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.
- 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 (Virginia Occidental)”, “Morgantown, Tây Virginia”, “Morgantown, West Virginia”, “Morgantown, WV”, “مورغانتاون، فرجينيا الغربية”, and “مورغانتاون، فيرجينيا الغربيه”
- Postal codes: 26501, 26502, and 26504-26508
Places of Interest
Highlights: Metropolitan Theatre and South Park Historic District.
Metropolitan Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westover and Sabraton.
Westover
Village
Sabraton
Neighborhood
Morgantown is a city and the county seat of Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
Morgantown
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Monongalia County, Mountains and Lakes Country, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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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
UN/LOCODE
US MGW
Open location code
87F2J2HV+VJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Morgantown” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Morgantown, West Virginia”
- Albanian: “Morgantown”
- Arabic: “مورغانتاون”
- Basque: “Morgantown”
- Breton: “Morgantown”
- Catalan: “Morgantown”
- Cebuano: “Morgantown”
- Chechen: “Моргантаун (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
- Chechen: “Моргантаун”
- 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”
- 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, West Virginia”
- Vietnamese: “Morgantown”
- Volapük: “Morgantown”
- Waray (Philippines): “Morgantown, West Virginia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Morgantown”
- Welsh: “Morgantown, Gorllewin Virginia”
- Welsh: “Morgantown”
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