Wausau
Wausau is a city in North Central Wisconsin. While the metropolitan area has a population of around 80,000, it has a big city feel and often leads one to believe they are in a larger city.
- Type: City with 40,000 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States
- Also known as: “Big Bull Falls”, “City of Wausau”, “Pah-je-tak-a-ke-ning-a-ning”, “Wassa”, “Wausau, WI”, and “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Postal codes: 54401-54403
Places of Interest
Highlights include Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and Athletic Park.
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Museum
Athletic Park
Stadium
Wausau station
Railway station
Wausau station is a former passenger train station of the Milwaukee Road at 720 Grant Street in Wausau, Wisconsin. Wausau was on the Milwaukee’s Wisconsin Valley division and connected with the main line to Chicago at New Lisbon, Wisconsin.
Wausau
- Categories: city in the United States, third-class city, county seat, and locality
- Location: City of Wausau, Marathon, North Central Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.9598° or 44° 57′ 35″ north
Longitude
-89.6273° or 89° 37′ 38″ west
Population
40,000
Elevation
1,204 feet (367 metres)
IATA airport code
AUW
United Nations Location Code
US AUW
Open location code
86PGX95F+W3
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 Waray—“Wausau” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واوسو (ويسكونسن)”
- Arabic: “واوسو”
- Basque: “Wausau”
- Bengali: “উসো”
- Catalan: “Wausau”
- Cebuano: “Wausau”
- Chechen: “Восау”
- Chinese: “Wausau”
- Chinese: “沃索”
- Czech: “Wausau”
- Danish: “Wausau”
- Dutch: “Wausau”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واسا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واوسو”
- Esperanto: “Wausau”
- Finnish: “Wausau”
- French: “Wausau”
- German: “Wausau (Wisconsin)”
- German: “Wausau”
- Gilaki: “واسا (ويسکانسين)”
- Gilaki: “واسا”
- Greek: “Γοσάου”
- Greek: “Γουασάου”
- Gujarati: “વૌસૌ”
- Haitian: “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Haitian: “Wausau”
- Hebrew: “ווסו”
- Hindi: “वौसाउ”
- Hungarian: “Wausau”
- Indonesian: “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Indonesian: “Wausau”
- Irish: “Wausau”
- Italian: “Wausau”
- Japanese: “ウォーソー”
- Kannada: “ವೌಸೌ”
- Korean: “워소”
- Ladin: “Wausau”
- Latvian: “Vausau”
- Lithuanian: “Vausau”
- Malay: “Wausau”
- Marathi: “वाऊसौ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wausau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wausau”
- Norwegian: “Wausau”
- Persian: “واسا، ویسکانسین”
- Persian: “واسا”
- Polish: “Wausau”
- Portuguese: “Wausau”
- Romanian: “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Romanian: “Wausau”
- Russian: “Ваусау”
- Russian: “Уосо”
- Scots: “Wausau”
- Serbian: “Восо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wausau”
- Sinhala: “වොසවු”
- Slovak: “Wausau”
- South Azerbaijani: “واسا، ویسکانسین”
- Spanish: “Wausau (Wisconsin)”
- Spanish: “Wausau”
- Swedish: “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Swedish: “Wausau”
- Tamil: “வௌசள”
- Tatar: “Восау”
- Telugu: “వాసవ్”
- Thai: “วอซอ”
- Turkish: “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Turkish: “Wausau”
- Ukrainian: “Ваусау”
- Ukrainian: “Восау”
- Urdu: “واسا، وسکونسن”
- Urdu: “واسا”
- Uzbek: “Wausau”
- Vietnamese: “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Vietnamese: “Wausau”
- Volapük: “Wausau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wausau, Wisconsin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wausau”
- “Wausau”
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