Wigan
Wigan is an industrial town in Greater Manchester in the north of England. It's 17 miles northwest of central Manchester and until 1974 was part of Lancashire. In 2019 the population was 108,000.
- Type: Town with 81,200 residents
- Description: town in Greater Manchester, England
- Also known as: “Coccium”, “Виген”, “Уиген”, “維干”, “維甘”, “维冈”, “维根”, and “维甘”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Brick Community Stadium and Wigan North Western Railway Station.
Wigan North Western Railway Station
Railway station
Wigan Wallgate Railway Station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ince-in-Makerfield and Worsley Mesnes.
Wigan
- Categories: big city, unparished area, market town, and locality
- Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.5462° or 53° 32′ 46″ north
Longitude
-2.6319° or 2° 37′ 55″ west
Population
81,200
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
IATA airport code
XWI
UN/LOCODE
GB WGN
Open location code
9C5VG9W9+F6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Wigan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wigan”
- Arabic: “ويغان”
- Asturian: “Wigan”
- Basque: “Wigan”
- Belarusian: “Уіган”
- Belarusian: “Ўіган”
- Bengali: “উইগান”
- Breton: “Wigan”
- Bulgarian: “Уигън”
- Catalan: “Wigan”
- Cebuano: “Wigan (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Wigan”
- Chinese: “威根”
- Chinese: “維根”
- Chinese: “韋根”
- Czech: “Wigan”
- Danish: “Wigan”
- Dutch: “Wigan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويجان”
- Esperanto: “Wigan”
- Estonian: “Wigan”
- Finnish: “Wigan”
- French: “Wigan”
- German: “Wigan”
- Greek: “Γουίγκαν”
- Gujarati: “વિગાન”
- Hebrew: “ויגאן”
- Hungarian: “Wigan”
- Icelandic: “Wigan”
- Indonesian: “Wigan”
- Interlingue: “Wigan”
- Irish: “Wigan”
- Italian: “Wigan”
- Japanese: “ウィガン”
- Kannada: “ವಿಗಾನ್”
- Korean: “위건”
- Ladin: “Wigan”
- Latin: “Viganus”
- Latvian: “Vigana”
- Lithuanian: “Viganas”
- Lojban: “la uigyn”
- Low German: “Wigan”
- Luxembourgish: “Wigan”
- Manx: “Wigan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wigan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wigan”
- Norwegian: “Wigan”
- Persian: “ویگان”
- Polish: “Wigan”
- Portuguese: “Wigan”
- Romanian: “Wigan”
- Russian: “Уиган”
- Scots: “Wigan”
- Serbian: “Vigan”
- Serbian: “Виган”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wigan”
- Silesian: “Wigan”
- Slovak: “Wigan”
- Slovenian: “Wigan”
- Spanish: “Wigan”
- Swedish: “Wigan”
- Tamil: “விகன்”
- Tatar: “Виган”
- Telugu: “విజ్ఞ”
- Thai: “วิกัน”
- Turkish: “Wigan”
- Ukrainian: “Віган”
- Urdu: “ویگن”
- Venetian: “Wigan”
- Volapük: “Wigan”
- Welsh: “Wigan”
- Yue Chinese: “韋根”
- “Wigan”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Scholes Village and Wallgate.
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