Local time
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Winston-Salem
36.11° N, 80.26° W
- Population
- 281,683
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 136 of 420
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 420 cities of United States of America in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of United States of America, so this is not a national ranking.
- State
- North Carolina State
- Natural Earth marks this city as the capital of a first-level administrative unit; the state is the one whose boundary contains the city.
- Founded
- 1766
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 300 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 346 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Forsyth County
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Joseph Winston
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-18
- Time zone
- America/New_York
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Winston-Salem, from the same records as the rest of this page.
Country
United States of AmericaCountry profileOn the ground
No mapped places yetDistricts not mappedNo places in Winston-Salem have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
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