West Virginia
Mountains & Lakes Country
Monongalia County

Morgantown

Morgantown is the third largest city in West Virginia, and is the county seat of Monongalia County. It is home to West Virginia University, the state's flagship public university and university with the largest student body in the state.
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  • Type: City with 30,300 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Monongahela Court House”, “Morgan Town”, “Morgans Town”, “Morgans-Town”, “Morganstown”, “Morgantown, West Virginia”, and “Morgantown, WV”
  • Postal codes: 26501, 26502, and 26504-26508

Places of Interest

Highlights include Metropolitan Theatre and South Park Historic District.

Theater building
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
is a historic theater building located at Morgantown, . It opened July 24, 1924, two-and-a-half years after construction began, and consists of a single floor auditorium with balcony.

Park
Photo: Stryker33, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a national historic district located at Morgantown, . The district includes 501 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in a primarily residential area south of downtown Morgantown.

Movie theater
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The Warner Theater is a historic Art Deco movie theater at 147 High Street in downtown Morgantown, West Virginia, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westover and Sabraton.

Village
Photo: Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in , United States, along the Monongahela River. The population was 3,995 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Morgantown metropolitan area.

Neighborhood
Morgantown is a city in , United States, and its county seat. It is situated along the Monongahela River in North Central West Virginia and is the home of West Virginia University.

Neighborhood
is an unincorporated community in , , United States, adjacent to the city of Morgantown.

Morgantown

Latitude
39.6297° or 39° 37′ 47″ north
Longitude
-79.9559° or 79° 57′ 21″ west
Population
30,300
Elevation
889 feet (271 metres)
IATA airport code
MGW
United Nations Location Code
US MGW
Open location code
87F2J2HV+VJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158285205
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4815352
Wiki­data ID
Q653636
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Morgantown” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Morgantown, West Virginia”
  • Albanian: “Morgantown”
  • Arabic: “مورغانتاون، فرجينيا الغربية”
  • Arabic: “مورغانتاون، فيرجينيا الغربيه”
  • Arabic: “مورغانتاون”
  • Basque: “Morgantown”
  • Breton: “Morgantown”
  • Catalan: “Morgantown”
  • Cebuano: “Morgantown”
  • Chechen: “Моргантаун (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
  • Chechen: “Моргантаун”
  • Chinese: “Morgantown”
  • Chinese: “摩根敦”
  • Cornish: “Morgantown, Virjynni West”
  • Croatian: “Morgantown, Zapadna Virginia”
  • Croatian: “Morgantown”
  • Czech: “Morgantown”
  • Dagbani: “Morgantown”
  • Danish: “Morgantown”
  • Dutch: “Morgantown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مورجانتاون”
  • Estonian: “Morgantown”
  • Finnish: “Morgantown”
  • French: “Morgantown”
  • German: “Morgantown (West Virginia)”
  • German: “Morgantown”
  • Gilaki: “مؤرگان‌تاؤن”
  • Hebrew: “מורגנטאון”
  • Hungarian: “Morgantown”
  • Indonesian: “Morgantown, Virginia Barat”
  • Indonesian: “Morgantown”
  • Irish: “Morgantown”
  • Italian: “Morgantown”
  • Japanese: “モーガンタウン”
  • Korean: “모건타운”
  • Ladin: “Morgantown”
  • Latin: “Morganopolis”
  • Lithuanian: “Morgantaunas”
  • Macedonian: “Моргантаун”
  • Malagasy: “Morgantown, West Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Morgantown”
  • Maltese: “Morgantown”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Morgantown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Morgantown”
  • Norwegian: “Morgantown”
  • Persian: “مرگنتاون، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “مرگنتاون”
  • Persian: “مورگانتاون”
  • Polish: “Morgantown”
  • Portuguese: “Morgantown”
  • Russian: “Моргантаун”
  • Serbian: “Моргантаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Morgantown, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Morgantown”
  • Silesian: “Morgantown”
  • Slovak: “Morgantown”
  • Slovenian: “Morgantown”
  • Spanish: “Morgantown (Virginia Occidental)”
  • Spanish: “Morgantown”
  • Swedish: “Morgantown, West Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Morgantown”
  • Talysh: “Morgantaun”
  • Talysh: “Morqantaun”
  • Tatar: “Моргантаун (Көнбатыш Вирджиния)”
  • Tatar: “Моргантаун”
  • Turkish: “Morgantown, Batı Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Morgantown”
  • Ukrainian: “Моргантаун”
  • Urdu: “مورگن ٹاؤن، مغربی ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “مورگن ٹاؤن”
  • Vietnamese: “Morgantown, Tây Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Morgantown, West Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Morgantown”
  • Volapük: “Morgantown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Morgantown, West Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Morgantown”
  • Welsh: “Morgantown, Gorllewin Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Morgantown”

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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 “Morgantown”. Photo: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0.