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Waukesha

Waukesha is a city of 62,000 people in Southeast Wisconsin. It is about 20 miles west of downtown .
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  • Type: Town with 71,200 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Waukesha”, “Prairieville”, “Waukesha, WI”, and “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Postal codes: 53186-53189
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Waukesha County Airport and Waukesha Memorial Hospital.

Aerodrome
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Waukesha County Airport/Crites Field is a public use located two miles north of the central business district of Waukesha, a city in , , .

Hospital
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Church
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was a historic church built in 1891 at 413 Wisconsin Avenue in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waukesha and Goerkes Corner.

Village
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is a village in , United States. The population was 8,457 at the 2020 census. The City of is located adjacent to the village. is situated 4 miles south of Waukesha.

Village
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Goerke's Corners is a former unincorporated community in the , in , , United States. It is now the location of a major highway intersection, and the site of a park-and-ride lot. is situated 3½ miles northeast of Waukesha.

Waukesha

Latitude
43.0116° or 43° 0′ 42″ north
Longitude
-88.2316° or 88° 13′ 54″ west
Population
71,200
Elevation
814 feet (248 metres)
IATA airport code
UES
United Nations Location Code
US UES
Open location code
86MH2Q69+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153647198
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5278052
Wiki­data ID
Q94919
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Waukesha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وكيشا”
  • Basque: “Waukesha”
  • Belarusian: “Уокеша”
  • Bulgarian: “Уокиша”
  • Catalan: “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Catalan: “Waukesha”
  • Cebuano: “Waukesha”
  • Chechen: “Вокеша”
  • Chinese: “Waukesha”
  • Chinese: “沃基肖”
  • Chinese: “沃科夏”
  • Czech: “Waukesha”
  • Dagbani: “Waukesha”
  • Danish: “Waukesha”
  • Dutch: “Waukesha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وكيشا”
  • Esperanto: “Waukesha”
  • Finnish: “Waukesha”
  • French: “Waukesha”
  • Georgian: “უოკეშო”
  • German: “Waukesha”
  • Gilaki: “واکشا (ويسکانسين)”
  • Gilaki: “واکشا”
  • Haitian: “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Haitian: “Waukesha”
  • Hebrew: “ווקשה”
  • Hungarian: “Waukesha”
  • Indonesian: “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Indonesian: “Waukesha”
  • Irish: “Waukesha”
  • Italian: “Waukesha”
  • Japanese: “ウォーキショー”
  • Japanese: “ウォーケショー”
  • Japanese: “ウォキショー”
  • Korean: “워키쇼”
  • Ladin: “Waukesha”
  • Luxembourgish: “Waukesha”
  • Malayalam: “വൗകെഷാ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Waukesha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Waukesha”
  • Norwegian: “Waukesha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Waukesha”
  • Persian: “واکیشا، ویسکانسین”
  • Persian: “واکیشا”
  • Polish: “Waukesha”
  • Portuguese: “Waukesha”
  • Romanian: “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Romanian: “Waukesha”
  • Russian: “Уокешо”
  • Russian: “Уокиша”
  • Serbian: “Вокиша”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Waukesha”
  • Silesian: “Waukesha”
  • Slovak: “Waukesha”
  • Slovenian: “Waukesha”
  • South Azerbaijani: “واکیشا، ویسکانسین”
  • Spanish: “Waukesha (Wisconsin)”
  • Spanish: “Waukesha”
  • Swedish: “Waukesha”
  • Talysh: “Vokeša”
  • Tatar: “Вокеша”
  • Tatar: “Вокешо”
  • Thai: “วอกิชอ”
  • Turkish: “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Turkish: “Waukesha”
  • Ukrainian: “Вокеша”
  • Urdu: “واوکیشا، وسکونسن”
  • Urdu: “واوکیشا”
  • Uzbek: “Waukesha”
  • Vietnamese: “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Vietnamese: “Waukesha”
  • Volapük: “Waukesha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Waukesha”
  • Welsh: “Waukesha, Wisconsin”
  • Welsh: “Waukesha”

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