Charing Cross
Charing Cross is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet. Since the early 19th century, Charing Cross has been the notional "centre of London" and became the point from which distances from London are measured.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: area of London, England
- Neighbors: Covent Garden
Places of Interest
Highlights include Leicester Square and National Gallery.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
National Gallery
Art gallery
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The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.
London Charing Cross
Railway station
Photo: Joshua Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charing Cross railway station is a central London railway terminus between the Strand and Hungerford Bridge in the City of Westminster. It is the terminus of the Southeastern Main Lines to Dover via Ashford and Hastings via Tunbridge Wells.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Covent Garden and West End of London.
Covent Garden
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Covent Garden is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of London, and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.
West End of London
Locality
Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The West End of London is a district of Central London, England, in the London Boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster. It is west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops…
Chinatown
Suburb
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering Soho to its north and west, Theatreland to the south and east. The enclave currently occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street.
Charing Cross
- Categories: monument and area of London
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Charing Cross” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Charing Cross”
- Arabic: “تشارينغ كروس”
- Basque: “Charing Cross”
- Belarusian: “Чарынг-Крос”
- Catalan: “Charing Cross”
- Chinese: “查令十字”
- Chinese: “查灵十字”
- Czech: “Charing Cross”
- Danish: “Charing Cross”
- Dutch: “Charing Cross”
- Esperanto: “Charing Cross”
- Estonian: “Charing Cross”
- Finnish: “Charing Cross”
- French: “Charing Cross”
- Galician: “Charing Cross”
- German: “Charing Cross”
- Hebrew: “צ’רינג קרוס”
- Hebrew: “צרינג קרוס”
- Hungarian: “Charing Cross”
- Icelandic: “Charing Cross”
- Indonesian: “Charing Cross”
- Irish: “Charing Cross”
- Italian: “Charing Cross”
- Japanese: “チャリング・クロス”
- Japanese: “チャリングクロス”
- Korean: “채링 크로스”
- Korean: “채링크로스”
- Latin: “Crux Chariniana”
- Lithuanian: “Charing Cross”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Charing Cross”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Charing Cross”
- Norwegian: “Charing Cross”
- Persian: “چارینگ کراس”
- Persian: “چرینگ کراس”
- Polish: “Charing Cross”
- Portuguese: “Charing Cross”
- Russian: “Charing Cross”
- Russian: “Чаринг Кросс”
- Russian: “Чаринг-Кросс”
- Scots: “Charing Cross”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Charing Cross”
- Slovak: “Charing Cross”
- Slovenian: “Charing Cross”
- South Azerbaijani: “چرینق کراس”
- Spanish: “Charing Cross”
- Swedish: “Charing Cross”
- Thai: “ชาริงครอสส์”
- Turkish: “Charing Cross”
- Ukrainian: “Чарінг-кросс”
- Ukrainian: “Чарінг-Кросс”
- Urdu: “چیرنگ کراس”
- Vietnamese: “Charing Cross”
- Welsh: “Charing Cross”
- Western Frisian: “Charing Cross”
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Notable Places Nearby
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