South Kensington

South Kensington is a district at the West End of in the . Historically it settled on part of the scattered village of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Natural History Museum and Science Museum.

Museum
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The in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the .

Museum
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The is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 2,817,852 visitors in 2025.

Theater building
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The is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, , England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brompton and Earls Court.

Suburb
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, sometimes called Old , is an area in the in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of in the county of .

Suburb
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Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the in , bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, to the south and to the northeast.

Neighborhood
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, also known as the Sutton Estate, are a series of 14 residential buildings in , United Kingdom.

South Kensington

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
node 27396436
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2637395
Wiki­data ID
Q1045096
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Satellite Map

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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: “Lõuna-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”
  • Japanese: “サウスケンジントン”
  • Korean: “사우스 켄싱턴”
  • Korean: “사우스 켄싱톤”
  • Korean: “사우스 켄싱튼”
  • Korean: “사우스켄싱턴”
  • Korean: “사우스켄싱톤”
  • Korean: “사우스켄싱튼”
  • 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: “Альбертополь”
  • 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: “Альбертополь”
  • 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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