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Wisconsin is a state in the in the . Being home to two Great Lakes, thousands of inland lakes and waterways, the state could easily be called the nation's "waterworld".
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Milwaukee and Madison.

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is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin, United States. The city's population is about 600,000 with about 1.6 million in the metropolitan area. It is in the southeastern portion of the state on the western shore of Lake Michigan.

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, the capital of Wisconsin, is situated on an isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. As the anchor of the , it is home to the University of Wisconsin — , one of the premier universities in the United States.

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is a city in and counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the county seat of County. It is the seventh-most populous city in Wisconsin, with a population of 69,421 at the 2020 census.

Destinations to Discover

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is a region of Wisconsin.

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The region of is in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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The region, also known as "Indianhead County", is in Wisconsin.

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is in Wisconsin.

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is in Wisconsin. The region’s numerous lakes and forests make it a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts during the summer season.

Wisconsin

Latitude of center
44.4309° or 44° 25′ 51″ north
Longitude of center
-89.6885° or 89° 41′ 19″ west
Population
5,760,000
Elevation
1,115 feet (340 metres)
Abbreviation
“WI”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 317007239
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5279468
Wiki­data ID
Q1537
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Wisconsin” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wisconsin”
  • Albanian: “Uiskonsin”
  • Albanian: “Wisconsin”
  • Amharic: “ዊስኮንሲን”
  • Arabic: “وسكنسن”
  • Arabic: “ولاية ويسكونسن”
  • Arabic: “ويسكنسن”
  • Arabic: “ويسكنسون”
  • Arabic: “ويسكونسن”
  • Aragonese: “Wisconsin”
  • Armenian: “Վիսկոնսին”
  • Assamese: “উইচকনচিন”
  • Assamese: “ৱিচকনচিন”
  • Asturian: “Wisconsin”
  • Aymara: “Wisconsin suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Viskonsin”
  • Balinese: “Wisconsin”
  • Bashkir: “Висконсин”
  • Basque: “Wisconsin”
  • Bavarian: “Wisconsin”
  • Belarusian: “Вісконсін”
  • Bengali: “উইসকনসিন”
  • Bhojpuri: “विस्कांसिन”
  • Bishnupriya: “উইসকনসিন”
  • Bislama: “Wisconsin”
  • Bosnian: “Wisconsin”
  • Breton: “Wisconsin”
  • Bulgarian: “Уисконсин”
  • Burmese: “ဝစ္စကွန်းဆင်းပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Wisconsin”
  • Cebuano: “Wisconsin”
  • Central Bikol: “Wisconsin”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویسکانسن”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویسکۆنسن”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویسکۆنسین”
  • Chavacano: “Wisconsin”
  • Chechen: “Висконсин”
  • Chinese: “Wisconsin”
  • Chinese: “威斯康星州 / 威斯康辛州”
  • Chinese: “威斯康星州”
  • Chinese: “威斯康森州”
  • Chinese: “威斯康辛州”
  • Chuvash: “Висконсин”
  • Cornish: “Wisconsin”
  • Corsican: “Wisconsin”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Viskonsin”
  • Croatian: “Wisconsin”
  • Czech: “State of Wisconsin”
  • Czech: “Wisconsin”
  • Dagbani: “Wisconsin”
  • Danish: “Wisconsin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wisconsin”
  • Dutch: “WI”
  • Dutch: “Wisconsin”
  • Eastern Mari: “Висконсин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويسكونسين”
  • Esperanto: “La Mela Ŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Viskonsino”
  • Esperanto: “Viskonsino”
  • Esperanto: “WI”
  • Estonian: “Wisconsin”
  • Ewe: “Wisconsin”
  • Faroese: “Wisconsin”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Wisconsin”
  • Finnish: “Wisconsin”
  • French: “Wisconsin”
  • Friulian: “Wisconsin”
  • Gagauz: “Wisconsin”
  • Galician: “Wisconsin”
  • Georgian: “უისკონსინი”
  • German: “Käsestaat”
  • German: “Wisconsin”
  • Gothic: “𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌹𐌽”
  • Gothic: “𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍉𐌽𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ουισκόνσιν”
  • Guarani: “Wisconsin”
  • Gujarati: “વિસ્કોન્સિન”
  • Haitian: “Wiskonnsenn”
  • Haitian: “Wiskonnsin”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Wisconsin”
  • Hausa: “Wisconsin”
  • Hawaiian: “Wikonekina”
  • Hebrew: “ויסקונסין”
  • Hindi: “विस्कॉन्सिन”
  • Hungarian: “Wisconsin”
  • Icelandic: “Wisconsin”
  • Ido: “Wisconsin”
  • Igbo: “Wiskonsin”
  • Iloko: “Wisconsin”
  • Inari Sami: “Wisconsin”
  • Indonesian: “Wisconsin”
  • Interlingua: “Wisconsin”
  • Interlingue: “Wisconsin”
  • Inupiaq: “Uisqonsin”
  • Irish: “Wisconsin”
  • Italian: “Wisconsin”
  • Japanese: “ウィスコンシン州”
  • Javanese: “Wisconsin”
  • Kabiyè: “Wiskɔnsɛɛ”
