Red Square

Red Square is one of the oldest and largest squares in , Russia. It is in Moscow's historic centre, along the eastern walls of the Kremlin. It is the city's most prominent landmark, with famous buildings such as , , the State Historical Museum and the .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Spasskiye Gate and Tsar Bell.

City gate
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The Spasskaya Tower, also translated as the Saviour Tower, is the main tower on the eastern wall of the which overlooks Red Square. is situated 220 metres northwest of Red Square.

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The , also known as the Tsarsky Kolokol, Tsar Kolokol III, or Royal Bell, is a 6.14-metre-tall, 6.6-metre-diameter bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. is situated 350 metres west of Red Square.

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The is a large early modern period artillery piece on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. It is a monument of Russian artillery casting art, cast in bronze in 1586 in Moscow, by the Russian master bronze caster Andrey Chokhov. is situated 380 metres west of Red Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Central Moscow and Outskirts.

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Central Administrative Okrug, or Tsentralny Administrativny Okrug, is one of the twelve administrative okrugs of , . Population: 772,258 ; 741,967 ; 701,353 .

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The Moscow include areas from 's 3rd Ring to Moscow Ring Road.

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, also referred to as the Great Possad in the 16th and 17th centuries, is a cultural and historical area within the central part of Moscow in Russia, defined by the remnants of now almost entirely razed fortifications, narrow streets and very densely built cityscape.

