Massachusetts
Worcester
City of Worcester

Worcester

Explore fine arts, history, and take in a show in Worcester, a medium sized city in about an hour's drive west of . Worcester's seven hills and their valleys contain top notch museums, nine colleges and universities, beautiful parks, and food from all over the globe.
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  • Type: City with 207,000 residents
  • Description: county seat city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Grafton Gore”, “Pakachoog”, “Worcester, MA”, “Worcester, Massachusetts”, and “Worchester, Massachusetts”
  • Postal codes: 01601-01610, 01613-01615, 01653, and 01655
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Clark University and Hanover Theatre & Conservancy for the Performing Arts.

University
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is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research universities in the United States.

Theater building
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The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts is a complex in Worcester, Massachusetts, that includes an auditorium, where touring acts perform regularly, and several classrooms that host classes relating to the arts.

Library
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The , located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fay Street Historic District and Main South.

Neighborhood
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The a small residential historic district encompassing two related triple decker houses in Worcester, . Built about 1896, they were noted for the preservation of their Queen Anne styling, which has since been removed.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in southern Worcester, . The area's eponymous feature is Main Street, the central roadway of the city. experienced rapid economic development from the 1890s until the 1950s.

Neighborhood
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The is an expansive residential area in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts. It is centered on Cedar and William Streets, and includes properties on adjacent streets.

Worcester

Latitude
42.2626° or 42° 15′ 45″ north
Longitude
-71.8019° or 71° 48′ 7″ west
Population
207,000
Elevation
482 feet (147 metres)
IATA airport code
ORH
United Nations Location Code
US ORH
Open location code
87JC757X+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158851900
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4956184
Wiki­data ID
Q49179
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Worcester” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Worcester”
  • Arabic: “ورسستر”
  • Aragonese: “Worcester”
  • Armenian: “Վուսթեր”
  • Asturian: “Worcester”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vuster”
  • Basque: “Worcester”
  • Belarusian: “Вустэр”
  • Belarusian: “Ўустэр”
  • Bengali: “উস্টার, ম্যাসাচুসেটস”
  • Bengali: “উস্টার”
  • Breton: “Worcester”
  • Bulgarian: “Устър”
  • Catalan: “Worcester”
  • Cebuano: “Worcester”
  • Central Kurdish: “وۆرسێستەر”
  • Chechen: “Вустер”
  • Chinese: “Worcester”
  • Chinese: “伍斯特”
  • Chinese: “窩士打”
  • Cornish: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Cornish: “Worcester”
  • Czech: “Worcester”
  • Dagbani: “Worcester”
  • Danish: “Worcester”
  • Dutch: “Worcester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ورسستر”
  • Esperanto: “Worcester”
  • Estonian: “Worcester”
  • Finnish: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Finnish: “Worcester”
  • French: “Worcester”
  • Galician: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Galician: “Worcester”
  • German: “Worcester”
  • Gilaki: “وۊستر (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “وۊستر”
  • Greek: “Γούστερ”
  • Greek: “Ουόρστερ”
  • Gujarati: “વર્સેસ્ટર”
  • Haitian: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Worcester”
  • Hebrew: “ווסטר”
  • Hindi: “वर्सेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Worcester”
  • Icelandic: “Worcester”
  • Indonesian: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Indonesian: “Worcester”
  • Indonesian: “Worchester, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Worcester”
  • Italian: “Worcester”
  • Japanese: “ウースター”
  • Kannada: “ವೋರ್ಸೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Уорсестэр”
  • Kirghiz: “Уорсестэр”
  • Korean: “우스터”
  • Ladin: “Worcester”
  • Latin: “Vigornia Massachusettensium”
  • Latin: “Vigornia”
  • Latvian: “Vorčestra”
  • Latvian: “Vustera”
  • Lithuanian: “Vusteris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Worcester”
  • Macedonian: “Вустер”
  • Malagasy: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Worcester”
  • Malay: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Malay: “Worcester”
  • Marathi: “वूस्टर, मॅसेच्युसेट्स”
  • Marathi: “वूस्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “ووستر (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “ووستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Worcester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Worcester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Worcester i Massachusetts”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Worcester i USA”
  • Norwegian: “Worcester”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Worcester”
  • Ossetian: “Вустер”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ووستر”
  • Persian: “ووستر، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “ووستر”
  • Piemontese: “Worcester”
  • Polish: “Worcester”
  • Portuguese: “Worcester”
  • Romanian: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Worcester”
  • Russian: “Вустер”
  • Sardinian: “Worcester”
  • Scots: “Worcester”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Worcester”
  • Serbian: “Ворчестер”
  • Serbian: “Вустер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Worcester”
  • Silesian: “Worcester”
  • Sinhala: “වෝසෙස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Worcester”
  • Slovenian: “Worcester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ووستر، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Worcester (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Worcester”
  • Swahili: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Worcester”
  • Swedish: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Worcester”
  • Tagalog: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Tagalog: “Worcester”
  • Tajik: “Вустер”
  • Tamil: “ஒற்ஸ்ஸ்டேர்”
  • Tatar: “Вустер”
  • Telugu: “వోర్సెస్టర్”
  • Thai: “วุร์สเตอร์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Worcester”
  • Turkish: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Worcester”
  • Ukrainian: “Вустер”
  • Urdu: “ووسٹر، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “ووسٹر”
  • Uzbek: “Worcester”
  • Venetian: “Worcester”
  • Vietnamese: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Worcester”
  • Volapük: “Worcester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Worcester”
  • Welsh: “Worcester, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Worcester”
  • Wu Chinese: “伍斯特 (马萨诸塞州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “伍斯特（马萨诸塞州）”
  • Yue Chinese: “窩士打”

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