Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace is a royal residence situated within in the in , England. It has served as a residence for the British royal family since the 17th century and is currently the official London…
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  • Type: Palace
  • Description: royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, London, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Nottingham House”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kensington Gardens and Royal Albert Hall.

Park
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, once part of the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are now among the Royal Parks of London and largely open to the public. The gardens are shared by the and the and sit immediately to the west of , in .

Theater building
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The is a concert hall on the northern edge of , , England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. is situated 3,000 feet southeast of Kensington Palace.

Museum
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The in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in , the others being the Science Museum and the . is situated 1 mile southeast of Kensington Palace.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Black Lion Gate and Bayswater.

Locality
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is a locality.

Suburb
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is an area in the . It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between to the south, to the north-east, and to the west.

Suburb
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is an area of in the , centred around 2.9 miles west of . The district's commercial heart is High Street, which runs east–west.

Kensington Palace

Latitude
51.50598° or 51° 30′ 22″ north
Longitude
-0.1878° or 0° 11′ 16″ west
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGR46+9V
Geo­Names ID
7627143
Wiki­data ID
Q207385
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kensington Palace” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kensington-paleis”
  • Arabic: “قصر كنسينغتون”
  • Armenian: “Քենսինգթոնյան պալատ”
  • Asturian: “Palaciu de Kensington”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kensinqton sarayı”
  • Basque: “Kensington jauregia”
  • Belarusian: “Кенсінгтанскі палац”
  • Belarusian: “Кенсінгтонскі палац”
  • Belarusian: “Кенсынгтанскі палац”
  • Bengali: “কেনসিংটন প্যালেস”
  • Bulgarian: “Дворец Кенсигтън”
  • Bulgarian: “Дворец Кенсингтън”
  • Bulgarian: “Кенсингтън”
  • Catalan: “Kensington Palace”
  • Catalan: “Palau de Kensington”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆشکی کێنسنگتۆن”
  • Chinese: “肯星頓宮”
  • Chinese: “肯辛頓宮”
  • Chinese: “肯辛顿宫”
  • Czech: “Kensingtonský palác”
  • Danish: “Kensington Palace”
  • Dutch: “Kensington House”
  • Dutch: “Kensington Palace”
  • Dutch: “Nottingham House”
  • Esperanto: “Palaco Kensington”
  • Estonian: “Kensingtoni palee”
  • Finnish: “Kensingtonin palatsi”
  • French: “Kensington Palace”
  • French: “palais de Kensington”
  • French: “Palais de Kensington”
  • Galician: “Palacio de Kensington”
  • German: “Kensington Palace”
  • German: “Kensington-Palast”
  • Greek: “ανάκτορο Κένσινγκτον”
  • Greek: “Παλάτι του Κένσινγκτον”
  • Hebrew: “ארמון קנזינגטון”
  • Hebrew: “ארמון קנסינגטון”
  • Hindi: “केन्सिंग्टन पैलस”
  • Hungarian: “Kensington-palota”
  • Indonesian: “Istana Kensington”
  • Irish: “Pálás Kensington”
  • Italian: “Kensington Palace”
  • Italian: “Palazzo di Kensington”
  • Japanese: “ケンジントン宮殿”
  • Korean: “켄싱턴 궁전”
  • Korean: “켄징턴 궁전”
  • Korean: “켄징턴궁”
  • Kurdish: “Seraya Kensingtonê”
  • Latvian: “Kensingtonas pils”
  • Macedonian: “Кензингтонска палата”
  • Macedonian: “Кенсингтонска палата”
  • Macedonian: “Кенсингтонски дворец”
  • Mongolian: “Кенсингтоны ордон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kensington Palace”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kensington Palace”
  • Norwegian: “Kensington Palace”
  • Persian: “کاخ کنزینگتون”
  • Persian: “کاخ کنسینگتون”
  • Polish: “Kensington Palace”
  • Polish: “Pałac Kensington”
  • Portuguese: “Kensington Palace”
  • Portuguese: “Palácio de Kensington”
  • Portuguese: “Palácio Kensington”
  • Romanian: “Palatul Kensington”
  • Russian: “Кенсингтонский дворец”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lùchairt Kensington”
  • Serbian: “Кенсингтонска палата”
  • Slovenian: “Kensington Palace”
  • Slovenian: “Kensingtonska palača”
  • Spanish: “Palacio de Kensington”
  • Swedish: “Kensington Palace”
  • Thai: “Kensington Palace”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังเคนซิงตัน”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังเค็นซิงตัน”
  • Thai: “วังเคนซิงตัน”
  • Thai: “วังเค็นซิงตัน”
  • Turkish: “Kensington Sarayı”
  • Ukrainian: “Кенсінгтонський палац”
  • Urdu: “کنسنگٹن محل”
  • Urdu: “کینزنگٹن محل”
  • Vietnamese: “Cung điện Kensington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palasyo Kensington”
  • Welsh: “Palas Kensington”
  • Western Armenian: “Քենսինկթըն պալատ”
  • Wu Chinese: “肯辛顿宫”
  • Yue Chinese: “肯星頓宮”

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