Temple

Temple is a city in the region of that started as a railroad town back in 1882.
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  • Type: City with 82,100 residents
  • Description: city in Bell County, Texas, United States
  • Also known as: “Temple, Texas” and “Temple, TX”
  • Postal codes: 76501-76504 and 76508

Places of Interest

Highlights include Temple High School and Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple.

School
is a public high school located in Temple, Texas. As of the 2024–2026 biennial realignment, it is classified as a 6A school by the University Interscholastic League.

Hospital
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple is a 636-bed multi-specialty teaching hospital located in Temple, Texas. The facility was founded in 1897, when Dr.

Temple

Latitude
31.0984° or 31° 5′ 54″ north
Longitude
-97.343° or 97° 20′ 35″ west
Population
82,100
Elevation
719 feet (219 metres)
IATA airport code
TPL
United Nations Location Code
US TPL
Open location code
86343MX4+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151846835
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4735966
Wiki­data ID
Q427075
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Temple” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تمبل”
  • Basque: “Temple”
  • Belarusian: “Тэмпл”
  • Catalan: “Temple”
  • Cebuano: “Temple”
  • Chechen: “Темпл”
  • Chinese: “Temple”
  • Chinese: “坦普尔”
  • Chinese: “坦普爾 (德克薩斯州)”
  • Chinese: “坦普爾”
  • Croatian: “Temple”
  • Czech: “Temple”
  • Dagbani: “Temple”
  • Danish: “Temple”
  • Dutch: “Temple”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تمبل”
  • French: “Temple”
  • Galician: “Temple”
  • German: “Temple”
  • Gilaki: “تمپل”
  • Haitian: “Temple, Texas”
  • Haitian: “Temple”
  • Hebrew: “טמפל”
  • Hungarian: “Temple”
  • Irish: “Temple, Texas”
  • Irish: “Temple”
  • Italian: “Temple”
  • Japanese: “テンプル”
  • Korean: “템플”
  • Ladin: “Temple”
  • Lithuanian: “Templas”
  • Malagasy: “Temple, Texas”
  • Malagasy: “Temple”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Temple”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Temple”
  • Norwegian: “Temple”
  • Persian: “تمپل، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “تمپل”
  • Polish: “Temple”
  • Portuguese: “Temple”
  • Romanian: “Temple”
  • Russian: “Темпл”
  • Serbian: “Темпл”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Temple, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Temple”
  • Silesian: “Temple”
  • Slovak: “Temple”
  • Slovenian: “Temple”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تمپل، تکزاس”
  • Spanish: “Temple (Texas)”
  • Spanish: “Temple”
  • Swedish: “Temple, Texas”
  • Swedish: “Temple”
  • Tatar: “Темпл”
  • Turkish: “Temple, Teksas”
  • Turkish: “Temple”
  • Ukrainian: “Темпл”
  • Urdu: “ٹیمپل، ٹیکساس”
  • Urdu: “ٹیمپل”
  • Uzbek: “Temple”
  • Vietnamese: “Temple, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Temple”
  • Volapük: “Temple”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Temple, Texas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Temple”
  • Welsh: “Temple, Texas”
  • Welsh: “Temple”

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