South Kensington
South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton.- Type: Suburb
- Description: area in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and partly in the City of Westminster, London, England
- Also known as: “Lõuna-Kensington”, “Альбертополь”, “사우스 켄싱턴”, “사우스 켄싱톤”, “사우스 켄싱튼”, “사우스켄싱톤”, “사우스켄싱튼”, and “サウスケンジントン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Natural History Museum and Science Museum.
Science Museum
Museum
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
Royal Albert Hall
Theater building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brompton and Earls Court.
Brompton
Suburb
Earls Court
Suburb
South Kensington
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.49558° or 51° 29′ 44″ north
Longitude
-0.18314° or 0° 10′ 59″ west
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
Open location code
9C3XFRW8+6P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“South Kensington” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساوث كنزنغتون”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Կենսինգտոն”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Քենսինգտոն”
- Basque: “South Kensington”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвы Кенсінгтон”
- Catalan: “South Kensington”
- Chechen: “Къилба Кенсингтон”
- Chinese: “南肯辛頓”
- Chinese: “南肯辛顿”
- Czech: “South Kensington”
- Danish: “South Kensington”
- Dutch: “South Kensington”
- Esperanto: “South Kensington”
- Estonian: “South Kensington”
- Finnish: “South Kensington”
- French: “South Kensington”
- German: “South Kensington”
- Greek: “Νότιο Κένσινγκτον”
- Hebrew: “דרום קנזינגטון”
- Hungarian: “South Kensington”
- Indonesian: “South Kensington”
- Irish: “South Kensington”
- Italian: “South Kensington”
- Japanese: “サウス・ケンジントン”
- Korean: “사우스켄싱턴”
- Latin: “Kinsentona Meridiana”
- Luxembourgish: “South Kensington”
- Macedonian: “Јужен Кензингтон”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Kensington”
- Norwegian: “South Kensington”
- Persian: “کنزینگتون جنوبی”
- Polish: “South Kensington”
- Portuguese: “South Kensington”
- Russian: “Южный Кенсингтон”
- Scots: “South Kensington”
- Sinhala: “දකුණු කෙන්සින්ග්ටොන්”
- Slovenian: “South Kensington”
- South Azerbaijani: “کنزینقتون جنوبی”
- Spanish: “South Kensington”
- Swedish: “South Kensington”
- Turkish: “South Kensington”
- Ukrainian: “Південний Кенсінгтон”
- Urdu: “جنوبی کینزنگٹن”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Kensington”
- Welsh: “De Kensington”
- Yiddish: “דרום קענזינגטאן”
- Yue Chinese: “南肯辛頓”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hyde Park Gate and Queen’s Gate.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Melia London Kensington and Parish Church of St. Stephen.
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