  • Kabyle: “Wisconsin”
  • Kalmyk: “Вискаансин”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಸ್ಕೊನ್‌ಸಿನ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Висконсин”
  • Kazakh: “Висконсин”
  • Kirghiz: “Висконсин”
  • Korean: “위스콘신”
  • Korean: “위스콘신주”
  • Kurdish: “Wisconsin”
  • Ladin: “Wisconsin”
  • Ladino: “Wisconsin”
  • Latin: “Visconsinia”
  • Latvian: “Viskonsina”
  • Ligurian: “Wisconsin”
  • Limburgan: “Wisconsin”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Wisconsin”
  • Literary Chinese: “威斯康辛州”
  • Lithuanian: “Viskonsinas”
  • Lombard: “Wisconsin”
  • Low German: “Wisconsin”
  • Low German: “Wiskonsin”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wisconsin”
  • Macedonian: “Висконсин”
  • Maithili: “विस्कान्सिन”
  • Malagasy: “Hoiskaonsiny”
  • Malagasy: “Wisconsin”
  • Malay: “Wisconsin”
  • Malayalam: “വിസ്കോൺസിൻ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯋꯤꯁ꯭ꯀꯣꯟꯁꯤꯟ”
  • Manx: “Wisconsin”
  • Maori: “Wehekone”
  • Maori: “Wisconsin”
  • Marathi: “विस्कॉन्सिन”
  • Mazanderani: “ویسکانسین”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Wisconsin”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wisconsin”
  • Mingrelian: “ვისკონსინი”
  • Mongolian: “Висконсин”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ويسكونسين”
  • Nauru: “Wisconsin”
  • Navajo: “Beʼekʼidtaʼ Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “विस्कान्सिन”
  • Newari: “विन्कोसिन”
  • Newari: “विस्कन्सिन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wisconsin”
  • Northern Luri: “ویسکانسین”
  • Northern Sami: “Wisconsin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “WI”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wisc.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wisconsin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wisconsin”
  • Norwegian: “Wisconsin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wisconsin”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܘܝܣܟܘܢܣܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wisconsin”
  • Ossetian: “Висконсин”
  • Pali: “विन्कोसिन”
  • Pampanga: “Wisconsin”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਸਕਾਂਸਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Wisconsin”
  • Persian: “ویسکانسین”
  • Picard: “Wisconsin”
  • Piemontese: “Wisconsin”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Wiskonsiin”
  • Polish: “Wisconsin”
  • Portuguese: “Wisconsin”
  • Pushto: “ویسکانسین”
  • Quechua: “Wisconsin suyu”
  • Romanian: “Wisconsin”
  • Romansh: “Wisconsin”
  • Russia Buriat: “Висконсин”
  • Russian: “Висконсин”
  • Samogitian: “Viskonsėns”
  • Sanskrit: “विस्‍कान्‍सिन”
  • Sanskrit: “विस्कान्सिन्”
  • Sardinian: “Wisconsin”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wisconsin”
  • Scots: “Wisconsin”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wisconsin”
  • Serbian: “Висконсин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wisconsin”
  • Sicilian: “Wisconsin”
  • Silesian: “Wisconsin”
  • Sindhi: “وسڪونسن”
  • Sinhala: “විස්කොන්සින්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Wisconsin”
  • Slovak: “Wisconsin”
  • Slovenian: “WI”
  • Slovenian: “Wisconsin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویسکانسین ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “El Estado del Tejón”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Badger”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Wisconsin”
  • Spanish: “Estado De Wisconsin”
  • Spanish: “La Lechería de Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Wisconsin, Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Wisconsin”
  • Swahili: “Wisconsin”
  • Swedish: “Wisconsin”
  • Tagalog: “Wisconsin”
  • Tajik: “Висконсин”
  • Talysh: “Viskonsin”
  • Tamil: “விஸ்கான்சின்”
  • Tamil: “விஸ்கொன்சின்”
  • Tatar: “Висконсин”
  • Telugu: “విస్కాన్సిన్”
  • Thai: “เขตบริเซนิ”
  • Thai: “รัฐวิสคอนซิน”
  • Tibetan: “ཝིས་སི་ཁོན་སིན།”
  • Tumbuka: “Wisconsin”
  • Turkish: “State of Wisconsin”
  • Turkish: “US-WI”
  • Turkish: “WI”
  • Turkish: “Wis.”
  • Turkish: “Wisc.”
  • Turkish: “Wisconsin eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Wisconsin, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Wisconsin”
  • Uighur: “Wiskonsin Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Вісконсин”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wisconsin”
  • Urdu: “وسکونسن”
  • Uzbek: “Viskonsin”
  • Venetian: “Wisconsin”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiểu bang Wisconsin”
  • Vietnamese: “WI”
  • Vietnamese: “Wisconsin, Hoa Kỳ”
  • Vietnamese: “Wisconsin”
  • Vlaams: “Wisconsin”
  • Vlax Romani: “Wisconsin”
  • Volapük: “Wisconsin”
  • Walloon: “Wisconsene”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wisconsin”
  • Welsh: “Wisconsin”
  • Western Frisian: “Wiskonsin”
  • Western Mari: “Висконсин”
  • Western Panjabi: “وسکونسن”
  • Wu Chinese: “威斯康星州”
  • Wu Chinese: “威斯康辛州”
  • Yakut: “Уисконсин”
  • Yiddish: “וויסקאנסין”
  • Yoruba: “Wisconsin”
  • Yue Chinese: “威斯康辛州”
  • Zeeuws: “Wisconsin”
  • Zhuang: “Wisconsin”
  • “ma Wikansen”
  • “US-WI”
  • “Viskonsėns”
  • “Wisconsin”
  • “Wiscònsin”
  • “विस्कांसिन”

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