Whitechapel
Whitechapel is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. It is the location of Tower Hamlets Town Hall and the borough town centre.
- Type: Suburb with 14,900 residents
- Description: district within East London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Districto de Whitechapel”, “Whitechapel District”, “ꠗꠟꠣꠌꠣꠙꠦꠟ”, “ホワイト・チャペル”, “ホワイトチャッペル”, and “白教堂 (倫敦)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: East London Mosque and The Tower of London.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mile End New Town and Spitalfields.
Mile End New Town
Locality
Mile End New Town is a former hamlet and then civil parish in the East End of London.
Spitalfields
Quarter
St George in the East
Quarter
Photo: Klusiwurm, Public domain.Whitechapel
- Categories: town, area of London, and locality
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51749° or 51° 31′ 3″ north
Longitude
-0.06597° or 0° 3′ 58″ west
Population
14,900
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB WC8
Open location code
9C3XGW8M+XJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Whitechapel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وايت تشابل”
- Asturian: “Whitechapel”
- Azerbaijani: “Uaytçepel”
- Azerbaijani: “Vaytçepel”
- Basque: “Whitechapel”
- Breton: “Whitechapel”
- Bulgarian: “Уайтчапъл”
- Catalan: “Whitechapel”
- Chinese: “怀特查珀尔”
- Chinese: “白教堂”
- Czech: “Whitechapel”
- Danish: “Whitechapel”
- Dutch: “Whitechapel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وايت تشابل”
- Esperanto: “Blankkapelo”
- Finnish: “Whitechapel”
- French: “Whitechapel”
- Galician: “Whitechapel”
- German: “Whitechapel”
- Greek: “Ουάιτσαπελ”
- Hebrew: “וייטצ’אפל”
- Hindi: “व्हाइटचैपल”
- Hindi: “ह्वाइटचैपल”
- Hungarian: “Whitechapel”
- Indonesian: “Whitechapel”
- Irish: “Whitechapel”
- Italian: “Whitechapel”
- Japanese: “ホワイトチャペル”
- Korean: “화이트채플”
- Ladin: “Whitechapel”
- Latin: “Alba Capella”
- Macedonian: “Вајтчепел”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whitechapel”
- Norwegian: “Whitechapel”
- Persian: “وایتچپل”
- Polish: “Whitechapel”
- Portuguese: “Whitechapel”
- Russian: “Уайтчепел”
- Scots: “Whitechapel”
- Serbian: “Вајтчепел”
- Slovenian: “Whitechapel”
- South Azerbaijani: “وایتچپل، لندن”
- Spanish: “Whitechapel”
- Swedish: “Whitechapel”
- Sylheti: “ꠢꠥꠀꠁꠐ꠆ꠌꠣꠙꠦꠟ”
- Turkish: “Whitechapel”
- Ukrainian: “Вайтчепел”
- Urdu: “وائٹ چیپل”
- Urdu: “وائیٹچیپل”
- Vietnamese: “Whitechapel”
- Welsh: “Whitechapel”
- Wu Chinese: “白庙区”
- Yue Chinese: “白教堂”
- “Whitechapel”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Goodmans Fields and Aldgate.
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Highlights: Al-Mizan School and London East Academy.
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