Wuppertal

Wuppertal is a city in in the northwestern part of . It is famous for having the world's oldest monorail system, and as the birthplace of Friedrich Engels, co-author of the Communist Manifesto.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Engels-Haus and Bismarck Tower.

is a museum in Wuppertal, , of the house where German philosopher and political theorist Friedrich Engels grew up. The museum is a constituent member of the Museum of Industrial Culture in Wuppertal.

Museum
Photo: Gerardus, Public domain.
is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elberfeld and Barmen.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a municipal subdivision of the city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929.

Suburb
is a former industrial metropolis of the region of , , which merged with four other towns in 1929 to form the city of Wuppertal.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Wuppertal

Latitude
51.264° or 51° 15′ 51″ north
Longitude
7.178° or 7° 10′ 41″ east
Population
361,000
Elevation
150 metres (492 feet)
IATA airport code
UWP
United Nations Location Code
DE WUP
Open location code
9F39757H+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240090728
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2805753
Wiki­data ID
Q2107
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wuppertal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Wuppertal, Duitsland
  • Afrikaans: Wuppertal
  • Arabic: فوبرتال
  • Aragonese: Wuppertal
  • Armenian: Վուպերտալ
  • Arpitan: Wuppertal
  • Asturian: Wuppertal
  • Azerbaijani: Vuppertal
  • Balinese: Wuppertal
  • Basque: Wuppertal
  • Bavarian: Wuppertal
  • Belarusian: Вуперталь
  • Belarusian: Вупэрталь
  • Bengali: উপপের্টাল
  • Breton: Wuppertal
  • Bulgarian: Вупертал
  • Catalan: Wuppertal
  • Cebuano: Kreisfreie Stadt Wuppertal
  • Cebuano: Wuppertal (kapital sa distrito)
  • Cebuano: Wuppertal
  • Central Kurdish: ووپارتال
  • Chechen: Вупперталь
  • Chinese: Wuppertal
  • Chinese: 乌珀塔尔
  • Chinese: 伍珀塔尔
  • Chinese: 伍珀塔爾
  • Chinese: 巫婆塔
  • Chinese: 烏帕塔
  • Chinese: 烏帕塔爾
  • Corsican: Wuppertal
  • Croatian: Wuppertal
  • Czech: Wuppertal
  • Danish: Wuppertal
  • Dimli (individual language): Wuppertal
  • Dutch: Wuppertal
  • Esperanto: Wuppertal
  • Estonian: Wuppertal
  • Finnish: Wuppertal
  • French: Wuppertal
  • Friulian: Wuppertal
  • Galician: Wuppertal
  • Georgian: ვუპერტალი
  • German: Wuppertal
  • Greek: Βούπερταλ
  • Gujarati: વુપેર્ટલ
  • Hausa: Wuppertal
  • Hebrew: וופרטל
  • Hindi: वुप्पर्टल
  • Hungarian: Wuppertal
  • Icelandic: Wuppertal
  • Ido: Wuppertal
  • Indonesian: Wuppertal
  • Interlingua: Wuppertal
  • Interlingue: Wuppertal
  • Irish: Wuppertal
  • Italian: Wuppertal
  • Japanese: ヴッパータール
  • Kannada: ವುಪೆರ್ತಾಲ್
  • Kannada: ವುಪ್ಪರ್ಟಲ್
  • Kazakh: Вупперталь
  • Kirghiz: Вупперталь
  • Kölsch: Wuppertal
  • Kongo: Wuppertal
  • Korean: 부퍼탈
  • Kotava: Wuppertal
  • Kurdish: Wuppertal
  • Ladin: Wuppertal
  • Latin: Vallis Vipperae
  • Latin: Vallis Wipperae
  • Latin: Wuppertal
  • Latvian: Vupertāle
  • Ligurian: Wuppertal
  • Limburgan: Wuppertal
  • Lithuanian: Vupertalis
  • Low German: Wupperdaal
  • Low German: Wuppertal
  • Luxembourgish: Wuppertal
  • Macedonian: Вупертал
  • Malagasy: Wuppertal
  • Malay: Wuppertal
  • Marathi: वुपर्टाल
  • Min Nan Chinese: Wuppertal
  • Minangkabau: Wuppertal
  • Moksha: Вуппэрталь
  • Mongolian: Вупперталь
  • Narom: Wuppertal
  • Neapolitan: Wuppertal
  • Northern Frisian: Wuppertal
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Wuppertal
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Wuppertal
  • Norwegian: Wuppertal
  • Occitan (post 1500): Wuppertal
  • Ossetian: Вупперталь
  • Persian: ووپرتال
  • Picard: Wuppertal
  • Piemontese: Wuppertal
  • Polish: Wuppertal
  • Portuguese: Wuppertal
  • Quechua: Wuppertal
  • Romanian: Wuppertal
  • Romansh: Wuppertal
  • Russian: Вупперталь
  • Sardinian: Wuppertal
  • Saterfriesisch: Wuppertal
  • Scots: Wuppertal
  • Scottish Gaelic: Wuppertal
  • Serbian: Wuppertal
  • Serbian: Вупертал
  • Serbo-Croatian: Wuppertal
  • Sicilian: Wuppertal
  • Silesian: Wuppertal
  • Sinhala: වුපටල්
  • Slovak: Wuppertal
  • Slovenian: Wuppertal
  • South Azerbaijani: ووپرتال
  • Spanish: Wuppertal
  • Swahili: Wuppertal
  • Swedish: Wuppertal
  • Swiss German: Wuppertal
  • Tagalog: Wuppertal
  • Tamil: உப்பிபேர்டல்
  • Tatar: Вупперталь
  • Telugu: ఉప్పెర్టాల్
  • Thai: วุพเพอร์ทัล
  • Thai: วุพเพอร์ทาล
  • Tumbuka: Wuppertal
  • Turkish: Wuppertal
  • Udmurt: Вупперталь
  • Ukrainian: Вупперталь
  • Upper Sorbian: Wuppertal
  • Urdu: ووپاٹال
  • Uzbek: Vuppertal
  • Venetian: Wuppertal
  • Vietnamese: Wuppertal
  • Vlaams: Wuppertal
  • Volapük: Wuppertal
  • Walloon: Wuppertal
  • Waray (Philippines): Wuppertal
  • Welsh: Wuppertal
  • Western Frisian: Wuppertal
  • Western Panjabi: وپرٹال
  • Wolof: Wuppertal
  • Wu Chinese: 伍珀塔尔
  • Yue Chinese: 烏帕塔爾
  • Zulu: Wuppertal
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