South East England
Kent
City of Canterbury

Canterbury

Canterbury is a cathedral and university city in , in the South East of . Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and hence the Primus inter pares of the primates of each national church in the Anglican Communion and spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England.
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  • Type: City with 43,400 residents
  • Description: cathedral city in Kent, England
  • Also known as: “Canterbury, United Kingdom”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine’s Abbey.

Church
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is the cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England. The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation.

Church
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The Church of St Martin is an ancient Church of England parish church in Canterbury, England, situated slightly beyond the city centre. It is recognised as the oldest church building in Britain still in use as a church, and the oldest existing parish church in the English-speaking world, although Roman and Celtic churches had existed for centuries.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wincheap and Harbledown.

Suburb
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is a road and suburb in Canterbury, , England. The road forms part of the A28 road, stretching for around 1 mile from the city wall, close by , to the over-crossing of the A2 and the parish of .

Village
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is a village in the district, in , England, immediately west of Canterbury and contiguous with the city. At local government level the village is designated as a separate civil parish, that of and , which was renamed from in 2007.

Town
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is a market town and a civil parish in east , England, on the River Stour, northeast of Canterbury. It is the smallest community by population in Britain with a town council. Its population increased by 30 between 2001 and 2011.

Canterbury

Latitude
51.28° or 51° 16′ 48″ north
Longitude
1.0803° or 1° 4′ 49″ east
Population
43,400
Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CNB
Open location code
9F3373JJ+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17916174
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2653877
Wiki­data ID
Q29303
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Canterbury” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Canterbury”
  • Arabic: “كانتربري”
  • Arabic: “كانتربيري”
  • Arabic: “كانتيربيري”
  • Arabic: “كنتربري”
  • Arabic: “كنتربيري”
  • Arabic: “كنتيربيري”
  • Armenian: “Քենթերբերի”
  • Asturian: “Canterbury”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kenterberi”
  • Basque: “Canterbury”
  • Belarusian: “Кентэрберы”
  • Belarusian: “Кэнтэрбэры”
  • Bengali: “ক্যাঁতারবেরী”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টারবেরি”
  • Breton: “Canterbury”
  • Breton: “Kergent”
  • Bulgarian: “Кентърбъри”
  • Catalan: “Canterbury”
  • Cebuano: “Canterbury”
  • Chinese: “Canterbury”
  • Chinese: “坎特伯里”
  • Chinese: “坎特伯雷”
  • Chinese: “堪特伯雷”
  • Chinese: “根德伯里”
  • Croatian: “Canterbury”
  • Czech: “Canterbury”
  • Danish: “Canterbury”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Canterbury”
  • Dutch: “Canterbury”
  • Dutch: “Kantelberg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانتربيرى”
  • Esperanto: “Canterbury”
  • Esperanto: “Kanterbury”
  • Estonian: “Canterbury”
  • Finnish: “Canterbury”
  • French: “Canterbury”
  • French: “Cantorbéry”
  • Galician: “Canterbury”
  • German: “Canterbury”
  • Greek: “Καντέρμπερι”
  • Greek: “Κάντερμπερι”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ટરબરી”
  • Hebrew: “קנטרברי”
  • Hindi: “कैंटरबरी”
  • Hungarian: “Canterbury”
  • Icelandic: “Canterbury”
  • Icelandic: “Kantaraborg”
  • Ido: “Canterbury”
  • Indonesian: “Canterbury, Britania Raya”
  • Indonesian: “Canterbury”
  • Interlingue: “Canterbury”
  • Irish: “Canterbury”
  • Italian: “Canterbury”
  • Japanese: “カンタベリー”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಟರ್ಬರಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಂಟರ್ಬರಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Кентербери”
  • Kirghiz: “Кентербери”
  • Korean: “캔터베리”
  • Kurdish: “Canterbury”
  • Ladin: “Canterbury”
  • Latin: “Cantuaria”
  • Latin: “Durovernum Cantiacorum”
  • Latin: “Durovernum Canticorum”
  • Latin: “Durovernum”
  • Latvian: “Kenterberija”
  • Lithuanian: “Kenterberis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Canterbury”
  • Macedonian: “Кантербери”
  • Malagasy: “Canterbury”
  • Malay: “Canterbury”
  • Malayalam: “കാന്റർബറി”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯟꯇꯔꯕꯔꯤ”
  • Marathi: “कँटरबरी”
  • Marathi: “कँटेरबरी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Canterbury”
  • Moksha: “Кэнтэрбэри”
  • Narom: “Cantorbery”
  • Narom: “Cantorbéry”
  • Narom: “Cauntorbéry”
  • Northern Frisian: “Canterbury”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canterbury”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canterbury i Kent”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canterbury”
  • Norwegian: “Canterbury”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canterbury”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cantwaraburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cantwarebyrig”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dorwitceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Кентербери”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਂਟਰਬਰੀ”
  • Persian: “کانتربری”
  • Persian: “کنتربری”
  • Piemontese: “Canterbury”
  • Polish: “Canterbury”
  • Portuguese: “Cantuária”
  • Portuguese: “Cartulária”
  • Portuguese: “Catulária”
  • Quechua: “Canterbury”
  • Romanian: “Canterbury”
  • Russian: “Кентербери”
  • Scots: “Canterbury”
  • Serbian: “Кентербери”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Canterbury”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cantorbery”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kenterberi”
  • Sicilian: “Canterbury”
  • Silesian: “Canterbury”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්ටබරි”
  • Slovak: “Canterbury”
  • Slovenian: “Canterbury”
  • Spanish: “Canterbury”
  • Spanish: “Cantorbery”
  • Spanish: “Cantórbery”
  • Swahili: “Canterbury”
  • Swedish: “Canterbury”
  • Tajik: “Кентерберӣ”
  • Tamil: “கண்டெர்புரி”
  • Tamil: “கான்டெர்பரி”
  • Tatar: “Кәнтербери”
  • Telugu: “కాంటర్బరీ”
  • Thai: “แคนเทอร์เบอรี”
  • Turkish: “Canterbury”
  • Ukrainian: “Кентербері”
  • Urdu: “کینٹربری”
  • Vietnamese: “Canterbury”
  • Volapük: “Canterbury”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Canterbury”
  • Welsh: “Caergaint”
  • Western Frisian: “Canterbury”
  • Wu Chinese: “坎特伯雷”
  • Yue Chinese: “根德伯里”
  • “Canterbury”

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