Wels

Wels is a city in . Its old town is well worth seeing. It has about 59,000 inhabitants.
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  • Town with 59,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 317 metres (1,040 feet)
  • Description: statuary city in Upper Austria, Austria
Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Burg Wels and Wels Hauptbahnhof.

Public building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a public building.

Railway station
Photo: Linzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, occasionally Wels Central Station…

Museum
Photo: Dromedar61, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wels

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Latitude
48.1565° or 48° 9′ 24″ north
Longitude
14.0244° or 14° 1′ 28″ east
UN/LOCODE
AT WSL
Open location code
8FWP524F+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26748998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2761524
Wiki­data ID
Q178582

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yiddish—“Wels” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ወልስ”
  • Arabic: “فيلز”
  • Arabic: “فيلس”
  • Aragonese: “Wels”
  • Armenian: “Վելս”
  • Asturian: “Wels”
  • Azerbaijani: “Wels”
  • Balinese: “Wels”
  • Basque: “Wels”
  • Bavarian: “Wöis”
  • Bavarian: “Wös”
  • Belarusian: “Вельс”
  • Belarusian: “Вэльс”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েলস”
  • Bosnian: “Wels”
  • Breton: “Wels”
  • Bulgarian: “Велс”
  • Catalan: “Wels”
  • Cebuano: “Wels (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Wels”
  • Chechen: “Вельс”
  • 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”
  • Hindi: “वेल्स”
  • Hungarian: “Wels”
  • Icelandic: “Wels”
  • Ido: “Wels”
  • Indonesian: “Wels”
  • Irish: “Wels”
  • Italian: “Wels”
  • Japanese: “ヴェルス”
  • Javanese: “Wels”
  • Kazakh: “Velʹs”
  • Kazakh: “Вельс”
  • Kazakh: “ۆەلس”
  • Kirghiz: “Вельс”
  • Korean: “벨스”
  • Ladin: “Wels”
  • Latin: “Ovilava”
  • Latvian: “Velsa”
  • Latvian: “Wels”
  • Lithuanian: “Velsas”
  • Lombard: “Wels”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wels”
  • Malay: “Wels”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wels”
  • Moksha: “Вэльс (ошсь)”
  • Moksha: “Вэльс”
  • Mongolian: “Вельс”
  • Mongolian: “Вэлс”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wels”
  • Norwegian: “Wels”
  • Oromo: “Wels”
  • Ossetian: “Вельс”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੇਲਸ”
  • Persian: “فلس”
  • Persian: “ولز”
  • Persian: “ولس”
  • Piemontese: “Wels”
  • Polish: “Wels”
  • Portuguese: “Wels”
  • Pushto: “ویلس”
  • Romanian: “Wels”
  • Russian: “Вельс”
  • Russian: “Овилия”
  • Scots: “Wels”
  • Serbian: “Vels”
  • Serbian: “Wels”
  • Serbian: “Велс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wels”
  • Slovak: “Wels”
  • Slovenian: “Wels”
  • Somali: “Wels”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ولس”
  • Spanish: “Wels, Austria”
  • Spanish: “Wels”
  • Swahili: “Wels”
  • Swedish: “Wels”
  • Tajik: “Вельс”
  • Tatar: “Вельс”
  • Thai: “เว็ลส์”
  • Turkish: “Wels”
  • Ukrainian: “Вельс”
  • Urdu: “ولز”
  • Urdu: “ویلز”
  • Uzbek: “Wels”
  • 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”

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