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Wake Forest Township

Wake Forest

Wake Forest is a town in Franklin and Wake Counties of , immediately to the north of the state capital . With a population just over 41,000 that primarily commutes to work in the , the town is the 9th fastest growing municipality in the state of North Carolina.
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  • Type: City with 47,600 residents
  • Description: town located in the U.S. state of North Carolina
  • Also known as: “Town of Wake Forest College”, “Wake Forest, NC”, and “Wake Forest, North Carolina”
  • Postal codes: 27587 and 27588

Wake Forest

Latitude
35.9803° or 35° 58′ 49″ north
Longitude
-78.5104° or 78° 30′ 37″ west
Population
47,600
Elevation
390 feet (119 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US WKR
Open location code
8773XFJQ+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157568173
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4497290
Wiki­data ID
Q2022236
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Wake Forest” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويك فورست”
  • Basque: “Wake Forest”
  • Catalan: “Wake Forest”
  • Cebuano: “Wake Forest”
  • Chechen: “Вейк-Форест”
  • Chinese: “Wake Forest”
  • Chinese: “威克森林”
  • Chinese: “維克森林”
  • Dutch: “Wake Forest”
  • French: “Wake Forest”
  • German: “Wake Forest”
  • Gilaki: “ویک فؤرست (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “ویک فؤرست”
  • Haitian: “Wake Forest, Kawolin dinò”
  • Italian: “Wake Forest”
  • Japanese: “ウェイクフォレスト”
  • Ladin: “Wake Forest”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wake Forest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wake Forest”
  • Norwegian: “Wake Forest”
  • Persian: “ویک فارست”
  • Persian: “ویک فریست، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “ویک فریست”
  • Polish: “Wake Forest”
  • Portuguese: “Wake Forest”
  • Russian: “Уэйк-Форест (Северная Каролина)”
  • Russian: “Уэйк-Форест”
  • Serbian: “Вејк Форест”
  • Serbian: “Вејк Форист”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wake Forest, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wake Forest”
  • Spanish: “Wake Forest, Carolina del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Wake Forest”
  • Tatar: “Вейк-Форест”
  • Ukrainian: “Вейк-Форест”
  • Urdu: “ویک فارسٹ، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Wake Forest, North Carolina”
  • Uzbek: “Wake Forest”
  • Uzbek: “Wаке Форест”
  • Volapük: “Wake Forest, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Wake Forest”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wake Forest, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wake Forest”
  • Welsh: “Wake Forest, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Wake Forest”

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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 “Wake Forest”. Photo: Scott Thompson, CC BY 3.0.