Wels
Wels is a city in Upper Austria. Its old town is well worth seeing. It has about 59,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Eweht, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wels Hauptbahnhof and Burg Wels.
Wels Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Photo: Linzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wels Hauptbahnhof, occasionally Wels Central Station or Wels central station is a railway station at Wels, which is the second largest city in the federal state of Upper Austria, in the north of Austria.
Wels
- Type: Town with 59,900 residents
- Description: city in Upper Austria
- Categories: municipality of Austria, place with town rights and privileges, statutory city of Austria, district of Austria, city, and locality
- Location: Upper Austria, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.1565° or 48° 9′ 24″ northLongitude
14.0244° or 14° 1′ 28″ eastPopulation
59,900Elevation
317 metres (1,040 feet)United Nations Location Code
AT WSLOpen location code
8FWP524F+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 26748998OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Wels from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Wels” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيلز”
- Aragonese: “Wels”
- Armenian: “Վելս”
- Asturian: “Wels”
- Balinese: “Wels”
- Basque: “Wels”
- Bavarian: “Wöis”
- Bavarian: “Wös”
- Belarusian: “Вельс”
- Belarusian: “Вэльс”
- Bosnian: “Wels”
- Breton: “Wels”
- Bulgarian: “Велс”
- Catalan: “Wels”
- Cebuano: “Wels (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Wels”
- Chechen: “Вельс”
- Chinese: “Wels”
- Chinese: “韋爾斯”
- Chinese: “韦尔斯”
- Croatian: “Wels”
- Czech: “Wels”
- Danish: “Wels”
- Dutch: “Wels”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيلز”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Wels”
- Esperanto: “Wels”
- Estonian: “Wels”
- Finnish: “Wels”
- French: “Wels”
- Georgian: “ველსი”
- German: “Wels”
- Greek: “Βελς”
- Hausa: “Wels”
- Hebrew: “ולס”
- Hungarian: “Wels”
- Icelandic: “Wels”
- Ido: “Wels”
- Indonesian: “Wels”
- Irish: “Wels”
- Italian: “Wels”
- Japanese: “ヴェルス”
- Kazakh: “Velʹs”
- Kazakh: “Вельс”
- Kazakh: “ۆەلس”
- Korean: “벨스”
- Ladin: “Wels”
- Latin: “Ovilava”
- Latvian: “Velsa”
- Latvian: “Wels”
- Lithuanian: “Velsas”
- Lombard: “Wels”
- Luxembourgish: “Wels”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wels”
- Moksha: “Вэльс (ошсь)”
- Moksha: “Вэльс”
- Mongolian: “Вельс”
- Mongolian: “Вэлс”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wels”
- Norwegian: “Wels”
- Ossetian: “Вельс”
- Persian: “ولز”
- Persian: “ولس”
- Piemontese: “Wels”
- Polish: “Wels”
- Portuguese: “Wels”
- Romanian: “Wels”
- Russian: “Вельс”
- Russian: “Овилия”
- Scots: “Wels”
- Serbian: “Vels”
- Serbian: “Wels”
- Serbian: “Велс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wels”
- Slovak: “Wels”
- Slovenian: “Wels”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولس”
- Spanish: “Wels, Austria”
- Spanish: “Wels”
- Swedish: “Wels”
- Tatar: “Вельс”
- Thai: “เว็ลส์”
- Turkish: “Wels”
- Ukrainian: “Вельс”
- Urdu: “ولز”
- Venetian: “Wels”
- Vietnamese: “Wels”
- Volapük: “Wels”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wels”
- Welsh: “Wels”
- Western Panjabi: “ولز”
- Wu Chinese: “韦尔斯 (上奥地利州)”
- Wu Chinese: “韦尔斯（上奥地利州）”
- Yiddish: “וועלס”
- “Bels”
- “Wels”
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