Belfast
Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. Most of it historically lay in County Antrim west of the River Lagan, with about a third on the east bank in County Down, but it's always been governed as a separate metropolis, with a population in 2024 of about 671,000.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- City with 333,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 23 feet (7 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code BFS
- Description: capital city of Northern Ireland
- Also known as“Béal Feirste”“Belfast City”“Belfast, Northern Ireland”
Photo: Niall1990, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights include Windsor Park and Belfast City Hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Titanic Quarter and New Lodge.
Belfast
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Latitude
54.5964° or 54° 35′ 47″ north
Longitude
-5.9302° or 5° 55′ 49″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Belfast” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Belfast”
- Albanian: “Belfast”
- Amharic: “ቤልፋስት”
- Arabic: “بلفاست”
- Aragonese: “Béal Feirste”
- Armenian: “Բելֆասթ”
- Armenian: “Բելֆաստ”
- Asturian: “Belfast”
- Azerbaijani: “Belfast”
- Balinese: “Belfast”
- Basque: “Béal Feirste”
- Basque: “Belfast”
- Belarusian: “Белфаст”
- Belarusian: “Бэлфаст”
- Bengali: “বেলফাস্ট”
- Betawi: “Bèlpas”
- Bhojpuri: “बेलफास्ट”
- Bosnian: “Belfast”
- Breton: “Béal Feirste”
- Bulgarian: “Белфаст”
- Burmese: “ဗဲလဖတ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Belfast”
- Cebuano: “Belfast”
- Central Kurdish: “بێڵفێست”
- Chinese: “貝爾法斯特”
- Chinese: “贝尔法斯特”
- Chinese: “贝法”
- Chuvash: “Белфаст”
- Croatian: “Belfast”
- Czech: “Belfast”
- Danish: “Belfast”
- Dimli (individual language): “Belfast”
- Dutch: “Belfast”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلفاست”
- Esperanto: “Belfasto”
- Estonian: “Belfast”
- Extremaduran: “Belfast”
- Faroese: “Belfast”
- Finnish: “Belfast”
- French: “Belfast, Irlande du Nord”
- French: “Belfast”
- Galician: “Béal Feirste”
- Galician: “Belfast”
- Georgian: “ბელფასტი”
- German: “Belfast”
- Greek: “Μπέλφαστ”
- Guarani: “Belfast”
- Gujarati: “બેલફાસ્ટ”
- Haitian: “Bèlfast”
- Hebrew: “בלפאסט”
- Hebrew: “בלפסט”
- Hindi: “बेलफ़ास्ट”
- Hungarian: “Béal Feirste”
- Hungarian: “Belfast”
- Iban: “Belfast”
- Icelandic: “Belfast”
- Ido: “Belfast”
- Indonesian: “Belfast”
- Interlingua: “Belfast”
- Interlingue: “Belfast”
- Irish: “Béal Feirste”
- Italian: “Belfast”
- Japanese: “ベルファスト”
- Japanese: “伯法斯督”
- Javanese: “Belfast”
- Jèrriais: “Belfast”
- Kabyle: “Belfast”
- Kalaallisut: “Belfast”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಲ್ ಫಾಸ್ಟ್”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಲ್ಫಾಸ್ಟ್”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಲ್ಫಾಸ್ಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Белфаст”
- Kirghiz: “Белфаст”
- Komering: “Belfast”
- Korean: “밸파스트”
- Korean: “벨파스트”
- Kurdish: “Belfast”
- Latin: “Belfastum”
- Latvian: “Belfāsta”
- Ligurian: “Belfast”
- Limburgan: “Belfast”
- Lithuanian: “Belfastas”
- Lombard: “Belfast”
- Low German: “Belfast”
- Luxembourgish: “Belfast”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Belfast”
- Macedonian: “Белфаст”
- Malay: “Belfast”
- Malayalam: “ബെൽഫാസ്റ്റ്”
- Maltese: “Belfast”
- Manipuri: “ꯕꯦꯜꯐꯥꯁ꯭ꯠ”
- Manx: “Beeal Feirshtey”
- Marathi: “बेलफास्ट”
- Mazanderani: “بلفاست”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Belfast”
- Mongolian: “Белфаст”
- Mongolian: “Бельфаст”
- Northern Frisian: “Belfast (Nuurdirlun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Belfast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belfast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belfast”
- Norwegian: “Belfast”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Béal Feirste”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Belfast”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bælfāst”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bilfāst on Norðīrum”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bilfāst”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bilfēast”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bilford”
- Ossetian: “Белфаст”
- Persian: “بلفاست”
- Picard: “Belfast”
- Piemontese: “Belfast”
- Polish: “Belfast”
- Portuguese: “Béal Feirste”
- Portuguese: “Belfast”
- Pushto: “بلفاست”
- Quechua: “Belfast”
- Romanian: “Belfast”
- Russia Buriat: “Белфаст”
- Russian: “Белфаст”
- Sardinian: “Belfast”
- Scots: “Belfast”
- Scots: “Bilfaust”
- Scots: “Bilfawst”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beul Feirste”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beul-Feirste”
- Serbian: “Белфаст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Belfast”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပႄးၾၢတ်ႉၸ်”
- Sicilian: “Belfast”
- Silesian: “Belfast”
- Sindhi: “بيلفاسٽ”
- Sinhala: “බෙල්ෆාස්ට්”
- Slovak: “Belfast”
- Slovenian: “Belfast”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلفاست”
- Spanish: “Belfast”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵉⵍⴼⴰⵙⵜ”
- Swahili: “Belfast”
- Swedish: “Belfast”
- Tagalog: “Belfast”
- Tagalog: “Belpas”
- Tajik: “Белфаст”
- Talysh: “Belfast”
- Tamil: “பெல்பாஸ்ட்”
- Tatar: “Белфаст”
- Telugu: “బెల్ ఫాస్ట్”
- Telugu: “బెల్ఫాస్ట్”
- Thai: “เบลฟัสต์”
- Thai: “เบลฟาสต์”
- Turkish: “Belfast”
- Udmurt: “Белфаст”
- Uighur: “Bélfast”
- Ukrainian: “Белфаст”
- Upper Sorbian: “Belfast”
- Urdu: “بیلفاسٹ”
- Uzbek: “Belfast”
- Venetian: “Béal Feirste”
- Venetian: “Belfast”
- Vietnamese: “Belfast”
- Vlaams: “Belfast”
- Vlax Romani: “Belfast”
- Waray (Philippines): “Belfast”
- Welsh: “Belffast”
- Western Armenian: “Պելֆասթ”
- Western Frisian: “Belfast”
- Western Panjabi: “بیلفاسٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “贝尔法斯特”
- Yiddish: “בעלפאסט”
- Yoruba: “Belfast”
- Yue Chinese: “貝爾法斯特”
- Zeeuws: “Belfast”
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