Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town on , , on the peninsula in the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, across the River Mersey from .
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  • Type: Town with 325,000 residents
  • Description: town in Merseyside, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Биркенгед”, “برکن هد”, “버켄헤드”, “버킨헤드”, “バークンヘッド”, “伯肯赫德”, and “伯肯赫特”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Prenton Park and Birkenhead Central railway station.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in the area of , Birkenhead, , England.

Railway station
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Birkenhead Central is a railway station serving the town of Birkenhead, in , .

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Liverpool Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the city centre of , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Liverpool and Wallasey.

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is on the peninsula in .

Birkenhead

Latitude
53.3895° or 53° 23′ 22″ north
Longitude
-3.0248° or 3° 1′ 29″ west
Population
325,000
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB BRK
Open location code
9C5R9XQG+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26703037
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655613
Wiki­data ID
Q746718
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Xhosa—“Birkenhead” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيركنهيد”
  • Azerbaijani: “Berkenhed”
  • Basque: “Birkenhead”
  • Belarusian: “Бэркенгэд”
  • Belarusian: “Бэркенхэд”
  • Bengali: “বিরকেনহেড”
  • Breton: “Birkenhead”
  • Catalan: “Birkenhead”
  • Cebuano: “Birkenhead”
  • Chinese: “伯肯黑德”
  • Czech: “Birkenhead”
  • Danish: “Birkenhead”
  • Dutch: “Birkenhead”
  • Esperanto: “Birkenhead”
  • Estonian: “Birkenhead”
  • Faroese: “Birkenhead”
  • Finnish: “Birkenhead”
  • French: “Birkenhead”
  • Georgian: “ბერკენჰედი”
  • German: “Birkenhead”
  • Greek: “Μπίρκενχεντ”
  • Gujarati: “બર્કેનહેડ”
  • Hebrew: “בירקנהד”
  • Icelandic: “Birkenhead”
  • Irish: “Birkenhead”
  • Italian: “Birkenhead”
  • Japanese: “バーケンヘッド”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಕೆನ್ಹೆಡ್”
  • Korean: “버컨헤드”
  • Korean: “비컨헤드”
  • Ladin: “Birkenhead”
  • Latvian: “Bērkenheda”
  • Lithuanian: “Berkenhedas”
  • Livvi: “Penbedw”
  • Luxembourgish: “Birkenhead”
  • Macedonian: “Беркенхед”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രിക്കൻഹെഡ്”
  • Manx: “Kione Beih”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birkenhead”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birkenhead”
  • Norwegian: “Birkenhead”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beorcenheafod”
  • Persian: “برکن‌هد”
  • Polish: “Birkenhead”
  • Portuguese: “Birkenhead”
  • Romanian: “Birkenhead”
  • Russian: “Беркенхед”
  • Russian: “Биркенхед”
  • Scots: “Birkenhead”
  • Serbian: “Berkenhed”
  • Serbian: “Беркенхед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Birkenhead”
  • Silesian: “Birkenhead”
  • Slovak: “Birkenhead”
  • Slovenian: “Birkenhead”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برکن‌هد”
  • Spanish: “Birkenhead”
  • Swedish: “Birkenhead”
  • Tamil: “பிறகென்ஹெஞ்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Бөркенһед”
  • Telugu: “బిర్కెన్హెడ్”
  • Thai: “เบอร์เคนเฮด”
  • Turkish: “Birkenhead”
  • Ukrainian: “Беркенгед”
  • Urdu: “برکن ہیڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Birkenhead”
  • Venetian: “Birkenhead”
  • Volapük: “Birkenhead”
  • Welsh: “Penbedw”
  • Xhosa: “Birkenhead”
  • “Birkenhead”

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