Waco
Waco is a city in the Blackland Prairie region of north central Texas. Waco is best known in Texas for being the home of Baylor University, the largest Baptist university in the world, chartered during the Republic of Texas.
- Type: City with 138,000 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Waco (Texas)”, “Waco, Texas”, “Waco, TX”, “Уоко”, and “वाको, टेक्सस”
- Postal codes: 76701-76708, 76710, 76711, 76714-76716, and 76797-76799
Places of Interest
Highlights: Baylor University and Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum.
Baylor University
University
Baylor University is a private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beverly Hills.
Waco
- Categories: city in the United States, big city, county seat, and locality
- Location: McLennan, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.5545° or 31° 33′ 16″ north
Longitude
-97.1326° or 97° 7′ 57″ west
Population
138,000
Elevation
469 feet (143 metres)
IATA airport code
ACT
UN/LOCODE
US ACT
Open location code
8634HV38+RX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Waco” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واكو”
- Aragonese: “Waco”
- Armenian: “Ուեյկո”
- Asturian: “Waco”
- Azerbaijani: “Vako”
- Basque: “Waco”
- Belarusian: “Уэйка”
- Bengali: “উয়েকু”
- Bulgarian: “Уейко”
- Bulgarian: “Уейкоу”
- Catalan: “Waco”
- Cebuano: “Waco”
- Central Kurdish: “وەیکۆ”
- Chechen: “Вейко”
- Chinese: “韋科”
- Chinese: “韦科”
- Croatian: “Waco”
- Czech: “Waco”
- Dagbani: “Waco”
- Danish: “Waco”
- Dutch: “Waco”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واكو”
- Esperanto: “Waco”
- Finnish: “Waco”
- French: “Waco”
- German: “Waco”
- Gilaki: “ویکؤ”
- Greek: “Γουέικο”
- Gujarati: “વાકો”
- Haitian: “Waco, Texas”
- Haitian: “Waco”
- Hebrew: “וייקו”
- Hindi: “वाको”
- Hungarian: “Waco”
- Ido: “Waco, Texas”
- Ido: “Waco”
- Indonesian: “Waco”
- Irish: “Waco, Texas”
- Irish: “Waco”
- Italian: “Waco”
- Japanese: “ウェーコ”
- Kannada: “ವಾಕೊ”
- Korean: “웨이코”
- Ladin: “Waco”
- Latin: “Waco”
- Latvian: “Veiko”
- Lithuanian: “Veikas”
- Luxembourgish: “Waco”
- Malagasy: “Waco, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Waco”
- Malay: “Waco”
- Marathi: “वेको”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waco”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waco”
- Norwegian: “Waco”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hwǣcburh”
- Persian: “ویکو، تگزاس”
- Persian: “ویکو”
- Polish: “Waco”
- Portuguese: “Waco”
- Romanian: “Waco, Texas”
- Romanian: “Waco”
- Russian: “Вако”
- Russian: “Уэйко”
- Scots: “Waco”
- Serbian: “Вејко”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waco, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waco”
- Silesian: “Waco”
- Sinhala: “වැකෝ”
- Slovak: “Waco”
- Slovenian: “Waco”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویکو، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Waco”
- Swahili: “Waco, Texas”
- Swahili: “Waco”
- Swedish: “Waco, Texas”
- Swedish: “Waco”
- Tagalog: “Waco, Texas”
- Tagalog: “Waco”
- Tamil: “வாகோ”
- Tatar: “Вейко”
- Telugu: “వాకో”
- Thai: “เวโก”
- Turkish: “Waco, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Waco”
- Ukrainian: “Вако”
- Ukrainian: “Вейко”
- Urdu: “ویکو، ٹیکساس”
- Urdu: “ویکو”
- Uzbek: “Waco”
- Venetian: “Waco”
- Vietnamese: “Waco, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Waco”
- Volapük: “Waco”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waco, Texas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waco”
- Welsh: “Waco, Texas”
- Welsh: “Waco”
- Western Panjabi: “ویکو”
- “Waco”
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