Red Square

Latitude
55.75124° or 55° 45′ 5″ north
Longitude
37.62398° or 37° 37′ 26″ east
Elevation
151 metres (495 feet)
Wheelchair access
limited
Open location code
9G7VQJ2F+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1277331973
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­bus_stop
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­platform
Geo­Names ID
6295575
Wiki­data ID
Q41116
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Red Square” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rooi Plein”
  • Afrikaans: “Rooiplein”
  • Albanian: “Sheshi i Kuq”
  • Arabic: “الساحة الحمراء”
  • Arabic: “الميدان الأحمر”
  • Arabic: “الميدان الاحمر”
  • Arabic: “ساحة حمراء”
  • Arabic: “ميدان أحمر”
  • Armenian: “Կարմիր հրապարակ”
  • Asturian: “Plaza Roja”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qırmızı meydan”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡыҙыл майҙан”
  • Basque: “Plaza Gorria”
  • Belarusian: “Красная плошча”
  • Belarusian: “Чырвоная плошча”
  • Bengali: “রেড স্কয়ার”
  • Bhojpuri: “रेड स्क्वायर”
  • Bhojpuri: “लाल चौक, मास्को”
  • Bhojpuri: “लाल चौक”
  • Breton: “Leurgêr Ruz”
  • Breton: “Plasenn Ruz”
  • Bulgarian: “Червен площад”
  • Bulgarian: “Червения площад”
  • Catalan: “plaça Roja”
  • Catalan: “Plaça Roja”
  • Central Kurdish: “گۆڕەپانی سوور”
  • Chechen: “ЦIен майда”
  • Chechen: “ЦӀен майда”
  • Chinese: “紅場”
  • Chinese: “红场”
  • Church Slavic: “Красьнъ тръгъ”
  • Chuvash: “Хĕрлĕ лапам”
  • Croatian: “Crveni trg”
  • Czech: “Krasnaja ploščaď”
  • Czech: “Krasnoj Plóščadi”
  • Czech: “Krásnoj ploščadi”
  • Czech: “Rudé náměstí”
  • Danish: “Den Røde Plads”
  • Danish: “Røde Plads”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meydano Sûr”
  • Dutch: “Red Square”
  • Dutch: “Rode Plein”
  • Esperanto: “Ruĝa Placo”
  • Esperanto: “Красная площадь”
  • Estonian: “Punane väljak”
  • Estonian: “Punane Väljak”
  • Finnish: “Punainen tori”
  • French: “place Rouge”
  • French: “Place Rouge”
  • Galician: “Praza Vermella”
  • Georgian: “წითელი მოედანი”
  • German: “Der Rote Platz”
  • German: “Roter Platz”
  • Greek: “Κόκκινη Πλατεία”
  • Guarani: “Okarusu Pytã”
  • Guarani: “Tenda Pytã”
  • Hausa: “Red Square”
  • Hebrew: “הכיכר האדומה”
  • Hebrew: “הככר האדומה”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר האדומה”
  • Hindi: “रेड स्क्वायर”
  • Hungarian: “Vörös tér”
  • Icelandic: “Rauða torgið”
  • Ido: “Reda placo”
  • Indonesian: “Lapangan Merah”
  • Indonesian: “Red square”
  • Indonesian: “Red Square”
  • Irish: “An Chearnóg Dhearg”
  • Italian: “Piazza di San Basilio”
  • Italian: “piazza Rossa”
  • Italian: “Piazza Rossa”
  • Japanese: “赤の広場”
  • Javanese: “Lapangan Abrit”
  • Kazakh: “Қызыл алаң”
  • Kirghiz: “Кызыл аянт”
  • Kirghiz: “Кызыл Аянт”
  • Korean: “붉은 광장”
  • Korean: “붉은광장”
  • Kurdish: “Qada Sor”
  • Ladin: “piaz chécen”
  • Ladin: “plaza cöcena”
  • Ladin: “Plaza Cuecena”
  • Latin: “Area Rubra”
  • Latin: “Forum Pulchrum”
  • Latvian: “Krasnajas laukums”
  • Latvian: “Sarkanais laukums”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Plaza Roja”
  • Lithuanian: “Raudonoji aikštė”
  • Macedonian: “Црвен плоштад”
  • Malay: “Dataran Merah”
  • Malayalam: “ചുവപ്പ് ചത്വരം”
  • Marathi: “लाल चौक”
  • Mongolian: “Улаан талбай”
  • Nepali: “रेड स्क्वायर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den røde plass”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den raude plass”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den raude plassen i Moskva”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den raude plassen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den røde plass”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krasnaja plosjtsjad”
  • Norwegian: “Den røde plass”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Plaça Roja”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਲ ਚੌਕ”
  • Persian: “میدان سرخ”
  • Polish: “Plac Czerwony w Moskwie”
  • Polish: “Plac Czerwony”
  • Portuguese: “Praça Vermelha”
  • Romanian: “Piaţa Roşie din Moscova”
  • Romanian: “Piața Roșie din Moscova”
  • Romanian: “Piaţa Roşie”
  • Romanian: “Piața Roșie”
  • Russian: “Красная площадь Москвы”
  • Russian: “Красная площадь”
  • Russian: “Кра́сная пло́щадь”
  • Serbian: “Црвени трг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Crveni trg”
  • Slovak: “Červené námestie”
  • Slovenian: “Rdeči trg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیرمیزی مئیدان”
  • Spanish: “Plaza Roja de Moscu”
  • Spanish: “Plaza Roja de Moscú”
  • Spanish: “Plaza Roja”
  • Swedish: “Röda torget”
  • Tagalog: “Liwasang Pula”
  • Tamil: “செஞ்சதுக்கம்”
  • Tatar: “Кызыл мәйдан”
  • Thai: “จัตุรัสแดง”
  • Tibetan: “ཐང་ཆེན་དམར་པོ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቀይሕ ኣደባባይ”
  • Turkish: “Kızıl Meydan”
  • Turkish: “Lubyanka Meydanı”
  • Udmurt: “Горд площадь”
  • Uighur: “قىزىل مەيدان”
  • Ukrainian: “Красна площа”
  • Ukrainian: “Красний майдан”
  • Urdu: “سرخ چوک”
  • Uzbek: “Qizil maydon”
  • Venetian: “Piasa Rosa”
  • Veps: “Rusked torg”
  • Vietnamese: “Công trường Đỏ”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồng Trường”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng trường Đỏ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kwadrado nga Pula”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Plaza Pula”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pula nga Kwadrado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pula nga Plaza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Red Square”
  • Welsh: “Sgwâr Coch”
  • Western Frisian: “Reade Plein”
  • Western Panjabi: “سرخ چوک”
  • Wu Chinese: “红场”
  • Yue Chinese: “紅場”
  • “Чрвена плошча”
  • “रेड स्कवायर”

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