Covent Garden

Covent Garden is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of , and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: district in London, England
  • Also known as: “Theatre District”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Leicester Square and London Eye.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Ferris wheel
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The , originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the of the in London. It is the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually.

Arts center
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The is a theatre in Covent Garden, . The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Bank and Holborn-Clerkenwell.

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The is on a sharp 90° bend of the Thames in central and one of the city's cultural centres. It is a small area but it contains many artistic and creative sites, as well as an eclectic range of other attractions, boutique shopping and trendy food and drink places.

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is a district in central that is in many ways a buffer zone between London's West End and the City of London financial district.

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This article is about three neighbourhoods of central : , St Pancras and Fitzrovia. is the hub of London's university district, is home to the British Museum and is next to the British Library.

Covent Garden

Latitude
51.51174° or 51° 30′ 42″ north
Longitude
-0.12268° or 0° 7′ 22″ west
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGV6G+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2290086954
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2652222
Wiki­data ID
Q55019
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Covent Garden” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوفنت غاردن”
  • Armenian: “Քովենթ Գարդեն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kovent-Qarden”
  • Basque: “Covent Garden”
  • Bulgarian: “Ковънт Гардън (квартал)”
  • Bulgarian: “Ковънт Гардън”
  • Catalan: “Covent Garden”
  • Chinese: “柯芬園”
  • Chinese: “科文特花园”
  • Chinese: “科文特花園”
  • Cornish: “Covent Garden”
  • Cornish: “Lowarth Covent”
  • Czech: “Covent Garden”
  • Danish: “Covent Garden”
  • Dutch: “Covent Garden”
  • Esperanto: “Covent Garden”
  • Estonian: “Covent Garden”
  • Finnish: “Covent Garden”
  • French: “Covent Garden”
  • Galician: “Covent Garden”
  • Georgian: “კოვენტ-გარდენი”
  • German: “Covent Garden”
  • Greek: “Κόβεντ Γκάρντεν”
  • Hebrew: “קובנט גארדן”
  • Hebrew: “קובנט גרדן”
  • Hindi: “कॉवंट गार्डन”
  • Hungarian: “Covent Garden”
  • Icelandic: “Covent Garden”
  • Indonesian: “Covent Garden”
  • Irish: “Covent Garden”
  • Italian: “Covent Garden”
  • Japanese: “コヴェント・ガーデン”
  • Korean: “코번트 가든”
  • Korean: “코번트가든”
  • Latin: “Conventuali Hortus”
  • Latin: “Covent Garden”
  • Macedonian: “Ковент Гарден”
  • Malay: “Covent Garden”
  • Marathi: “कोव्हेंट गार्डन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Covent Garden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Covent Garden”
  • Norwegian: “Covent Garden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Covent Garden”
  • Persian: “کاونت گاردن”
  • Polish: “Covent Garden”
  • Portuguese: “Covent Garden”
  • Russian: “Ковент-Гарден”
  • Scots: “Covent Garden”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Covent Garden”
  • Sicilian: “Covent Garden”
  • Slovak: “Covent Garden”
  • Slovenian: “Covent Garden”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاونت قاردن”
  • Spanish: “Barrio de Covent Garden”
  • Spanish: “Covent Garden”
  • Swedish: “Covent Garden”
  • Tagalog: “Covent Garden”
  • Thai: “คอเวินท์การ์เดิน”
  • Turkish: “Covent Garden”
  • Ukrainian: “Ковент-Гарден (квартал)”
  • Ukrainian: “Ковент-гарден”
  • Ukrainian: “Ковент-Гарден”
  • Urdu: “کوونٹ گارڈن”
  • Urdu: “کووینٹ گارڈن”
  • Vietnamese: “Covent Garden”
  • Welsh: “Covent Garden”

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