Kensington
Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, centred around 2.9 miles west of Charing Cross. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, which runs east–west.
Photo: Yaanch, Public domain.- Type: Suburb with 64,700 residents
- Description: district within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London
- Also known as: “Kensington i Chelsea”
- Neighbors: Notting Hill-North Kensington
Places of Interest
Highlights: Design Museum and Leighton House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Earls Court and West Kensington.
Earls Court
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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
51.499° or 51° 29′ 56″ north
Longitude
-0.19912° or 0° 11′ 57″ west
Population
64,700
Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)
Open location code
9C3XFRX2+H9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kensington” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kensington”
- Arabic: “كنزينغتون”
- Armenian: “Քենսինգթոն”
- Asturian: “Kensington”
- Azerbaijani: “Kensinqton”
- Basque: “Kensington”
- Bavarian: “Kensington”
- Belarusian: “Кенсінгтан”
- Belarusian: “Кенсінгтон”
- Belarusian: “Кенсынгтан”
- Bulgarian: “Кенсингтън”
- Catalan: “Kensington”
- Chinese: “肯辛頓”
- Chinese: “肯辛頓特”
- Chinese: “肯辛顿”
- Chinese: “肯辛顿特”
- Czech: “Kensington”
- Danish: “Kensington”
- Dutch: “Kensington”
- Esperanto: “Kensington”
- Finnish: “Kensington”
- French: “Kensington”
- Galician: “Kensington”
- Georgian: “კენსინგტონი”
- German: “Kensington”
- Greek: “Κένσινγκτον”
- Hebrew: “קנזינגטון”
- Hindi: “केंसिंग्टन”
- Hungarian: “Kensington”
- Indonesian: “Kensington”
- Irish: “Kensington”
- Italian: “Kensington”
- Japanese: “ケンジントン”
- Kashmiri: “کینسِنٛگٹن”
- Korean: “켄징턴”
- Latin: “Kensingtonia”
- Luxembourgish: “Kensington”
- Macedonian: “Кензинтгон”
- Malagasy: “Kensington”
- Malay: “Kensington”
- Maltese: “Kensington”
- Moksha: “Кэнсингтон”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kensington”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kensington”
- Norwegian: “Kensington”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kensington”
- Persian: “کنزینگتون”
- Polish: “Kensington”
- Portuguese: “Kensington”
- Romanian: “Kensington”
- Russian: “Кенсингтон”
- Scots: “Kensington”
- Slovak: “Kensington”
- Slovenian: “Kensington”
- South Azerbaijani: “کنزینقتون”
- Spanish: “Kensington”
- Swedish: “Kensington, London”
- Swedish: “Kensington”
- Tajik: “Кенсингтон”
- Tatar: “Кенсиңтон”
- Turkish: “Kensington”
- Ukrainian: “Кенсінгтон”
- Urdu: “کنزنگٹن”
- Urdu: “کینزنگٹن”
- Vietnamese: “Kensington”
- Welsh: “Kensington”
- Western Frisian: “Kensington”
- Yiddish: “קענזינגטאן”
- Yue Chinese: “肯星頓”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: The Phillimore Estate and Somerset Square.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Odeon Kensington and Core Collective.
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