Waco

Waco is a city in the region of north central . 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.
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  • Type: City with 138,000 residents
  • Description: city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States
  • Also known as: “Waco, Texas” and “Waco, TX”
  • Postal codes: 76701-76708, 76710, 76711, 76714-76716, and 76797-76799

Places of Interest

Highlights include Baylor University and Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum.

University
is a private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas, United States. It was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas.

Museum
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The in Waco, Texas, is the state-designated official historical center of the Texas Rangers law enforcement agency.

Stadium
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is an American football stadium in Waco, Texas owned and operated by . Originally named Baylor Stadium, the facility's name was changed to its current name in December 2013 to honor Baylor alumnus and business magnate Drayton McLane, Jr., who provided the lead gift in the fundraising campaign for the stadium construction.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beverly Hills.

Village
is an enclave city in , , United States. The population was 1,878 at the 2020 census. The city is surrounded by Waco and is part of the Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Waco

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
United Nations Location Code
US ACT
Open location code
8634HV38+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151563130
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
4739526
Wiki­data ID
Q128244
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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, टेक्सस”
  • 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: “Уоко”
  • 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 (Texas)”
  • 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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