Bangor

Bangor is a small coastal city in in . It is a picturesque city offering views over the Menai Straits, and serves as a convenient base for visiting the nearby .
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  • Type: City with 18,000 residents
  • Description: city in Gwynedd, Wales
  • Also known as: “Bangor, Gwynedd”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Menai Bridge and Bangor Cathedral.

Bridge
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The Menai Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the between the island of and the mainland of . Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was one of the world's first major suspension bridges, and second such bridge designed to carry vehicular traffic, after the Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed.

Church
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is the cathedral church of Bangor, , Wales. It is dedicated to its founder, Saint Deiniol. The site of the present building of has been in use as a place of Christian worship since the sixth century.

Railway station
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the city of Bangor in , North West Wales. it is operated by Transport for Wales. The station, which is 24+3⁄4 miles east of , is the last mainland station on the North Wales Coast line between and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Menai Bridge and Beaumaris.

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is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in north-west . It overlooks the and lies by the , built in 1826 by Thomas Telford, just over the water from Bangor.

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is a town in east in . 's shore borders the Menai Strait separating Anglesey from the British mainland. Its population is somewhere around 2000 people.

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or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, often shortened to Llanfairpwll and sometimes to Llanfair PG, is a village and community on the Isle of Anglesey, .

Bangor

Latitude
53.2277° or 53° 13′ 40″ north
Longitude
-4.1269° or 4° 7′ 37″ west
Population
18,000
Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BNG
Open location code
9C5Q6VHF+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21413563
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2656397
Wiki­data ID
Q234178
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Bangor” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بانجور”
  • Arabic: “بانغور”
  • Armenian: “Բանգոր”
  • Asturian: “Bangor”
  • Basque: “Bangor”
  • Belarusian: “Бангар”
  • Bengali: “ব্যানগোর”
  • Breton: “Bangor”
  • Bulgarian: “Бангор”
  • Catalan: “Bangor”
  • Cebuano: “Bangor”
  • Chinese: “Bangor”
  • Chinese: “班哥 (圭內斯)”
  • Chinese: “班戈”
  • Cornish: “Bangor”
  • Czech: “Bangor”
  • Danish: “Bangor”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bangor”
  • Dutch: “Bangor”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بانجور”
  • Esperanto: “Bangor”
  • Esperanto: “Bangoro”
  • Estonian: “Bangor”
  • Finnish: “Bangor”
  • French: “Bangor”
  • Galician: “Bangor, Gales”
  • Georgian: “ბანგორი”
  • German: “Bangor”
  • Greek: “Μπανγκόρ”
  • Greek: “Μπάνγκορ”
  • Gujarati: “બાન્ગોર”
  • Hebrew: “בנגור”
  • Hindi: “बंगोर”
  • Hungarian: “Bangor”
  • Icelandic: “Bangor”
  • Indonesian: “Bangor, Gwynedd”
  • Irish: “Bangor”
  • Italian: “Bangor”
  • Japanese: “バンガー”
  • Japanese: “パンゴア”
  • Kannada: “ಬಂಗೋರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾಂಗರ್”
  • Korean: “뱅고어”
  • Kurdish: “Bangor”
  • Latin: “Bangorium”
  • Latin: “Bonium”
  • Latin: “Bovium”
  • Latin: “Brannogenium”
  • Latvian: “Bangora”
  • Lithuanian: “Bangoras”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯪꯒꯣꯔ, ꯒ꯭ꯋꯤꯅꯦꯗ”
  • Marathi: “बॅंगोर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bangor”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bangor”
  • Norwegian: “Bangor”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bancorena burh”
  • Persian: “بنگور، ولز”
  • Persian: “بنگور”
  • Polish: “Bangor”
  • Portuguese: “Bangor”
  • Russian: “Бангор”
  • Scots: “Bangor, Gwynedd”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bangor”
  • Serbian: “Бангор”
  • Sinhala: “බැන්ගොර්”
  • Slovak: “Bangor”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنقور، ولز”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنقور”
  • Spanish: “Bangor”
  • Swedish: “Bangor”
  • Tagalog: “Bangor, Gwynedd”
  • Tamil: “பாங்கோர்”
  • Telugu: “బాంగర్”
  • Thai: “บังกอร์”
  • Turkish: “Bangor, Gwynedd”
  • Ukrainian: “Бангор”
  • Urdu: “بینگور، گوینڈ”
  • Urdu: “بینگور”
  • Vietnamese: “Bangor, Gwynedd”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bangor, Gwynedd”
  • Welsh: “Bangor Fawr yn Arfon”
  • Welsh: “Bangor”
  • Western Panjabi: “بینگور”
  • Yiddish: “באנגאר, גווינעד”
  • Yiddish: “באנגאר”
  • “Bangor”

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