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Cork

Cork is the principal city of in southwest Ireland. Known as "the Rebel City" the "real capital of Ireland", Cork has a strong independence and Corkonians are proud of its role in Irish history.
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  • Type: City with 223,000 residents
  • Description: city in County Cork, Munster Province, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Corcaigh”, “Cork city”, “Cork City”, “Cork Liberties”, “Corke”, “Corke Lib.”, “Corke Liberties”, and “Corke Libts.”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cork Kent and Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral.

Railway station
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Kent Station is an Iarnród Éireann railway station in Cork, . Originally opened in 1893, the station operates as a hub for Intercity services to Dublin and Tralee and commuter services to , and .

Church
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Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a Gothic Revival three-spire cathedral in Cork city, Ireland. It is located on the south bank of the and dedicated to Finbarr of Cork, patron saint of the city.

Stadium
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is an all-seater football stadium located in and synonymous with the district of in Cork, Ireland. It is owned by the Munster Football Association, and is used by the MFA and by League of Ireland side Cork City.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Douglas and Ballintemple.

Suburb
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Cork is the principal city of in southwest Ireland. Known as "the Rebel City" the "real capital of Ireland", Cork has a strong independence and Corkonians are proud of its role in Irish history.

Suburb
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is a suburb of Cork city, . The village is situated on the east side of the city with its limits extending to the River Lee and the village of further to the east.

Suburb
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Turners Cross is a ward on the south side of Cork City in Ireland, and home to the Roman Catholic parish of the same name. Largely residential, one of the key features of the area is the iconic church created by architect Barry Byrne and sculptor John Storrs, the Church of Christ the King.

Cork

Latitude
51.8985° or 51° 53′ 55″ north
Longitude
-8.4726° or 8° 28′ 22″ west
Population
223,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
ORK
United Nations Location Code
IE ORK
Open location code
9C3HVGXG+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1422314245
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2965140
Wiki­data ID
Q36647
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cork” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cork”
  • Albanian: “Kork”
  • Arabic: “كورك سيتي”
  • Arabic: “كورك”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كورك /ايرلاندا”
  • Aragonese: “Corcaigh”
  • Armenian: “Կորկ”
  • Asturian: “Cork”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kork”
  • Bashkir: “Корк”
  • Basque: “Cork”
  • Belarusian: “Корк”
  • Bengali: “কর্ক”
  • Bosnian: “Cork”
  • Breton: “Corcaigh”
  • Breton: “Cork”
  • Breton: “Korkig”
  • Bulgarian: “Корк”
  • Catalan: “Corcaigh”
  • Catalan: “Cork”
  • Cebuano: “Cork (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Cork City”
  • Cebuano: “Cork”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆرک”
  • Chechen: “Корк”
  • Chinese: “科克”
  • Croatian: “Corcaigh”
  • Croatian: “Cork”
  • Czech: “Corcaigh”
  • Czech: “Cork”
  • Danish: “Corcaigh”
  • Danish: “Cork”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cork”
  • Dutch: “Cork”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كورك”
  • Esperanto: “Corcaigh”
  • Esperanto: “Cork”
  • Estonian: “Corcaigh”
  • Estonian: “Cork”
  • Faroese: “Cork”
  • Finnish: “Cork”
  • Finnish: “Corkin kaupunki”
  • French: “Corcaigh”
  • French: “Cork City”
  • French: “Cork”
  • Galician: “Corcaigh”
  • Galician: “Cork”
  • Georgian: “კორკი”
  • German: “Corcaigh”
  • German: “Cork”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺”
  • Greek: “Κορκ”
  • Gujarati: “કૉર્ક”
  • Hebrew: “קורק”
  • Hindi: “कॉर्क”
  • Hungarian: “Cork”
  • Iban: “Cork”
  • Icelandic: “Cork”
  • Ido: “Cork, Irlando”
  • Ido: “Cork”
  • Indonesian: “Corcaigh”
  • Indonesian: “Cork”
  • Interlingue: “Cork”
  • Irish: “Cathair Chorcaí”
  • Irish: “Cathair Chórcaí”
  • Irish: “Chorcaigh”
  • Irish: “Corcaigh”
  • Italian: “Cork”
  • Japanese: “コーク”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Корк”
  • Korean: “코크”
  • Latin: “Corcagia”
  • Latin: “Cork”
  • Latin: “Regiona Suber”
  • Latvian: “Corcaigh”
  • Latvian: “Cork”
  • Latvian: “Korka”
  • Lithuanian: “Korkas”
  • Low German: “Cork”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cork”
  • Macedonian: “Корк”
  • Malay: “Cork”
  • Maltese: “Cork”
  • Manx: “Corcaigh”
  • Manx: “Cork”
  • Manx: “Corkee”
  • Marathi: “कॉर्क”
  • Mingrelian: “კორკი”
  • Moksha: “Корк”
  • Mongolian: “Корк”
  • Nauru: “Cork”
  • Nauru: “Kork”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cork”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cork”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Corcaigh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cork”
  • Norwegian: “Cork”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Corcaig”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Corcaigh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cork”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Corcaig”
  • Ossetian: “Корк”
  • Persian: “کورک”
  • Piemontese: “Cork”
  • Polish: “Corcaigh”
  • Polish: “Cork”
  • Pontic: “Κορκ”
  • Portuguese: “Corcaigh”
  • Portuguese: “Cork”
  • Romanian: “Cork”
  • Russian: “Корк”
  • Samogitian: “Kuorks”
  • Sardinian: “Cork”
  • Scots: “Cork”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Corcaigh”
  • Serbian: “Corcaigh”
  • Serbian: “Cork”
  • Serbian: “Град Корк”
  • Serbian: “Корк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Corcaigh”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cork”
  • Silesian: “Cork”
  • Sinhala: “කෝක්”
  • Slovak: “Cork”
  • Slovenian: “Cork”
  • Spanish: “Corcaigh”
  • Spanish: “Cork”
  • Swahili: “Cork”
  • Swedish: “City of Cork”
  • Swedish: “Corcaigh”
  • Swedish: “Cork City (grevskap i Irland)”
  • Swedish: “Cork City”
  • Swedish: “Cork”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Cork”
  • Tajik: “Корк”
  • Tamil: “கார்க்”
  • Tamil: “கோர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Корк”
  • Telugu: “కోర్క్”
  • Thai: “Cork”
  • Thai: “คอร์ก”
  • Tok Pisin: “Cork”
  • Turkish: “Cork”
  • Turkmen: “Kork”
  • Ukrainian: “Корк”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cork”
  • Urdu: “کورک”
  • Uzbek: “Kork”
  • Venetian: “Cork”
  • Veps: “Kork”
  • Vietnamese: “Cork”
  • Vlaams: “Cork”
  • Volapük: “Corcaigh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cork”
  • Welsh: “Corc”
  • Welsh: “Corcaigh”
  • Welsh: “Cork”
  • Western Frisian: “Cork”
  • Wu Chinese: “科克 (爱尔兰)”
  • Wu Chinese: “科克（爱尔兰）”
  • Yue Chinese: “科克”
  • “Cork”
  • “Kuorks”

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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 “Cork”. Photo: psyberartist, CC BY 2.0.