Massachusetts
Middlesex
City of Waltham

Waltham

Waltham is a city in the American state of . It is 10 miles west of central on the Charles River, and 3 miles from the city limits to the east.
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  • 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.

University
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is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the area. Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational university, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University.

Museum
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& Innovation is a of the American Industrial Revolution located on the Charles River Bike Path, near the intersection of the and Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Historic house
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The , 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.

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is a city in , United States, part of . The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East , Square, and the West End.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood located in the southwest corner of , , United States. It is bounded by Main Street to the north, the to the south, and the City of Waltham to the west.

Village
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is one of the thirteen villages within the city of in , , United States. Among the oldest of the thirteen Newton villages, the Village Center is a National Register Historic District.

Waltham

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
node 158844369
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4954380
Wiki­data ID
Q49190
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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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