North Central Wisconsin
Marathon
City of Wausau

Wausau

Wausau is a city in . 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.
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  • 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 Wausau station.

Museum
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The is located in Wausau, Wisconsin. It is best known for its annual "Birds in Art" exhibition, which exhibits contemporary artistic representations of birds.

Railway 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 .

Library
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The is a consolidated county library with nine locations in , U.S.A. Its headquarters are in Wausau. The library has its origins in the Wausau Free Public Library, which was founded in April 1907.

Wausau

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
node 153616558
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5278120
Wiki­data ID
Q998675
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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”
  • 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: “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”

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