Wuppertal
Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in the northwestern part of Germany. It is famous for having the world's oldest monorail system, and as the birthplace of Friedrich Engels, co-author of the Communist Manifesto.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Engels-Haus and Bismarck Tower.
Engels-Haus
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Engels-Haus is a museum in Wuppertal, Germany, 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.
Waldfrieden Sculpture Park
Museum
Photo: Gerardus, Public domain.
Waldfrieden Sculpture Park is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elberfeld and Barmen.
Elberfeld
Suburb
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Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929.
Barmen
Suburb
Photo: Manos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barmen is a former industrial metropolis of the region of Bergisches Land, Germany, which merged with four other towns in 1929 to form the city of Wuppertal.
Wuppertal
Latitude
51.264° or 51° 15′ 51″ northLongitude
7.178° or 7° 10′ 41″ eastPopulation
361,000Elevation
150 metres (492 feet)IATA airport code
UWPUnited Nations Location Code
DE WUPOpen location code
9F39757H+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 240090728OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2805753Wikidata 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”
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- 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”
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- Finnish: “Wuppertal”
- French: “Wuppertal”
- Friulian: “Wuppertal”
- Galician: “Wuppertal”
- Georgian: “ვუპერტალი”
- German: “Wuppertal”
- Greek: “Βούπερταλ”
- Gujarati: “વુપેર્ટલ”
- Hausa: “Wuppertal”
- Hebrew: “וופרטל”
- Hindi: “वुप्पर्टल”
- Hungarian: “Wuppertal”
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- Ido: “Wuppertal”
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- 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”
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- 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”
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- 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”
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- Polish: “Wuppertal”
- Portuguese: “Wuppertal”
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- Russian: “Вупперталь”
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- 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”
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- 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”
- “Wuppertal”
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