Waltham
Waltham is a city in the American state of Massachusetts. It is 10 miles west of central Boston on the Charles River, and 3 miles from the city limits to the east.- Type: City with 59,400 residents
- Description: city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Waltham, MA” and “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Postal codes: 02451-02454
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brandeis University and Charles River Museum of Industry.
Brandeis University
University
Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational university, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University.
Charles River Museum of Industry
Museum
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation is a museum of the American Industrial Revolution located on the Charles River Bike Path, near the intersection of the Charles River and Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Lyman Estate
Historic house
The Lyman Estate, also known as The Vale, is a historic country house located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by the nonprofit Historic New England organization.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Watertown and Bemis.
Watertown
Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square, and the West End.Bemis
Neighborhood
Bemis is a neighborhood located in the southwest corner of Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. It is bounded by Main Street to the north, the Charles River to the south, and the City of Waltham to the west.
West Newton
Village
West Newton is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Among the oldest of the thirteen Newton villages, the West Newton Village Center is a National Register Historic District.
Waltham
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.3762° or 42° 22′ 35″ north
Longitude
-71.2356° or 71° 14′ 8″ west
Population
59,400
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
IATA airport code
WLM
United Nations Location Code
US WLM
Open location code
87JC9QG7+FQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Waltham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “والثام (ماساتشوستس)”
- Arabic: “والثام”
- Armenian: “Ուոլթեմ”
- Basque: “Waltham”
- Belarusian: “Уолтэм”
- Catalan: “Waltham”
- Cebuano: “Waltham”
- Chechen: “Волтем”
- Chinese: “Waltham”
- Chinese: “沃尔瑟姆”
- Chinese: “窩咸”
- Czech: “Waltham”
- Danish: “Waltham”
- Dutch: “Waltham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “والثام”
- Esperanto: “Waltham”
- French: “Waltham”
- German: “Waltham”
- Gilaki: “والتهام (ماساچۊست)”
- Gilaki: “والتهام”
- Haitian: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Waltham”
- Hebrew: “וולת’ם”
- Hungarian: “Waltham”
- Indonesian: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Indonesian: “Waltham”
- Irish: “Waltham”
- Italian: “Waltham”
- Japanese: “ウォルサム”
- Korean: “월섬”
- Ladin: “Waltham”
- Malagasy: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Malagasy: “Waltham”
- Mazanderani: “والتهام (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “والتهام”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Waltham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waltham”
- Norwegian: “Waltham”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Waltham”
- Persian: “والتهام، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “والتهام”
- Polish: “Waltham”
- Portuguese: “Waltham”
- Russian: “Уолтем”
- Scots: “Waltham”
- Serbian: “Волтам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waltham”
- Slovak: “Waltham”
- Slovenian: “Waltham”
- South Azerbaijani: “والتهام، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Waltham (Massachusetts)”
- Spanish: “Waltham”
- Swahili: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Waltham”
- Swedish: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Swedish: “Waltham”
- Tagalog: “Waltham”
- Tajik: “Волсом”
- Talysh: “Voltem”
- Tatar: “Волтем”
- Turkish: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Waltham”
- Ukrainian: “Волтгем”
- Ukrainian: “Волтем”
- Urdu: “والتھم، میساچوسٹس”
- Urdu: “والتھم”
- Uzbek: “Waltham”
- Vietnamese: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Vietnamese: “Waltham”
- Volapük: “Waltham”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waltham”
- Welsh: “Waltham, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Waltham”
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