Chester

Chester is a very pretty and historic city on the river Dee, and the county town of the North-Western county of . Although maybe not worth a whole holiday, it's well worth a day or overnight trip to see the Roman ruins and medieval city centre.
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  • City with 119,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 112 feet (34 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code CEG
  • Description: city in Cheshire, England
  • Postal codes
    CH1
    CH4
  • Also known as
    “Chester, Cheshire”
    “Chester, England”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary and Chester Railway Station.

Church
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Chester Cathedral is a cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester.

Railway station
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serves the city of Chester…

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is in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blacon and Saltney.

Suburb
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is a suburb of Chester, .

Suburb
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is a town straddling the counties of and on the England–Wales border.

Suburb
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Abbot's Meads is a suburb of Chester in , England.

Chester

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Latitude
53.1909° or 53° 11′ 27″ north
Longitude
-2.8909° or 2° 53′ 27″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB CEG and GB CSR
Open location code
9C5V54R5+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8087537
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2653228
Wiki­data ID
Q170263

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Chester” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቸስተር”
  • Arabic: “Chester”
  • Arabic: “تشستر”
  • Armenian: “Չեստեր”
  • Asturian: “Chester”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çester”
  • Basque: “Chester”
  • Belarusian: “Чэстэр”
  • Bengali: “চেষ্টার”
  • Bengali: “চেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Chester”
  • Bulgarian: “Честър”
  • Burmese: “ချက်စတာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Chester”
  • Cebuano: “Chester (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Chester”
  • Central Kurdish: “جێستەر”
  • Chinese: “切斯特”
  • Chinese: “車士打”
  • Cornish: “Kardeva”
  • Czech: “Chester”
  • Danish: “Chester”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Chester, İngıltere”
  • Dutch: “Chester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشستر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيستر”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉestro”
  • Esperanto: “Chester”
  • Estonian: “Chester”
  • Finnish: “Chester”
  • French: “Chester”
  • French: “Deva Victrix”
  • Galician: “Chester”
  • Georgian: “ჩესტერი”
  • German: “Caer”
  • German: “Chester”
  • Greek: “Τσέστερ, Αγγλία”
  • Greek: “Τσέστερ, Τσέσαϊρ”
  • Greek: “Τσέστερ”
  • Gujarati: “ચેસ્ટર”
  • Hausa: “Chester”
  • Hebrew: “צ’סטר”
  • Hebrew: “צסטר”
  • Hindi: “चेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Chester”
  • Icelandic: “Chester”
  • Indonesian: “Chester”
  • Irish: “Chester”
  • Italian: “Chester”
  • Japanese: “チェスター”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Korean: “체스터”
  • Kurdish: “Chester, Cheshire”
  • Kurdish: “Chester”
  • Ladin: “Chester”
  • Latin: “Cestria”
  • Latin: “Deva Victrix”
  • Latin: “Deva” (historical)
  • Latvian: “Čestera”
  • Lithuanian: “Česteris”
  • Lithuanian: “Chester”
  • Livvi: “Caer”
  • Lombard: “Chester”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chester”
  • Malay: “Chester”
  • Manipuri: “ꯆꯦꯁꯇꯔ”
  • Manx: “Chester”
  • Manx: “Yn Chaayr”
  • Manx: “Yn Çhaayr”
  • Marathi: “चेस्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “چستر”
  • Mongolian: “Честер”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chester”
  • Norwegian: “Chester”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ceaster”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Legeceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Честер”
  • Persian: “چستر”
  • Polish: “Chester”
  • Portuguese: “Chester”
  • Quechua: “Chester”
  • Romanian: “Chester”
  • Russian: “Честер”
  • Scots: “Chester”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Chester”
  • Serbian: “Čester”
  • Serbian: “Chester”
  • Serbian: “Честер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čester”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chester”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Честер”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းၶျႅတ်ႉသတိူဝ်ႇ”
  • Silesian: “Chester”
  • Sinhala: “චෙස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Chester”
  • Slovenian: “Chester”
  • Spanish: “Chester”
  • Swedish: “Chester”
  • Tamil: “செஸ்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Честер”
  • Telugu: “చెస్టర్”
  • Thai: “เชสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Chester”
  • Ukrainian: “Честер”
  • Urdu: “چیسٹر”
  • Uzbek: “Chester”
  • Vietnamese: “Chester”
  • Volapük: “Chester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chester”
  • Welsh: “Caer”
  • Welsh: “Caerllion Fawr”
  • Welsh: “Caerllion”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیسٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “切斯特”
  • Yue Chinese: “車士打”

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