Southwark
Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: district of Central London, England
- Also known as: “Borough” and “The Borough”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tate Modern and Shakespeares Globe.
Tate Modern
Art gallery
Shakespeares Globe
London Bridge
The name "London Bridge" refers to several historical crossings that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark in central London since Roman times.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bankside and Gabriel’s Wharf.
Bankside
Quarter
Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, 1.5 miles east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock.
Gabriel’s Wharf
Locality
Blackfriars
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Southwark
- Categories: ancient borough, area of London, market town, and locality
- Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50565° or 51° 30′ 20″ north
Longitude
-0.09957° or 0° 5′ 58″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SWR
Open location code
9C3XGW42+75
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Southwark from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Southwark” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Southwark”
- Arabic: “ساوثوارك”
- Arabic: “ساوثوورك”
- Armenian: “Սաութարկ”
- Azerbaijani: “Sautuark”
- Balinese: “Southwark (borough London)”
- Balinese: “Southwark”
- Basque: “Southwark”
- Belarusian: “Саўтуарк”
- Belarusian: “Саўтўарк”
- Bengali: “সাউথওয়ার্ক”
- Bulgarian: “Съдък”
- Catalan: “Southwark”
- Chinese: “南华克”
- Chinese: “南華克”
- Chinese: “萨瑟克”
- Chinese: “薩瑟克”
- Czech: “Southwark”
- Dutch: “Southwark”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساذارك”
- Esperanto: “Southwark”
- Estonian: “Southwark”
- Finnish: “Southwark”
- French: “Southwark”
- Galician: “Southwark”
- Georgian: “საუთვარკი”
- Georgian: “საუთუარკი”
- German: “Southwark”
- Greek: “Σάουθουαρκ”
- Gujarati: “સાઉથવાર્ક”
- Hebrew: “לונדון/סאות’ווארק-לואישהאם”
- Hindi: “सदक”
- Hindi: “साउथवार्क”
- Indonesian: “Southwark”
- Irish: “Southwark”
- Italian: “Southwark”
- Japanese: “サザーク”
- Japanese: “サザック”
- Kannada: “ಸೌತ್ವಾರ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “서더크”
- Latin: “Opus Australe”
- Latin: “Southwark”
- Latin: “Sudoverca”
- Latin: “Sudwercha”
- Latin: “Suthweorca”
- Lithuanian: “Sadarkas”
- Lithuanian: “Soutvorkas”
- Luxembourgish: “Southwark”
- Macedonian: “Садарк”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Southwark”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Southwark”
- Norwegian: “Southwark”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Suðweorc”
- Persian: “ساتارک”
- Polish: “Southwark”
- Portuguese: “Southwark”
- Romanian: “Southwark”
- Russian: “Саутварк”
- Russian: “Саутуарк”
- Scots: “Southwark”
- Slovenian: “Southwark”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساتارک”
- Spanish: “Borough”
- Spanish: “distrito de Southwark”
- Spanish: “distrito Southwark”
- Spanish: “Southwark”
- Swedish: “Southwark”
- Tamil: “சௌதவார்க்”
- Telugu: “సౌత్ వార్క్”
- Turkish: “Southwark”
- Ukrainian: “Саутварк”
- Ukrainian: “Саутерк”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ ہوارک”
- Urdu: “سدرک”
- Welsh: “Southwark”
- “Southwark”
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