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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort in , south-eastern coast of , 76 km south of . In 1997, the district of Brighton merged with Hove to form the City of Brighton and Hove which was given city status in 2001.
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  • Type: City with 256,000 residents
  • Description: city of Brighton & Hove, in East Sussex, England
  • Also known as: “Brighthelmston”, “Brighthelmstone”, “Brighton, East Sussex”, and “Brighton, England”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal Pavilion and Brighton Railway Station.

Photo: Qmin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The and its surrounding gardens form a Grade I listed former royal residence located in Brighton, England. Beginning in 1787, it was built in three stages as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, who became the Prince Regent in 1811, and King George IV in 1820.

Railway station
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the principal station serving the city of Brighton in , , England, operated by Govia Thameslink Railway.

Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , commonly known as Brighton Pier or the Palace Pier, is a Grade II* listed in Brighton, England, located in the city centre opposite the Old Steine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hove and Preston.

Town
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a seaside town in , England. Alongside Brighton, it is one of the two main parts of the city of . Originally a fishing village surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th century in response to the development of its eastern neighbour Brighton; by the Victorian era it was a fully developed town with borough status.

Village
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or Village is a suburb of , in the ceremonial county of , England. It is to the north of the centre. Originally a village in its own right, it was eventually absorbed into Brighton with the development of the farmland owned by the local Stanford family, officially becoming a parish of the town in 1928.

Locality
is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of . Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete character".

Brighton

Latitude
50.8215° or 50° 49′ 17″ north
Longitude
-0.1401° or 0° 8′ 24″ west
Population
256,000
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
IATA airport code
BSH
United Nations Location Code
GB BSH
Open location code
9C2XRVC5+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1326762432
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2654710
Wiki­data ID
Q131491
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Brighton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Brighton”
  • Arabic: “برايتن”
  • Arabic: “برايتون”
  • Aragonese: “Brighton”
  • Armenian: “Բրայթոն”
  • Asturian: “Brighton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brayton”
  • Balinese: “Brighton”
  • Basque: “Brighton”
  • Belarusian: “Брайтан”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাইটন”
  • Breton: “Brighton”
  • Bulgarian: “Брайтън”
  • Catalan: “Brighton”
  • Cebuano: “Brighton”
  • Chinese: “布莱顿”
  • Chinese: “布萊頓”
  • Chinese: “布賴頓”
  • Chinese: “布赖顿”
  • Chinese: “白禮頓”
  • Cornish: “Brighton”
  • Croatian: “Brighton”
  • Czech: “Brighton”
  • Danish: “Brighton”
  • Dutch: “Brighton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برايتون”
  • Esperanto: “Brajtono”
  • Esperanto: “Brighton”
  • Estonian: “Brighton”
  • Faroese: “Brighton”
  • Finnish: “Brighton”
  • French: “Brighton”
  • Galician: “Brighton”
  • Georgian: “ბრაიტონი”
  • German: “Brighton”
  • Greek: “Μπράιτον”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રાઇટન”
  • Hebrew: “ברייטון”
  • Hindi: “ब्राइटन”
  • Hungarian: “Brighton”
  • Icelandic: “Brighton”
  • Ido: “Brighton, Anglia”
  • Indonesian: “Brighton”
  • Interlingua: “Brighton”
  • Interlingue: “Brighton”
  • Irish: “Brighton”
  • Italian: “Brighton”
  • Japanese: “ブライトン”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೈಟನ್”
  • Korean: “브라이턴”
  • Korean: “브라이튼”
  • Ladin: “Brighton”
  • Latin: “Brightonia”
  • Latin: “Bristelmestuna”
  • Latvian: “Braitona”
  • Latvian: “Brighton”
  • Lithuanian: “Braitonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Brighton”
  • Low German: “Brighton”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brighton, East Sussex”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brighton, England”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brighton”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brighton”
  • Macedonian: “Брајтон”
  • Malagasy: “Brighton”
  • Malay: “Brighton”
  • Maltese: “Brighton”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕ꯭ꯔꯥꯢꯇꯟ”
  • Maori: “Peritiana”
  • Marathi: “ब्रायटन”
  • Mazanderani: “برایتن”
  • Moksha: “Брайтон”
  • Narom: “Brighton”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brighton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brighton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brighton”
  • Norwegian: “Brighton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beorhthelmesstan”
  • Ossetian: “Брайтон”
  • Persian: “برایتن”
  • Persian: “برایتون”
  • Polish: “Brighton”
  • Portuguese: “Brighton”
  • Quechua: “Brighton”
  • Romanian: “Brighton”
  • Russian: “Brighton”
  • Russian: “Брайтон”
  • Scots: “Brighton”
  • Serbian: “Brajton”
  • Serbian: “Brighton”
  • Serbian: “Брајтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brajton”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brighton”
  • Silesian: “Brighton”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රිටන්”
  • Slovak: “Brighton”
  • Slovenian: “Brighton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برایتون”
  • Spanish: “Brighton (Inglaterra)”
  • Spanish: “Brighton”
  • Swahili: “Brighton”
  • Swedish: “Brighton”
  • Swiss German: “Brighton”
  • Tamil: “பிரைட்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Брайтон”
  • Telugu: “బ్రైటన్”
  • Thai: “Brighton”
  • Thai: “ไบรตัน”
  • Thai: “ไบรท์ตัน”
  • Thai: “ไบรทัน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Brighton”
  • Turkish: “Brighton”
  • Twi: “Brighton”
  • Ukrainian: “Брайтон”
  • Urdu: “برائٹن”
  • Venetian: “Brighton”
  • Vietnamese: “Brighton”
  • Volapük: “Brighton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brighton”
  • Welsh: “Brighton”
  • Western Armenian: “Պրայթոն”
  • Wu Chinese: “布莱顿”
  • Yiddish: “ברייטאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “白禮頓”
  • Zulu: “Brighton”
  • “Brighton”
  • “Brighton, East Sussex”
  • “Brighton, Sussex Tlāpcopa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Brighton”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.