Wells
Wells is the smallest city in England, with a population of around 10,000. It is in Somerset in the south-west of the country.
- City with about 11,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 140 feet (40 metres)
- …is also known as “Wells, Somerset”
- Description: cathedral city in Somerset, England, UK
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wells Cathedral and Bishop’s Palace.
Bishop’s Palace
The Bishop's Palace is the residence of the bishop of Bath and Wells in Wells, Somerset, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dinder and Horrington.
Wookey Hole
Wookey Hole is a village in Somerset, England.
Wells
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Latitude
51.2095° or 51° 12′ 34″ north
Longitude
-2.6451° or 2° 38′ 42″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB WLS
Open location code
9C3V6953+QX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Wells” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مدينة ولز”
- Arabic: “ولز، سومرست”
- Arabic: “ولز”
- Armenian: “Ուելս”
- Asturian: “Wells”
- Basque: “Wells”
- Bengali: “ওয়েলস”
- Catalan: “Wells”
- Cebuano: “Wells”
- Chinese: “韋爾斯”
- Chinese: “韦尔斯”
- Czech: “Wells”
- Danish: “Wells”
- Dimli (individual language): “Wells”
- Dutch: “Wells”
- Esperanto: “Wells”
- Finnish: “Wells”
- French: “Wells”
- German: “Wells”
- Greek: “Ουέλς”
- Gujarati: “વેલ્સ”
- Hebrew: “וולס”
- Hindi: “वैल्स”
- Hungarian: “Wells”
- Icelandic: “Wells”
- Indonesian: “Wells, Sommerset”
- Indonesian: “Wells”
- Irish: “Wells”
- Italian: “Wells”
- Japanese: “ウェルズ”
- Kannada: “ವೆಲ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “웰스”
- Kurdish: “Wells”
- Ladin: “Wells (Somerset)”
- Ladin: “Wells”
- Latin: “Wellae”
- Latin: “Wells”
- Latvian: “Vellsa”
- Latvian: “Velsa”
- Lithuanian: “Velsas”
- Lombard: “Wells”
- Malay: “Wells”
- Marathi: “वेल्स”
- Mazanderani: “ولز، انگلستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wells (Somerset)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wells”
- Mongolian: “Уэлс”
- Northern Frisian: “Wells, Somerset”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wells”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wells”
- Norwegian: “Wells”
- Persian: “ولز، انگلستان”
- Persian: “ولز”
- Polish: “Wells”
- Portuguese: “Wells”
- Romanian: “Wells”
- Russian: “Уэллс”
- Russian: “Уэлс”
- Scots: “Wells, Somerset”
- Scots: “Wells”
- Serbian: “Велс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wells”
- Silesian: “Wells (Somerset)”
- Silesian: “Wells”
- Sinhala: “වෙල්ස්”
- Slovak: “Wells”
- Slovenian: “Wells, Somerset”
- Spanish: “Wells”
- Swedish: “Wells, Somerset”
- Swedish: “Wells”
- Tagalog: “Wells”
- Tamil: “வெல்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “వెల్స్”
- Thai: “เวลส์”
- Turkish: “Wells”
- Ukrainian: “Велз”
- Ukrainian: “Веллс”
- Ukrainian: “Велльс”
- Ukrainian: “Уеллс”
- Ukrainian: “Уелльс”
- Ukrainian: “Уелс”
- Urdu: “ویلز، سومرسیٹ”
- Urdu: “ویلز”
- Uzbek: “Uels, Angliya”
- Vietnamese: “Wells”
- Volapük: “Wells”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wells”
- Welsh: “Wells”
- Western Frisian: “Wells”
- Western Panjabi: “ولز”
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