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Wilmington

Wilmington is a city in the southeastern part of . It is the county seat of New Hanover County, and home to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the U.S.S.
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  • Type: City with 95,900 residents
  • Description: county seat city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “New Town”, “Newton”, “Wilmington, NC”, and “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Postal codes: 28401-28403 and 28405-28412
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Places of Interest

Highlights include USS North Carolina and Basilica Shrine of St. Mary.

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, hull number BB-55, is the lead ship of the North Carolina class of fast battleships, the first vessel of the type built for the United States Navy.

Church
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The is a minor basilica of the Catholic Church located in Wilmington, , in the Diocese of Raleigh. It was included as a contributing property in the Wilmington Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Bridge
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The is a steel vertical-lift bridge in . It carries US 17/US 76/US 421 across the between and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belville.

Village
is a town in , , United States. The population was 2,406 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Wilmington, NC metropolitan area.

Wilmington

Latitude
34.2353° or 34° 14′ 7″ north
Longitude
-77.9487° or 77° 56′ 55″ west
Population
95,900
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
IATA airport code
ILM
United Nations Location Codes
US ILM and US OXP
Open location code
876463P2+4G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158510981
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4499379
Wiki­data ID
Q659400
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Wilmington” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wilmington, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Wilmington”
  • Arabic: “ويلمينغتون، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Arabic: “ويلمينغتون”
  • Armenian: “Ուիլմինգտոն”
  • Asturian: “Wilmington”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uilminqton”
  • Basque: “Wilmington”
  • Belarusian: “Уілмінгтан”
  • Bengali: “উইলমিংটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Уилмингтън”
  • Catalan: “Wilmington”
  • Cebuano: “Wilmington”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویڵمینگتن”
  • Chechen: “Вилмингтон”
  • Chinese: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Chinese: “Wilmington”
  • Chinese: “威尔明顿”
  • Chinese: “威爾明頓”
  • Croatian: “Wilmington, Sjeverna Karolina”
  • Croatian: “Wilmington”
  • Czech: “Wilmington”
  • Danish: “Wilmington”
  • Dutch: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Dutch: “Wilmington”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويلمينجتون, نورث كارولاينا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويلمينجتون”
  • Esperanto: “Vilmingtono”
  • Esperanto: “Wilmington”
  • Finnish: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Finnish: “Wilmington”
  • French: “Wilmington”
  • Galician: “Wilmington”
  • German: “New Carthage”
  • German: “New Liverpool”
  • German: “Port City”
  • German: “Wilmington (North Carolina)”
  • German: “Wilmington”
  • Gilaki: “ويلمينگتن (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “ويلمينگتن”
  • Greek: “Ουίλμινγκτον”
  • Gujarati: “વિલ્મિંગ્ટન”
  • Haitian: “Wilmington, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hebrew: “וילמינגטון”
  • Hindi: “विलमिंगटन”
  • Hungarian: “Wilmington”
  • Indonesian: “Wilmington, Carolina Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Indonesian: “Wilmington”
  • Irish: “Wilmington, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Wilmington”
  • Italian: “Wilmington”
  • Japanese: “ウィルミントン (ノース・カロライナ州)”
  • Japanese: “ウィルミントン (ノースカロライナ州)”
  • Japanese: “ウィルミントン”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಲ್ಮಿಂಗ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “윌밍턴”
  • Ladin: “Wilmington”
  • Latin: “Vilmingtonum”
  • Latvian: “Vilmingtona”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilmingtonas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wilmington”
  • Malagasy: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Malagasy: “Wilmington”
  • Malay: “Wilmington”
  • Marathi: “विलमिंग्टन”
  • Marathi: “विल्मिंग्टन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wilmington”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilmington”
  • Norwegian: “Wilmington”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wilmington”
  • Ossetian: “Уилмингтон”
  • Persian: “ویلمینگتن، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “ویلمینگتن”
  • Polish: “Wilmington”
  • Portuguese: “Wilmington”
  • Pushto: “ویلمینګټن شمالي کارولینا”
  • Pushto: “ویلمینګټن”
  • Russian: “Вильмингтон”
  • Russian: “Уилмингтон”
  • Serbian: “Вилмингтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wilmington”
  • Silesian: “Wilmington”
  • Sinhala: “විල්මින්ග්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Wilmington”
  • Slovenian: “Wilmington”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویلمینقتن، قوزئی کارولینا”
  • Spanish: “Wilmington (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Wilmington”
  • Swahili: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Swahili: “Wilmington”
  • Swedish: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Wilmington”
  • Tamil: “வில்மிங்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Вилмиңтон”
  • Telugu: “విల్మింగ్టన్”
  • Thai: “วิลมิงตัน”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Wilmington”
  • Turkish: “Wilmington, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Wilmington”
  • Ukrainian: “Вілмінгтон”
  • Urdu: “ویلمینگٹن، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Wilmington”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilmington, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilmington”
  • Volapük: “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Wilmington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wilmington, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wilmington”
  • Welsh: “Wilmington, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Wilmington”
  • Western Frisian: “Wilmington”
  • “Wilmington”

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