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Wigan

Wigan is an industrial town in 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brick Community Stadium and Wigan North Western Railway Station.

Stadium
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The is a multi-use stadium in Robin Park in Wigan, , England. It is used by Wigan Warriors rugby league club and Wigan Athletic football club.

Railway station
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Wigan North Western is one of two railway stations that serve the town centre of Wigan, in , England; the other is , 110 yards away.

Railway station
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Wigan Wallgate is one of two railway stations serving the town centre of Wigan, in , England; the other is , which is 100 metres away across the street named Wallgate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hindley and Worsley Mesnes.

Town
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is a town within the in , England. It is three miles east of Wigan and covers an area of 2,580 acres. is situated 2½ miles east of Wigan.

Suburb
is a suburb of Wigan in the in , . The ward population at the 2011 census was 11,974.

Suburb
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is an area of Wigan, in , England. It lies on the southwestern bank of the River Douglas, and east of the M6 motorway. The area is contiguous with Orrell and as a ward has a population of 13,638, increasing to 13,982 at the 2011 Census.

Wigan

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
United Nations Location Code
GB WGN
Open location code
9C5VG9W9+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27329909
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2633948
Wiki­data ID
Q208143
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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: “維干”
  • Chinese: “維根”
  • Chinese: “維甘”
  • Chinese: “维冈”
  • Chinese: “维根”
  • Chinese: “维甘”
  • 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”
  • Lithuanian: “Wigan”
  • Lojban: “la uigyn”
  • Low German: “Wigan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wigan”
  • Manx: “Wigan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wigan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Coccium”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wigan”
  • Norwegian: “Wigan”
  • Persian: “ویگان”
  • Polish: “Wigan”
  • Portuguese: “Wigan”
  • Romanian: “Wigan”
  • Russian: “Виген”
  • Russian: “Уиган”
  • Russian: “Уиген”
  • Scots: “Wigan”
  • Serbian: “Vigan”
  • Serbian: “Wigan”
  • 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: “وگن”
  • Venetian: “Wigan”
  • Volapük: “Wigan”
  • Welsh: “Wigan”
  • Yue Chinese: “韋根”

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