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 (Massachusetts)”, “Waltham, MA”, “Waltham, Massachusetts”, and “والثام (ماساتشوستس)”
- Postal codes: 02451-02454
Places of Interest
Highlights: Brandeis University and Charles River Museum of Industry.
Brandeis University
University
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.
Bemis
Neighborhood
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
UN/LOCODE
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”
- Armenian: “Ուոլթեմ”
- Basque: “Waltham”
- Belarusian: “Уолтэм”
- Catalan: “Waltham”
- Cebuano: “Waltham”
- Chechen: “Волтем”
- 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”
- 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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