Wrexham
Wrexham is a city in Clwyd in North Wales. It's industrial, but has lost its former trades of coal-mining and brick-making. It was granted "city" status in 2022, but this is ceremonial and doesn't affect its governance.
- Type: City with 61,600 residents
- Description: city in Wales, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “GB-WRX”, “Gwrecsam”, “Rekshamas”, “Vrekshamas”, “Wrexham, Wales”, and “רקסהם”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Racecourse Ground and Wrexham Cathedral.
Wrexham Central railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Acton and Offa.
Wrexham
- Categories: market town and locality
- Location: Caia Park, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.0465° or 53° 2′ 47″ north
Longitude
-2.9938° or 2° 59′ 38″ west
Population
61,600
Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB WXH
Open location code
9C5V22W4+JF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Wrexham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريكسهام”
- Arabic: “ورکسام”
- Armenian: “Ռեքսհեմ”
- Asturian: “Wrecsam”
- Bashkir: “Рексем”
- Basque: “Wrexam (hiria)”
- Basque: “Wrexam”
- Belarusian: “Рэксем”
- Belarusian: “Рэксэм”
- Breton: “Wrecsam”
- Bulgarian: “Рексъм”
- Cebuano: “Wrexham (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Wrexham”
- Chinese: “域斯咸”
- Chinese: “雷克斯漢姆”
- Chinese: “雷克瑟姆”
- Cornish: “Wreksam”
- Czech: “Wrexham”
- Danish: “Wrexham”
- Dutch: “Wrexham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريكسام”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ورکسام”
- Esperanto: “Wrekshamo”
- Estonian: “Wrexham”
- Finnish: “Wrexham”
- French: “Wrexham”
- Galician: “Wrecsam”
- German: “Wrexham”
- Greek: “Ρέξαμ”
- Hebrew: “רקסהאם”
- Hungarian: “Wrexham”
- Irish: “Wrecsam”
- Italian: “Wrexham”
- Japanese: “レクサム”
- Korean: “렉섬”
- Latin: “Urithlesia”
- Latvian: “Reksema”
- Lithuanian: “Reksamas”
- Livvi: “Wrecsam”
- Maltese: “Wrexham”
- Mongolian: “Рексем”
- Northern Frisian: “Wrexham”
- Northern Sami: “Wrecsam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wrexham”
- Norwegian: “Wrexham”
- Persian: “ورکسام”
- Polish: “Wrexham”
- Portuguese: “Wrexham”
- Quechua: “Wrexham”
- Romanian: “Wrexham”
- Russian: “Рексем”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wrecsam”
- Serbian: “Reksam”
- Serbian: “Рексам”
- Silesian: “Wrexham”
- Slovak: “Wrexham”
- South Azerbaijani: “ورکسام”
- Spanish: “Wrexham”
- Swedish: “Wrexham”
- Tatar: “Рексем”
- Thai: “เรกซัม”
- Turkish: “Wrexham”
- Ukrainian: “Рексем”
- Urdu: “ریکس ہیم”
- Võro: “Wrecsam”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wrexham”
- Welsh: “Wrecsam”
- Yue Chinese: “域斯咸”
- “Wrexham”
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Places to explore: City Centre and Maesydre.
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