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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Thursday: 9:30 AM—8:00 PM
    Saturday: 9:30 AM—5:00 PM
    Sunday: 11:00 AM—5:00 PM
    Friday: 9:30 AM—6:00 PM
  • Type: Library
  • Description: national library of the United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “B.L.”, “BL”, “New British Library”, “The British Library”, and “The British Museum Library”
  • Address: 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include London St Pancras International and King’s Cross Railway Station.

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is a major international rail interchange and shopping destination in . It is the British capital's only international station, with Eurostar services connecting the city with destinations in mainland .

Railway station
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King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the , on the edge of . is situated 1,200 feet northeast of British Library.

Railway station
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is a major central London railway terminus and managed by Network Rail in the . is situated 1,500 feet west of British Library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include King’s Cross and St Pancras.

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King's Cross is a district in the London boroughs of and , on either side of Euston Road in , England, 1.5 miles north of , bordered by to the north, to the southeast, Angel to the east, and to the south, Euston to the west and to the northwest.

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is a district in . It was originally a medieval ancient parish and subsequently became a metropolitan borough. The metropolitan borough then merged with neighbouring boroughs and the area now forms around half of the modern .

Neighborhood
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The , also known as the Ampthill Estate, is a housing estate in the in London, England. The estate is located in the Somers Town district, on the south side of Harrington Square, east side of Hampstead Road, and west side of Eversholt Street.

British Library

Latitude
51.53° or 51° 31′ 48″ north
Longitude
-0.12771° or 0° 7′ 40″ west
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
Levels
5
Open location code
9C3XGVJC+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4680891
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Geo­Names ID
6944331
Wiki­data ID
Q23308
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“British Library” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “British Library”
  • Afrikaans: “British Library”
  • Arabic: “المكتبة البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “المكتبه البريطانيه”
  • Arabic: “مكتبة بريطانية”
  • Aragonese: “British Library”
  • Armenian: “Բրիտանական գրադարան”
  • Arpitan: “British Library”
  • Asturian: “British Library”
  • Asturian: “The British Library”
  • Aymara: “British Library”
  • Azerbaijani: “Britaniya Milli Kitabxanası”
  • Bambara: “British Library”
  • Bashkir: “Британия китапханаһы”
  • Basque: “British Library”
  • Bavarian: “British Library”
  • Belarusian: “Брытанская бібліятэка”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিটিশ গ্রন্থাগার”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিটিশ লাইব্রেরি”
  • Bislama: “British Library”
  • Bosnian: “Britanska biblioteka”
  • Breton: “British Library”
  • Bulgarian: “Британска библиотека”
  • Bulgarian: “Британската библиотека”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Britànica”
  • Catalan: “British Library”
  • Cebuano: “British Library”
  • Central Bikol: “British Library”
  • Chamorro: “British Library”
  • Cheyenne: “British Library”
  • Chinese: “不列顛圖書館”
  • Chinese: “不列颠图书馆”
  • Chinese: “大英图书馆”
  • Chinese: “大英圖書館”
  • Chinese: “英国国家图书馆”
  • Chinese: “英國國家圖書館”
  • Corsican: “British Library”
  • Croatian: “Britanska knjižnica”
  • Czech: “Britská knihovna”
  • Danish: “British Library”
  • Dimli (individual language): “British Library”
  • Dutch: “British Library”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المكتبه البريطانيه”
  • Esperanto: “BL”
  • Esperanto: “Brita Biblioteko”
  • Estonian: “Briti Raamatukogu”
  • Estonian: “British Library”
  • Ewe: “British Library”
  • Extremaduran: “British Library”
  • Finnish: “British Library”
  • French: “British Library”
  • Friulian: “British Library”
  • Fulah: “British Library”
  • Galician: “British Library”
  • Georgian: “ბრიტანეთის ბიბლიოთეკა”
  • German: “BL”
  • German: “Britische Nationalbibliothek”
  • German: “British Library”
  • Greek: “Βρετανική Βιβλιοθήκη”
  • Gujarati: “british library”
  • Hebrew: “הספרייה הבריטית”
  • Hindi: “ब्रिटिश पुस्तकालय”
  • Hungarian: “British Library”
  • Icelandic: “Þjóðbókasafn Bretlands”
  • Igbo: “Óbá akwukwo goomenti etiti Britain”
  • Igbo: “Oba akwukwo”
  • Indonesian: “Perpustakaan Britania”
  • Irish: “An Leabharlann Bhriotanach”
  • Irish: “An Leabharlann Briotanach”
  • Irish: “British Library”
  • Irish: “Leabharlann Briotanach”
  • Italian: “British Library”
  • Japanese: “ブリティッシュ・ライブラリー”
  • Japanese: “大英図書館”
  • Japanese: “英国図書館”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಟೀಷ್ ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Британдық кітапхана”
  • Korean: “대영 도서관”
  • Korean: “대영도서관”
  • Kurdish: “Pirtûkxaneya Brîtanyayê”
  • Latin: “Bibliotheca Britannica”
  • Latvian: “Britu bibliotēka”
  • Lithuanian: “Britų biblioteka”
  • Low German: “British Library”
  • Lower Sorbian: “British Library”
  • Macedonian: “Британска библиотека”
  • Malay: “Perpustakaan British”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് ലൈബ്രറി”
  • Mongolian: “Британийн номын сан”
  • Nepali: “ब्रिटिस पुस्तकालय”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “British Library”
  • Norwegian: “British Library”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “British Library”
  • Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਿਟਿਸ਼ ਲਾਇਬਰੇਰੀ”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه بریتانیا”
  • Polish: “Biblioteka Brytyjska”
  • Polish: “BL”
  • Polish: “British Library”
  • Portuguese: “Biblioteca Britânica”
  • Portuguese: “British Library”
  • Pushto: “برېتانوي کتابتون”
  • Pushto: “برېتانيايي کتابتون”
  • Romanian: “Biblioteca Britanică”
  • Romanian: “BL”
  • Russian: “Британская библиотека”
  • Scots: “Breetish Leebrary”
  • Scots: “British Librar”
  • Serbian: “Britanska biblioteka”
  • Serbian: “Britanskа biblioteka”
  • Serbian: “Британска библиотека”
  • Slovak: “British Library”
  • Slovenian: “Britanska knjižnica”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Británica”
  • Spanish: “British Library”
  • Spanish: “The British Library”
  • Swedish: “British Library”
  • Swiss German: “British Library”
  • Tahitian: “British Library”
  • Tajik: “Китобхонаи Британия”
  • Tajik: “Китобхонаи Бритониё”
  • Tamil: “பிரித்தானிய நூலகம்”
  • Tatar: “Британ китапханәсе”
  • Thai: “หอสมุดบริติช”
  • Tosk Albanian: “British Library”
  • Turkish: “Britanya Kütüphanesi”
  • Turkish: “British Library”
  • Ukrainian: “Бібліотека Британіка”
  • Ukrainian: “Британська бібліотека”
  • Ukrainian: “Британська Бібліотека”
  • Urdu: “برٹش لائبریری”
  • Urdu: “برطانوی کتب خانہ”
  • Uzbek: “Britaniya kutubxonasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Thư viện Anh”
  • Vietnamese: “Thư viện Vương quốc Liên hiệp Anh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sulod-Barasahan Britanika”
  • Welsh: “Llyfrgell Brydeinig”
  • Welsh: “y Llyfrgell Brydeinig”
  • Wu Chinese: “大英图书馆”
  • Yue Chinese: “大英圖書館”

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