Colchester

Colchester is a city in , East Anglia. Home to the University of Essex, the Colchester Institute and an Army Garrison, and with its attractive old buildings, Roman wall, castle and proximity to Constable country, Colchester is an interesting place to visit.
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  • City with 173,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 95 feet (29 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code CLB
  • …is also known as “Colchester (parish)”
  • Description: city in Essex, England, UK

Places of Interest

Highlights include Colchester Castle and Colchester railway station.
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is a Norman castle in Colchester…
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is a principal stop on the…
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is on the Sunshine…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lexden and Berechurch.
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is a suburb of Colchester in , England…
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is a suburb of Colchester in , England, lying to the south of the city centre.
is an area in the southeastern part of Colchester in , England, on the River Colne.

Colchester

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Latitude
51.8897° or 51° 53′ 23″ north
Longitude
0.8995° or 0° 53′ 58″ east
UN/LOCODE
GB COL
Open location code
9F32VVQX+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21503243
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2652618
Wiki­data ID
Q184163

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Colchester” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Colchester”
  • Arabic: “كولشيستر:”
  • Arabic: “كولشيستر”
  • Aragonese: “Colchester”
  • Armenian: “Կոլչեստր”
  • Armenian: “Քոլչեսթեր”
  • Asturian: “Colchester”
  • Basque: “Colchester”
  • Belarusian: “Колчэстэр”
  • Bengali: “কোলচেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Camulodunum”
  • Breton: “Colchester”
  • Bulgarian: “Колчестър”
  • Catalan: “Colchester”
  • Cebuano: “Colchester”
  • Chinese: “科尔切斯特”
  • Chinese: “科爾切斯特”
  • Chinese: “科赤斯特”
  • Chinese: “高車士打”
  • Czech: “Colchester”
  • Danish: “Colchester”
  • Dutch: “Camalodunum”
  • Dutch: “Colchester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولتشيستر”
  • Esperanto: “Colchester”
  • Finnish: “Camulodunum”
  • Finnish: “Colchester”
  • French: “Colchester”
  • Georgian: “კოლჩესტერი”
  • German: “Colchester”
  • Greek: “Κόλτσεστερ”
  • Gujarati: “કોલચેસ્ટર”
  • Hausa: “Colchester”
  • Hebrew: “קולצ’סטר”
  • Hindi: “कोलचेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Colchester”
  • Icelandic: “Colchester”
  • Indonesian: “Colchester”
  • Interlingua: “Colchester”
  • Irish: “Colchester”
  • Italian: “Colchester”
  • Japanese: “コルチェスター (教区)”
  • Japanese: “コルチェスター”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಲ್ಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Korean: “콜체스터”
  • Ladin: “Colchester”
  • Latin: “Camalodunum”
  • Latin: “Camulodunum”
  • Latin: “Colonia Claudia Victricensis”
  • Latin: “Colonia Victricensis”
  • Latvian: “Kolčestera”
  • Lithuanian: “Colchester”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolčesteris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Colchester”
  • Macedonian: “Колчестер”
  • Malay: “Colchester”
  • Marathi: “कोल्चेस्टर”
  • Mongolian: “Колчестер”
  • Northern Frisian: “Colchester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colchester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colchester i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colchester”
  • Norwegian: “Colchester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Colneceaster”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Colchester, Essex”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Colchester”
  • Persian: “کولچستر”
  • Polish: “Colchester”
  • Portuguese: “Colchester”
  • Romanian: “Colchester”
  • Russian: “Колчестер”
  • Russian: “Кольчестер”
  • Scots: “Colchester”
  • Serbian: “Colchester”
  • Serbian: “Kolčester”
  • Serbian: “Колчестер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colchester”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kolčester”
  • Silesian: “Colchester”
  • Slovak: “Colchester”
  • Slovenian: “Colchester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کولچستر”
  • Spanish: “Colchester”
  • Swahili: “Colchester”
  • Swedish: “Colchester”
  • Tajik: “Кулчестер”
  • Tamil: “கால்செஸ்டர்”
  • Tamil: “வில்லிங்டோன்”
  • Tatar: “Колчестер”
  • Telugu: “కాల్చేస్టార్”
  • Telugu: “కోల్చెస్టర్”
  • Thai: “โคลเชสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Colchester”
  • Ukrainian: “Колчестер”
  • Urdu: “کولچسٹر”
  • Venetian: “Colchester”
  • Volapük: “Colchester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colchester”
  • Welsh: “Caer Colun”
  • Welsh: “Caerfuddai”
  • Welsh: “Colchester”
  • Wu Chinese: “科尔切斯特”
  • Yue Chinese: “高車士打”

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