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  • Type: City with 463,000 residents
  • Description: city in South West England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Bristol, England”, “Bristol, Gloucestershire”, and “Bristol, UK”

Places of Interest

Highlights include SS Great Britain and Ashton Gate.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. The largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853, she was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City.

Stadium
Photo: SGGH, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-use in , England, and is the home of Bristol City F.C. and the Bristol Bears rugby union team. Located in the south-west of the city, just south of the River Avon, it currently has an all-seated capacity of 26,462.

Church
Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.
, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Bristol, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bristol.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Long Ashton and Lawrence Hill.

Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a dormitory town 5 km south west of Bristol in Somerset, . It is known for its bio science research centre Fenswood Farm, known by the locals as The Farm.

Neighborhood
is an electoral ward of Bristol, United Kingdom and includes the districts of , St Philips Marsh and , Temple Meads and parts of and the shopping area.

Suburb
is an inner suburban neighbourhood and an electoral ward in Bristol, England, located around 2 miles northeast of The Centre. It is roughly centred on Muller Road between its junctions with Stapleton Road and Fishponds Road.

Bristol

Latitude
51.4505° or 51° 27′ 2″ north
Longitude
-2.5947° or 2° 35′ 41″ west
Population
463,000
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
IATA airport code
BRS
United Nations Location Code
GB BRS
Open location code
9C3VFC24+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 959199214
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2654675
Wiki­data ID
Q23154
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bristol” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bristol”
  • Albanian: “Bristol”
  • Amharic: “ብርስተል”
  • Arabic: “برستل”
  • Arabic: “بريستول”
  • Aragonese: “Bristón”
  • Armenian: “Բրիստոլ”
  • Asturian: “Bristol”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bristol”
  • Balinese: “Bristol”
  • Basque: “Bristol”
  • Bavarian: “Bristol”
  • Belarusian: “Брыстал”
  • Belarusian: “Брысталь”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিস্টল”
  • Bhojpuri: “ब्रिस्टल”
  • Bosnian: “Bristol”
  • Breton: “Bristol”
  • Breton: “Bryste”
  • Bulgarian: “Бристъл”
  • Catalan: “Bristol”
  • Cebuano: “Bristol”
  • Central Kurdish: “بریستۆڵ”
  • Chinese: “Bristol”
  • Chinese: “布里斯托”
  • Chinese: “布里斯托尔”
  • Chinese: “布里斯托爾”
  • Chinese: “碧仙桃”
  • Chuvash: “Бристоль”
  • Cornish: “Bristol”
  • Croatian: “Bristol”
  • Czech: “Bristol”
  • Danish: “Bristol”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bristol”
  • Dutch: “Bristol”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برستل”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريستول”
  • Esperanto: “Bristolo”
  • Estonian: “Bristol”
  • Extremaduran: “Bristol”
  • Finnish: “Bristol”
  • French: “Bristol (Angleterre)”
  • French: “Bristol (Royaume-Uni)”
  • French: “Bristol”
  • Galician: “Bristol”
  • Georgian: “ბრისტოლი”
  • German: “Bristol”
  • Greek: “Μπρίστολ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રિસ્ટોલ”
  • Hausa: “Bristol”
  • Hebrew: “בריסטול”
  • Hindi: “ब्रिस्टल”
  • Hungarian: “Bristol”
  • Icelandic: “Bristol”
  • Ido: “Bristol”
  • Iloko: “Bristol”
  • Indonesian: “Bristol”
  • Interlingue: “Bristol”
  • Irish: “Briostó”
  • Italian: “Bristol”
  • Japanese: “ブリストル”
  • Kabyle: “Bristol”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಸ್ಟಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಸ್ಟಲ್‌”
  • Kazakh: “Бристоль”
  • Korean: “브리스틀”
  • Kurdish: “Bristol”
  • Ladin: “Bristol”
  • Latin: “Bristolium”
  • Latvian: “Bristole”
  • Lithuanian: “Bristolis”
  • Lombard: “Bristol”
  • Low German: “Bristol”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bristol”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bristol”
  • Macedonian: “Бристол”
  • Malagasy: “Bristol”
  • Malay: “Bristol”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രിസ്റ്റൽ”
  • Maltese: “Bristol”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕ꯭ꯔꯤꯁ꯭ꯇꯣꯜ”
  • Manx: “Bristol”
  • Marathi: “ब्रिस्टल”
  • Mazanderani: “بریستول”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bristol”
  • Mirandese: “Bristol”
  • Mongolian: “Бристоль”
  • Narom: “Bristo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bristol”
  • Northern Sami: “Bristol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bristol”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bristol”
  • Norwegian: “Bristol”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bristol”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bristòl”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bricgstow”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bricgstōƿ”
  • Ossetian: “Бристоль”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰਿਸਟਲ”
  • Persian: “بریستول”
  • Piemontese: “Bristol”
  • Polish: “Bristol”
  • Portuguese: “Bristol, Inglaterra”
  • Portuguese: “Bristol”
  • Quechua: “Bristol”
  • Romanian: “Bristol”
  • Russian: “Бристоль”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱨᱤᱥᱴᱚᱞ, ᱤᱝᱞᱮᱱᱰ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱨᱤᱥᱴᱚᱞ”
  • Scots: “Bristol”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bristol”
  • Serbian: “Бристол”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bristol”
  • Sicilian: “Bristullu”
  • Silesian: “Bristol”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රිස්ටල්”
  • Slovak: “Bristol”
  • Slovenian: “Bristol”
  • Somali: “Bristol”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بریستول”
  • Spanish: “Bristol, Inglaterra”
  • Spanish: “Bristol”
  • Spanish: “Brístol”
  • Swahili: “Bristol”
  • Swedish: “Bristol”
  • Swiss German: “Bristol”
  • Tagalog: “Bristol”
  • Tamil: “பிரிஸ்டல்”
  • Tamil: “பிரிஸ்டோல்”
  • Tatar: “Бристол”
  • Telugu: “బ్రిస్టల్”
  • Thai: “บริสตอล”
  • Tumbuka: “Bristol”
  • Turkish: “Bristol”
  • Twi: “Bristol”
  • Uighur: “Bristol”
  • Ukrainian: “Бристоль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bristol”
  • Urdu: “برسٹل”
  • Uzbek: “Bristol”
  • Venetian: “Bristol”
  • Vietnamese: “Bristol”
  • Vlaams: “Bristol”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bristol”
  • Volapük: “Bristol”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bristol”
  • Welsh: “Bryste”
  • Western Frisian: “Bristol”
  • Western Panjabi: “برسٹل نگر”
  • Western Panjabi: “برسٹل”
  • Wu Chinese: “布里斯托尔”
  • Yiddish: “בריסטאל”
  • Yoruba: “Bristol”
  • Yue Chinese: “碧仙桃”
  • “Bristol”
  • “ब्रिस्टल”

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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 “Bristol”. Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.