Estonian: “Milwaukee”
  • Finnish: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Finnish: “Milwaukee”
  • French: “Milwaukee”
  • Galician: “Milwaukee”
  • Gan Chinese: “密爾沃基”
  • Georgian: “მილუოკი”
  • German: “Deutsch-Athen”
  • German: “Mil Town”
  • German: “Milwaukee”
  • German: “The Mil”
  • Gilaki: “ميلواکي”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌹𐌻𐍅𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Μιλγουόκι”
  • Gujarati: “ઇટાકીરી”
  • Gujarati: “મિલવૌકી”
  • Haitian: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Haitian: “Milwaukee”
  • Hebrew: “מילווקי”
  • Hindi: “मिल्वाउकी”
  • Hindi: “मिल्वौकी, विस्कॉन्सिन”
  • Hindi: “मिल्वौकी”
  • Hungarian: “Milwaukee”
  • Icelandic: “Milwaukee”
  • Ido: “Milwaukee”
  • Iloko: “Milwaukee”
  • Indonesian: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Indonesian: “Milwaukee”
  • Interlingua: “Milwaukee”
  • Interlingue: “Milwaukee”
  • Irish: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Irish: “Milwaukee”
  • Italian: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Italian: “Milwaukee”
  • Japanese: “ミルウォーキー”
  • Japanese: “ミルウォーキー市”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಲ್ವಾಕೀ”
  • Kazakh: “Висконсин қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Милуоки”
  • Kikuyu: “Milwaukee”
  • Korean: “밀워키”
  • Kurdish: “Milwaukee”
  • Ladin: “Milwaukee”
  • Latin: “Milvauchia”
  • Latin: “Milwaukee”
  • Latvian: “Milvoki”
  • Latvian: “Milvokī”
  • Latvian: “Milwaukee”
  • Limburgan: “Milwaukee”
  • Lithuanian: “Milvokis”
  • Lithuanian: “Milwaukee”
  • Luxembourgish: “Milwaukee”
  • Macedonian: “Милвоки”
  • Malagasy: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Malagasy: “Milwaukee”
  • Malay: “Milwaukee”
  • Malayalam: “മിൽവൌക്കീ”
  • Maori: “Milwaukee”
  • Marathi: “मिलवॉकी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Milwaukee”
  • Mingrelian: “მილუოკი”
  • Mingrelian: “მილუოქი”
  • Mongolian: “Милуоки”
  • Navajo: “Tábąąhkin Haalʼáhí”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Milwaukee”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Milwaukee”
  • Norwegian: “Milwaukee”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Milwaukee”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mewōcibyrg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Meƿōcibyrg”
  • Ossetian: “Милуоки”
  • Pampanga: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Pampanga: “Milwaukee”
  • Papiamento: “Milwaukee”
  • Persian: “میلواکی، ویسکانسین”
  • Persian: “میلواکی”
  • Piemontese: “Milwaukee”
  • Polish: “Milwaukee”
  • Portuguese: “Milwaukee”
  • Quechua: “Milwaukee”
  • Romanian: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Romanian: “Milwaukee”
  • Russian: “Milwaukee”
  • Russian: “Милуоки”
  • Sardinian: “Milwaukee”
  • Scots: “Milwaukee”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Milwaukee”
  • Serbian: “Milwaukee”
  • Serbian: “Милвоки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Milvoki”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Milwaukee”
  • Silesian: “Milwaukee”
  • Sinhala: “මිල්වෝකි”
  • Slovak: “Milwaukee”
  • Slovenian: “Mil Town”
  • Slovenian: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Slovenian: “Milwaukee”
  • Slovenian: “The Mil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میلواکی”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Milwaukee”
  • Spanish: “Milwaukee (Wisconsin)”
  • Spanish: “Milwaukee”
  • Swahili: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Swahili: “Milwaukee”
  • Swedish: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Swedish: “Milwaukee”
  • Tagalog: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Tagalog: “Milwaukee”
  • Tajik: “Милуоки”
  • Tamil: “மில்வாகி”
  • Tamil: “மில்வாக்கி”
  • Tatar: “Милуоки”
  • Telugu: “మిల్వాకీ”
  • Thai: “Milwaukee”
  • Thai: “มิลวอกี”
  • Thai: “มิลวอคี”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Milwaukee”
  • Turkish: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Turkish: “Milwaukee”
  • Turkmen: “Miluoki”
  • Twi: “Milwaukee”
  • Ukrainian: “Мілвокі”
  • Ukrainian: “Мілуокі”
  • Urdu: “ملواکی”
  • Uzbek: “Miluoki”
  • Venetian: “Milwaukee”
  • Veps: “Miluoki”
  • Vietnamese: “Milwaukee”
  • Vlax Romani: “Milwaukee”
  • Volapük: “Milwaukee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Milwaukee”
  • Welsh: “Milwaukee”
  • Western Frisian: “Milwaukee”
  • Western Mari: “Милуоки”
  • Western Panjabi: “ملواکی”
  • Wu Chinese: “密尔沃基”
  • Yiddish: “מילוואקי”
  • Yoruba: “Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
  • Yoruba: “Milwaukee”
  • Yue Chinese: “密爾華基”
  • “Milwaukee”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Milwaukee”. Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY-SA 2.0.