South East England
Kent
Dover District

Dover

Dover is a major port town in East , facing into the English Channel. At just 21 mi from the French port of , it is the closest port to continental Europe on mainland Britain.
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  • Type: Town with 34,100 residents
  • Description: town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England
  • Also known as: “Dover, England” and “Dover, Kent”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Dover Castle and Dover Priory railway station.

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is a medieval castle in Dover, , England and is Grade I listed. It was founded in the 11th century and has been described as the "Key to England" due to its defensive significance throughout history.

Railway station
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is the southern terminus of the South Eastern Main Line. It is the main station serving the town of Dover, in , England; the other is , on the outskirts.

Lighthouse
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Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, , England. As the closest point to continental Europe and the site of the estuary of the Dour, the site chosen for Dover was ideal for a cross-channel port.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Buckland and Maxton.

Suburb
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including Valley is a village near Dover, in the county of , England. It is noted for the Anglo-Saxon cemetery whose finds now belong to the but are on display at Dover Museum.

Suburb
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is an area in the west of Dover, in the county of , England. also served as the terminus of the tramway system serving the town until its closure in 1938. is now a suburb of Dover.

Village
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is a civil parish and historic village in the county of , England. The village is part of the Dover district of Kent, and forms part of the Dover urban area. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Dover.

Dover

Latitude
51.1251° or 51° 7′ 31″ north
Longitude
1.3134° or 1° 18′ 48″ east
Population
34,100
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
IATA airport code
QQD
United Nations Location Code
GB DVR
Open location code
9F3348G7+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21421224
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2651048
Wiki­data ID
Q179224
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dover” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dover, Engeland”
  • Afrikaans: “Dover”
  • Arabic: “دوفر”
  • Armenian: “Դուվր”
  • Asturian: “Dover”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dover”
  • Azerbaijani: “Duvr”
  • Basque: “Dover”
  • Belarusian: “Дуўр”
  • Bengali: “ডোভার”
  • Breton: “Dover”
  • Bulgarian: “Доувър”
  • Bulgarian: “Дувър”
  • Catalan: “Dover”
  • Cebuano: “Dover”
  • Chechen: “Дувр”
  • Chinese: “多佛”
  • Chinese: “多佛尔”
  • Chinese: “多佛爾”
  • Croatian: “Dover (Kent)”
  • Croatian: “Dover”
  • Czech: “Dover”
  • Danish: “Dover”
  • Dutch: “Daveren”
  • Dutch: “Dover”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دوفر”
  • Esperanto: “Dover”
  • Esperanto: “Dovero”
  • Esperanto: “Dovro”
  • Estonian: “Dover”
  • Finnish: “Dover”
  • French: “Douvres”
  • Galician: “Dover”
  • Georgian: “დუვრი”
  • German: “Dover”
  • Greek: “Ντόβερ”
  • Gujarati: “ડોવર”
  • Hausa: “Dover”
  • Hebrew: “דובר”
  • Hungarian: “Dover”
  • Icelandic: “Dover”
  • Ido: “Dover”
  • Indonesian: “Dover, Kent”
  • Indonesian: “Dover”
  • Irish: “Dover”
  • Italian: “Dover”
  • Italian: “Dubris”
  • Italian: “Portus Dubris”
  • Japanese: “ドーヴァー”
  • Japanese: “ドーバー”
  • Kannada: “ಡೋವರ್”
  • Korean: “도버”
  • Ladin: “Dover”
  • Latin: “Dubris”
  • Latvian: “Dovera”
  • Latvian: “Duvra”
  • Lithuanian: “Doveris”
  • Macedonian: “Довер”
  • Malagasy: “Dover”
  • Maltese: “Dover”
  • Marathi: “डोव्हर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dover”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dover”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dover”
  • Norwegian: “Dover”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dover”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dofere”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dofras”
  • Ossetian: “Дувр”
  • Persian: “دوور (انگلستان)”
  • Persian: “دوور”
  • Polish: “Dover”
  • Portuguese: “Dover”
  • Romanian: “Dover”
  • Russian: “Dover”
  • Russian: “Дувер”
  • Russian: “Дувр”
  • Sardinian: “Dover”
  • Serbian: “Dover”
  • Serbian: “Довер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dover”
  • Silesian: “Dover”
  • Slovak: “Dover”
  • Slovenian: “Dover”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوور (اینگیلیس)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوور”
  • Spanish: “Dover”
  • Spanish: “Duvres”
  • Swedish: “Dover”
  • Swiss German: “Dover”
  • Tamil: “டோவர் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “டோவர்”
  • Telugu: “డోవర్”
  • Thai: “โดเวอร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Dover”
  • Turkish: “Dover”
  • Ukrainian: “Дувр”
  • Urdu: “آبنائے ڈوور”
  • Urdu: “ڈوور”
  • Volapük: “Dover”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dover, Kent”
  • Welsh: “Dofr”
  • Welsh: “Dover”
  • Western Frisian: “Dover”
  • Wu Chinese: “多佛”
  • Yue Chinese: “度華”
  • “Dover”

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