Greenwich

Greenwich is an affluent area in south-east London, England, within the and the ceremonial county of , 5.5 miles east-south-east of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark.

Museum
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The is a maritime museum in Greenwich, . It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.

Museum
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is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.

Museum
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The , Greenwich is an situated on a hill in in south east London, overlooking the to the north.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burrells Wharf and Cubitt Town.

Neighborhood
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is a riverside residential estate, owned by its leaseholders, in , . It is situated on the and the north bank of the .

Quarter
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is a district on the eastern side of the in , England. This part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in the 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London, after whom it is named.

Suburb
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is an area on the south bank of the in southeast London, in the and . It is named after a ford of the .

Greenwich

Latitude
51.48208° or 51° 28′ 56″ north
Longitude
-0.00454° or 0° 0′ 16″ west
Population
285,000
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GNW
Open location code
9C3XFXJW+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27365302
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647937
Wiki­data ID
Q179385
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Greenwich” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Greenwich”
  • Arabic: “جرنتش”
  • Arabic: “جرينتش”
  • Arabic: “جرينتيش”
  • Arabic: “جرينيتش”
  • Arabic: “غرينتش”
  • Arabic: “غرينتيش”
  • Arabic: “كرينيتش”
  • Armenian: “Գրինվիչ”
  • Asturian: “Greenwich”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qriniç”
  • Basque: “Greenwich”
  • Belarusian: “Грынвіч (Лондан)”
  • Belarusian: “Грынвіч”
  • Belarusian: “Грынўіч”
  • Bengali: “গ্রিনিচ”
  • Bosnian: “Greenwich”
  • Bulgarian: “Гринуич”
  • Catalan: “Greenwich”
  • Central Kurdish: “گرێنچ”
  • Chinese: “格林威治”
  • Chinese: “格林尼治”
  • Croatian: “Greenwich”
  • Czech: “Greenwich”
  • Danish: “Greenwich”
  • Dutch: “Greenwich (Londen)”
  • Dutch: “Greenwich”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرينيتش”
  • Esperanto: “Greenwich”
  • Esperanto: “Grenviĉo”
  • Estonian: “Greenwich”
  • Finnish: “Greenwich”
  • French: “Greenwich”
  • Galician: “Greenwich”
  • Georgian: “გრინვიჩი”
  • German: “Greenwich”
  • Greek: “Γκρίνουιτς”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્રીનવિચ”
  • Hebrew: “גריניץ‘”
  • Hebrew: “גריניץ’”
  • Hebrew: “גרניץ‘”
  • Hindi: “ग्रीनिच”
  • Hindi: “ग्रेनिच”
  • Hindi: “ग्रेनिश”
  • Hungarian: “Greenwich”
  • Icelandic: “Greenwich”
  • Ido: “Greenwich, London”
  • Ido: “Greenwich”
  • Indonesian: “Greenwich”
  • Irish: “Buirg Londan Greenwich”
  • Italian: “Greenwich”
  • Japanese: “グリニッジ”
  • Japanese: “グリニッチ”
  • Javanese: “Greenwich”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರೀನ್ವಿಚ್”
  • Korean: “그리니치”
  • Korean: “그린니치”
  • Korean: “그린위치”
  • Ladin: “Greenwich”
  • Latin: “Greenwich”
  • Latin: “Grenovicum”
  • Latvian: “Griniča”
  • Latvian: “Grīniča”
  • Latvian: “Grīnviča”
  • Lithuanian: “Greenwich”
  • Lithuanian: “Grinidžas”
  • Lithuanian: “Grinvičas”
  • Lithuanian: “Grinvičius”
  • Luxembourgish: “Greenwich”
  • Macedonian: “Гринич”
  • Malagasy: “Greenwich”
  • Malay: “Greenwich”
  • Manx: “Greenwich”
  • Mongolian: “Гринвич”
  • Newari: “ग्रेनिच”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Greenwich”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Greenwich”
  • Norwegian: “Greenwich”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grenewic”
  • Ossetian: “Гринвич”
  • Persian: “گرینیچ”
  • Polish: “Greenwich”
  • Portuguese: “Borough de Greenwich”
  • Portuguese: “Greenwich Marítima”
  • Portuguese: “Greenwich”
  • Quechua: “Greenwich”
  • Romanian: “Greenwich”
  • Russian: “Гринвич”
  • Scots: “Greenwich”
  • Serbian: “Grinič”
  • Serbian: “Гринич”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Greenwich”
  • Sicilian: “Greenwich”
  • Slovak: “Greenwich”
  • Slovenian: “Greenwich”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قرینویچ”
  • Spanish: “Barrio de Greenwich”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Greenwich”
  • Spanish: “Greenwich Maritimo”
  • Spanish: “Greenwich Marítimo”
  • Spanish: “Greenwich”
  • Swedish: “Greenwich”
  • Tagalog: “Greenwich”
  • Tajik: “Гринвич (ноҳияи таърихӣ)”
  • Tajik: “Гринвич”
  • Tamil: “கிரீன்விச்”
  • Tamil: “கிரேனிச்”
  • Tamil: “கிரேனிச்சு”
  • Telugu: “గ్రీన్ విచ్ రేఖ”
  • Telugu: “గ్రీన్‌విచ్”
  • Thai: “กรินิช”
  • Thai: “กรีนิช”
  • Thai: “เกรนิช”
  • Turkish: “Greenweech”
  • Turkish: “Greenwich”
  • Ukrainian: “Гринвіч”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґринвіч”
  • Ukrainian: “Грінвіч”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґрінвіч”
  • Urdu: “گرینچ”
  • Uzbek: “Greenwich”
  • Uzbek: “Grinuich”
  • Uzbek: “Grinvich”
  • Vietnamese: “Greenwich”
  • Welsh: “Greenwich”
  • Western Frisian: “Greenwich”
  • Wu Chinese: “格林尼治”
  • Wu Chinese: “绿威志”
  • Yue Chinese: “格林威治”
  • Yue Chinese: “格林尼治”
  • “Greenwich”

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Localities in the Area

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