Bristol
Bristol is a city in the West Country of England. Famous for its maritime history it also offers a great and diverse range of attractions, hotels, bars and events.Places of Interest
Highlights include SS Great Britain and Ashton Gate.
SS Great Britain
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. The largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853, she was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City.Ashton Gate
Stadium
Ashton Gate is a multi-use stadium in Ashton Gate, Bristol, England, and is the home of the Bristol Bears rugby team and the Bristol City football team.
Bristol Cathedral
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abbots Leigh and Long Ashton.
Abbots Leigh
Abbots Leigh is a small village just outside of Bristol along the A369 towards the M5 motorway.Long Ashton
Long Ashton is a dormitory town 5 km south west of Bristol in Somerset, England. It is known for its bio science research centre Fenswood Farm, known by the locals as The Farm.Bristol
- Also known as: “City of Bristol”
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.45° or 51° 27′ north
Longitude
-2.6° or 2° 36′ west
Population
494,000
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Abbreviation
“BST”
Open location code
9C3VCCX2+X2
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Satellite Map
Discover Bristol from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Bristol” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريستول”
- Aragonese: “Bristón”
- Armenian: “Բրիստոլ”
- Belarusian: “Горад Брысталь”
- Bulgarian: “Бристъл”
- Chinese: “布里斯托尔”
- Esperanto: “Bristolo”
- Georgian: “ბრისტოლი”
- Greek: “Μπρίστολ”
- Hebrew: “בריסטול”
- Hindi: “ब्रिस्टल”
- Irish: “Briostó”
- Japanese: “ブリストル”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಸ್ಟಲ್”
- Korean: “브리스틀”
- Latin: “Bristolium”
- Latvian: “Bristole”
- Lithuanian: “Bristolis”
- Macedonian: “Бристол”
- Marathi: “ब्रिस्टल”
- Mazanderani: “بریستول”
- Narom: “Bristo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bristol”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bristol”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bricgstōw”
- Ossetian: “Бристоль”
- Panjabi: “ਬਰਿਸਟਲ”
- Persian: “بریستول”
- Russian: “Бристоль”
- Serbian: “Бристол”
- Sicilian: “Bristullu”
- Spanish: “Brístol”
- Tamil: “பிரிஸ்டல்”
- Thai: “บริสตอล”
- Ukrainian: “Бристоль”
- Welsh: “Bryste”
- Western Panjabi: “برسٹل نگر”
- Yiddish: “בריסטאל”
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