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Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is in the county of . Whilst Wolverhampton isn't well known as a tourist attraction, those visiting friends at the University of Wolverhampton, enjoying a football match at the famous Molineux Stadium or attending a concert at one of the fine local music venues will probably be pleasantly surprised by what this city has to offer.
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  • Type: City with 251,000 residents
  • Description: city in the West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Wolverhampton, England”, “Wolverhampton, Staffordshire”, “Wolverhampton, United Kingdom”, and “Wolverhampton, West Midlands”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Molineux Stadium and Wolverhampton station.

Stadium
Photo: John Nickolls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a football stadium situated in Wolverhampton, , England. It has been the home ground of Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers since 1889.

Railway station
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is a step-free access regional interchange railway station situated in Wolverhampton, , England on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line.

Museum
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is located in Wolverhampton, . The building was funded and constructed by local contractor Philip Horsman, and built on land provided by the municipal authority. It opened in May 1884.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wednesfield and Bilston.

Town
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is a town and historic village in the City of Wolverhampton, in the county of the , England; it was historically within the county of .

Town
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is a market town in the City of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England. It is in the , 2.5 miles south east of Wolverhampton city centre and close to the borders of Sandwell and Walsall.

Town
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is a market town in the Walsall district, in the county of the , England, with a population taken at the 2021 Census of 49,587.

Wolverhampton

Latitude
52.5848° or 52° 35′ 5″ north
Longitude
-2.1276° or 2° 7′ 39″ west
Population
251,000
Elevation
525 feet (160 metres)
IATA airport code
XVW
United Nations Location Code
GB WOV
Open location code
9C4VHVMC+WX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25472086
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2633691
Wiki­data ID
Q126269
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Wolverhampton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wolverhampton”
  • Albanian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Arabic: “ولفرهامبتن”
  • Arabic: “وولفرهامبتن”
  • Arabic: “وولفرهامبتون”
  • Aragonese: “Wolverhampton”
  • Armenian: “Վուլվերհեմպտոն”
  • Armenian: “Վուլվերհեմփտոն”
  • Asturian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vulverhempton”
  • Balinese: “Wolverhampton”
  • Basque: “Wolverhampton”
  • Belarusian: “Вулвергемптан”
  • Belarusian: “Вулверхэмптан”
  • Belarusian: “Ўулвэргэмптан”
  • Bengali: “উভারহ্যাম্পটন”
  • Breton: “Wolverhampton”
  • Bulgarian: “Улвърхамптън”
  • Bulgarian: “Улвърхямптън”
  • Bulgarian: “Уулвърхямптън”
  • Catalan: “Wolverhampton”
  • Cebuano: “Wolverhampton”
  • Chinese: “Wolverhampton”
  • Chinese: “伍尔弗汉普顿”
  • Chinese: “伍爾弗漢普頓”
  • Chinese: “和夫咸頓”
  • Czech: “Wolverhampton”
  • Danish: “Wolverhampton”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wolverhampton”
  • Dutch: “Wolverhampton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولڤرهامبتن”
  • Esperanto: “Wolverhampton”
  • Estonian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Faroese: “Wolverhampton”
  • Finnish: “Wolverhampton”
  • French: “Wolverhampton”
  • Galician: “Wolverhampton”
  • Georgian: “ვულვერჰემპტონი”
  • German: “Wolverhampton”
  • Greek: “Γουλβερχάμπτον, Αγγλία”
  • Greek: “Γουλβερχάμπτον”
  • Gujarati: “વોલ્વરહેમ્પ્ટન”
  • Hausa: “Wolverhampton”
  • Hebrew: “וולברהאמפטון”
  • Hebrew: “וולברהאמפתון”
  • Hebrew: “וולברהמפטון”
  • Hebrew: “וולברהמפתון”
  • Hindi: “वॉल्वरहैम्प्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Icelandic: “Wolverhampton”
  • Inari Sami: “Wolverhampton”
  • Indonesian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Interlingue: “Wolverhampton”
  • Irish: “Wolverhampton”
  • Italian: “City of Wolverhampton”
  • Italian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Japanese: “ウォルヴァーハンプトン”
  • Japanese: “ウォルバーハンプトン”
  • Japanese: “ウルヴァーハンプトン”
  • Japanese: “ウルバーハンプトン”
  • Kannada: “ವೋಲ್ವರ್ ಹಾಂಪ್ಟಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ವೋಲ್ವರ್ಹಾಂಪ್ಟಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Вулвергемптон”
  • Korean: “울버햄턴”
  • Korean: “울버햄튼”
  • Korean: “울버햄프턴”
  • Kurdish: “Wolverhampton”
  • Ladin: “Wolverhampton”
  • Latin: “Wolverhampton”
  • Latin: “Wolvrenehamptonia”
  • Latin: “Wulfrunehantona”
  • Latvian: “Volverhemptona”
  • Latvian: “Vulverhemptona”
  • Latvian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Lithuanian: “Volverhamptonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vulverhamptonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wolverhampton”
  • Macedonian: “Волверхемптон”
  • Macedonian: “Вулверхемптон”
  • Malay: “Wolverhampton”
  • Manipuri: “ꯋꯣꯜꯚꯔꯍꯦꯝꯞꯇꯣꯟ”
  • Marathi: “वोल्वरहॅम्प्टन”
  • Mazanderani: “ولورهمپتون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wolverhampton”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Northern Sami: “Wolverhampton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “City of Wolverhampton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wolverhampton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wolverhampton”
  • Norwegian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Heantun”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wolverhampton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wulfrūnehēantūn”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੁਲਵਰਹੈਂਪਟਨ”
  • Persian: “ولورهمپتون”
  • Polish: “Wolverhampton”
  • Portuguese: “Wolverhampton”
  • Quechua: “Wolverhampton”
  • Romanian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Russian: “Вулвергемптон”
  • Russian: “Вульвергемптон”
  • Scots: “Wolverhampton”
  • Serbian: “Vulverhempton”
  • Serbian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Serbian: “Волверхемптон”
  • Serbian: “Вулверхемптон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vulverhempton”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Silesian: “Wolverhampton”
  • Sinhala: “වුල්වර්හැම්ටන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Wolverhampton”
  • Slovak: “Wolverhampton”
  • Slovenian: “Wolverhampton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ولورهمپتون”
  • Spanish: “Wolverhampton (Inglaterra)”
  • Spanish: “Wolverhampton”
  • Swahili: “Wolverhampton”
  • Swedish: “Wolverhampton”
  • Tagalog: “Wolverhampton”
  • Tamil: “ஓள்வேர்ஹாம்டன்”
  • Tamil: “வல்வேர்ஹாம்ப்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Вулверһәмптон”
  • Telugu: “వోల్వెర్హాంప్టన్”
  • Thai: “Wolverhampton”
  • Thai: “วุลเวอร์แฮมป์ตัน”
  • Thai: “วูล์ฟแฮมป์ตัน”
  • Thai: “โวลเวอร์แฮมพ์ตัน”
  • Turkish: “Wolverhampton”
  • Ukrainian: “Вулвергемптон”
  • Urdu: “وولورہیمپٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Wolverhampton (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Wolverhampton”
  • Vietnamese: “Wolverhampton”
  • Volapük: “Wolverhampton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wolverhampton”
  • Welsh: “Wolverhampton”
  • Western Panjabi: “وولورہیمپٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “伍尔弗汉普顿”
  • Yiddish: “וואלווערהאמפטאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “和夫咸頓”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wolverhampton”. Photo: Mariegriffiths, CC BY-SA 4.0.