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Belfast

Belfast is the capital and largest city of . Most of it historically lay in west of the River Lagan, with about a third on the east bank in , but it's always been governed as a separate metropolis, with a population in 2020 of about 630,000.
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  • Type: City with 333,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Northern Ireland
  • Also known as: “Beal Feirste”, “Béal Feirste”, “Belfast City”, and “Belfast, Northern Ireland”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Windsor Park and SS Nomadic.

Stadium
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The National Football Stadium at , or the National Football Stadium, also known as is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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is a former tender of the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 at Belfast, that is now on display in Belfast's . She was built to transfer passengers and mail to and from the ocean liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

Pitch
is a football stadium in Belfast, , which has been home to Glentoran F.C. since 1892. In 1941, the stadium was severely damaged by aerial bombing during the Belfast blitz of World War II and was unusable until 1949.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Titanic Quarter and New Lodge.

Quarter
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in Belfast, , is a large-scale waterfront regeneration, comprising historic maritime landmarks, film studios, education facilities, apartments, a riverside entertainment district, and the world's largest Titanic-themed attraction centred on land in Belfast Harbour, known until 1995 as Queen's Island, and initially, Dargan's Island.

Suburb
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The is an urban, working class Catholic community in Belfast, Northern Ireland, immediately to the north of the . The landscape is dominated by several large tower blocks.

Quarter
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The in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a developing area of the city, roughly situated between Royal Avenue near where the Belfast Central Library building is, and the Dunbar Link in the .

Belfast

Latitude
54.5964° or 54° 35′ 47″ north
Longitude
-5.9302° or 5° 55′ 49″ west
Population
333,000
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
IATA airport code
BFS
United Nations Location Codes
IE BEF and GB BEL
Open location code
9C6PH3W9+HW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1418701024
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2655984
Wiki­data ID
Q10686
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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: “Belfast”
  • Chinese: “貝爾法斯特”
  • Chinese: “贝尔法斯特 / 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”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “Belfast”
  • Northern Frisian: “Belfast (Nuurdirlun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Belfast”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Belfast”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belfast”
  • Norwegian: “Belfast”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Béal Feirste”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Belfast”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “Belfast”
  • “बेलफास्ट”

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