Waco
Waco is a city in the Blackland Prairie region of north central Texas. Waco is best known in Texas for being the home of Baylor University, the largest Baptist university in the world, chartered during the Republic of Texas.Photo: Aboxorocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 138,000 residents
- Description: city in and seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States
- Postal codes: 76701-76708, 76710, 76711, 76714-76716 and 76797-76799
Notable Places in the Area
Waco Hippodrome Theatre
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Waco Hippodrome Theatre is a movie theater.
Cameron Park Zoo
Cameron Park Zoo is a 52-acre natural habitat zoo located within Cameron Park in the city of Waco, Texas, United States, next to the Brazos River.Waco Suspension Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Waco Suspension Bridge crosses the Brazos River in Waco, Texas.
Localities in the Area
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is a city in McLennan County, Texas, United States.Waco
- Categories: city in the United States, big city, county seat and locality
- Location: McLennan, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
31.5492° or 31° 32' 57" northLongitude
-97.1475° or 97° 8' 51" westPopulation
138,000Elevation
143 metres (469 feet)IATA airport code
ACTUnited Nations Location Code
US ACTOpen Location Code
8634GVX3+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 151563130OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4739526Wikidata ID
Q128244Waco Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Waco, Texas
- Arabic: واكو
- Arabic: واكو، تكساس
- Armenian: Ուեյկո
- Asturian: Waco
- Azerbaijani: Vako
- Basque: Waco (Texas)
- Basque: Waco
- Belarusian: Уэйка
- Bengali: উয়েকু
- Bulgarian: Уейко
- Bulgarian: Уейкоу
- Catalan: Waco
- Cebuano: Waco (kapital sa kondado)
- Cebuano: Waco
- Chechen: Вейко
- Chinese: 韋科
- Chinese: 韦科
- Croatian: Waco
- Czech: Waco
- Dagbani: Waco
- Danish: Waco
- Dutch: Waco
- Egyptian Arabic: واكو
- English: Waco, TX
- English: Waco, Texas
- Esperanto: Waco
- Finnish: Waco
- French: Waco
- German: Waco
- Greek: Ουέϊκο
- Gujarati: વાકો
- Haitian: Waco, Texas
- Hebrew: וייקו
- Hindi: वाको, टेक्सस
- Hindi: वाको
- Hungarian: Waco
- Ido: Waco, Texas
- Indonesian: Waco
- Irish: Waco, Texas
- Italian: Waco
- Japanese: ウェーコ
- Kannada: ವಾಕೊ
- Korean: 웨이코
- Ladin: Waco (Texas)
- Ladin: Waco
- Latin: Waco
- Latvian: Veiko
- Lithuanian: Veikas
- Luxembourgish: Waco
- Malagasy: Waco, Texas
- Malay: Waco
- Marathi: वेको, टेक्सास
- Marathi: वेको
- Norwegian: Waco
- Norwegian Bokmål: Waco
- Persian: ویکو، تگزاس
- Polish: Waco
- Portuguese: Waco
- Romanian: Waco, Texas
- Russian: Вако
- Russian: Уэйко
- Scots: Waco
- Serbian: Вејко
- Serbo-Croatian: Waco, Texas
- Serbo-Croatian: Waco
- Silesian: Waco
- Sinhala: වැකෝ
- Slovak: Waco
- Slovenian: Waco, Texas
- South Azerbaijani: ویکو، تکزاس
- Spanish: Waco
- Spanish: Waco (Texas)
- Swahili: Waco, Texas
- Swedish: Waco, Texas
- Swedish: Waco
- Tagalog: Waco, Texas
- Tagalog: Waco
- Tamil: வாகோ
- Tatar: Вейко
- Telugu: వాకో
- Thai: เวโก
- Turkish: Waco, Teksas
- Turkish: Waco
- Ukrainian: Вейко
- Urdu: ویکو، ٹیکساس
- Uzbek: Waco
- Venetian: Waco
- Vietnamese: Waco, Texas
- Vietnamese: Waco
- Volapük: Waco
- Waray (Philippines): Waco, Texas
- Welsh: Waco, Texas
- Western Panjabi: ویکو
Other Places Named Waco
In the Area
- East WacoHamlet
- Waco JunctionLocality
- BellmeadVillage
- JewellHamlet
- WoodwayVillage
- BosquevilleHamlet
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