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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort in on the northwest coast of England, bordering the Irish Sea. It's a traditional holiday resort with miles of sandy beach, the iconic Tower, and cheap and cheerful amenities for visitors.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bloomfield Road and Blackpool Tower.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which has been the home of Blackpool Football Club since 1901. It is the third stadium in the club's existence, the previous two being Raikes Hall Gardens and the Athletic Grounds.

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is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, , England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. When it opened, was the tallest man-made structure in the British Empire.

Railway station
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Blackpool North station is the main railway station serving the seaside resort of Blackpool in , England. It is the terminus of the main Blackpool branch line and is 17+1⁄2 miles northwest of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Poulton-le-Fylde and Cleveleys.

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is a town in in , dating back a thousand years as a small settlement but now grown into a dormitory town on the outskirts of Blackpool which is a few miles to the west.

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or Thornton-Cleveleys is a part of the Wyre local council area in , . It is 3 miles north of Blackpool, with which it has grown to merge along with the other Fylde Coast towns of Bispham, and .

Village
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is a village on the Fylde coast in the Borough of Blackpool in , England. is situated 2½ miles north of Blackpool.

Blackpool

Latitude
53.8179° or 53° 49′ 5″ north
Longitude
-3.051° or 3° 3′ 4″ west
Population
140,000
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
IATA airport code
BLK
Open location code
9C5RRW9X+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5527648921
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655459
Wiki­data ID
Q170377
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Blackpool” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Blackpool”
  • Arabic: “بلاكبول”
  • Arabic: “جائزة الكرة الذهبية الأوروبية”
  • Aragonese: “Blackpool”
  • Armenian: “Բլեքփուլ”
  • Asturian: “Blackpool”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blekpul”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bləkpul”
  • Basque: “Blackpool”
  • Belarusian: “Блэкпул”
  • Bengali: “ব্ল্যাকপুল”
  • Bengali: “ব্ল্যাক্‌পুল”
  • Bulgarian: “Блакпул”
  • Bulgarian: “Блекпул”
  • Bulgarian: “Блякпул”
  • Catalan: “Blackpool”
  • Cebuano: “Blackpool (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Blackpool”
  • Chinese: “Blackpool”
  • Chinese: “布力浦”
  • Chinese: “布莱克浦”
  • Chinese: “黑池”
  • Chinese: “黑潭”
  • Chinese: “黑潭市”
  • Chinese: “黑澤”
  • Croatian: “Blackpool”
  • Czech: “Blackpool”
  • Danish: “Blackpool”
  • Dutch: “Blackpool”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلاكبول”
  • Esperanto: “Blackpool”
  • Estonian: “Blackpool”
  • Finnish: “Blackpool”
  • French: “Aéroport de Squires Gate”
  • French: “Aéroport international de Blackpool”
  • French: “Blackpool”
  • French: “Squires Gate Airport”
  • French: “Squires Gate”
  • Galician: “Blackpool”
  • Georgian: “ბლეკპული”
  • German: “Blackpool”
  • German: “GB-BPL”
  • Greek: “Μπλάκπουλ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લેકપુલ”
  • Hebrew: “בלקפול”
  • Hungarian: “Blackpool”
  • Icelandic: “Blackpool”
  • Indonesian: “Blackpool”
  • Irish: “Blackpool”
  • Italian: “Blackpool”
  • Japanese: “ブラックプール”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲ್ಯಾಕ್ಪೂಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Blekpul”
  • Kirghiz: “Блэкпул шаары”
  • Korean: “블랙풀”
  • Ladin: “Blackpool”
  • Latvian: “Blekpūla”
  • Lithuanian: “Blackpool”
  • Lithuanian: “Blakpulas”
  • Lithuanian: “Blekpulis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Blackpool”
  • Macedonian: “Блекпул”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Blackpool”
  • Minangkabau: “Blackpool”
  • Northern Frisian: “Blackpool”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blackpool”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blackpool”
  • Norwegian: “Blackpool”
  • Ossetian: “Блэкпул”
  • Persian: “بلک پول”
  • Persian: “بلک‌پول”
  • Persian: “بلکپول”
  • Piemontese: “Blackpool”
  • Polish: “Blackpool”
  • Portuguese: “Blackpool”
  • Quechua: “Blackpool”
  • Romanian: “Blackpool”
  • Russian: “Блекпул”
  • Russian: “Блэкпул”
  • Scots: “Blackpool”
  • Serbian: “Blackpool”
  • Serbian: “Blekpul”
  • Serbian: “Блекпул”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blackpool”
  • Silesian: “Blackpool”
  • Slovak: “Blackpool”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلکپول”
  • Spanish: “Blackpool”
  • Swahili: “Blackpool”
  • Swedish: “Blackpool”
  • Tamil: “ப்ளாக்பூல்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ளாக்ப்பூள்”
  • Tatar: “Бләкпул”
  • Telugu: “బ్లాక్ పూల్”
  • Telugu: “బ్లాక్పూల్”
  • Thai: “Blackpool”
  • Thai: “แบล็กพูล”
  • Thai: “แบล็คพูล”
  • Turkish: “Blackpool”
  • Ukrainian: “Блекпул”
  • Urdu: “بلیکپول”
  • Uzbek: “Blackpool”
  • Uzbek: “Blekpul”
  • Vietnamese: “Blackpool”
  • Volapük: “Blackpool”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Blackpool”
  • Welsh: “Blackpool”
  • Welsh: “Pwll Du”
  • Wu Chinese: “布莱克浦”
  • Yue Chinese: “布力浦”
  • “Blackpool”

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