Galway
Galway is the county town of County Galway on the west coast of Ireland. It's Ireland's fourth-largest city, with a population in 2024 of 85,000, but its historic centre on the east bank of the River Corrib is compact.
- City with about 83,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (80 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code GWY
- Description: city in Ireland
- Also known as“Gallway”“Gallway T.”“Gallway Town”“Galway city”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galway railway station and Spanish Arch.
Galway railway station
Galway Railway Station is a railway station which serves the city of Galway in County Galway.
The Sportsground
Dexcom Stadium in Galway, Ireland is the home of Connacht Rugby.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Claddagh and Salthill.
Galway
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Latitude
53.2744° or 53° 16′ 28″ north
Longitude
-9.0491° or 9° 2′ 57″ west
UN/LOCODE
IE GWY
Open location code
9C5G7XF2+Q9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Galway” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Galway”
- Albanian: “Galway”
- Arabic: “غالواي”
- Aragonese: “Gaillimh”
- Armenian: “Գոլուեյ”
- Asturian: “Galway”
- Azerbaijani: “Qoluey”
- Basque: “Galway”
- Belarusian: “Голуэй”
- Bengali: “গালওয়ে”
- Breton: “Gaillimh”
- Breton: “Galliv”
- Bulgarian: “Голуей”
- Catalan: “Galway”
- Cebuano: “Gaillimh (kapital sa lalawigan sa Ireland)”
- Cebuano: “Gaillimh”
- Cebuano: “Galway City”
- Chinese: “哥尔威”
- Chinese: “哥尔威市”
- Chinese: “哥爾威”
- Chinese: “哥爾威市”
- Chinese: “戈尔韦”
- Chinese: “戈尔韦市”
- Chinese: “戈爾韋”
- Chinese: “戈爾韋市”
- Chinese: “高威”
- Chinese: “高威市”
- Chinese: “高維”
- Chinese: “高維市”
- Chinese: “高维”
- Chinese: “高维市”
- Croatian: “Galway”
- Czech: “An Gaillimh”
- Czech: “Galway”
- Danish: “Galway”
- Dimli (individual language): “Galway”
- Dutch: “Galway”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جالواى”
- Esperanto: “Galivo”
- Estonian: “Galway”
- Faroese: “Galway”
- Finnish: “Galway”
- French: “Galway”
- Galician: “Galway”
- Georgian: “გოლუეი”
- German: “City of Galway”
- German: “Galway City”
- German: “Galway”
- Greek: “Γκόλγουεϊ”
- Gujarati: “ગેલવે”
- Hebrew: “גולווי”
- Hebrew: “גולוויי”
- Hindi: “गैलवे”
- Hungarian: “Galway”
- Iban: “Galway”
- Icelandic: “Galway”
- Ido: “Galway”
- Indonesian: “Galway”
- Interlingue: “Galway”
- Irish: “Gaillimh”
- Italian: “Galway”
- Japanese: “ゴールウェー”
- Japanese: “ゴールウェイ”
- Kannada: “ಗಾಲ್ವೇ”
- Korean: “골웨이”
- Latin: “Galvia”
- Latvian: “Golveja”
- Limburgan: “Galway”
- Lithuanian: “Golvėjus”
- Low German: “Galway”
- Luxembourgish: “Galway”
- Malay: “Galway”
- Maltese: “Galway”
- Manx: “Galliu”
- Marathi: “गॅलवे”
- Mingrelian: “გოლუეი სიტი”
- Mingrelian: “გოლუეი”
- Mongolian: “Галвэй”
- Nauru: “Galway”
- Northern Frisian: “Galway”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Galway”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galway”
- Norwegian: “Galway”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Galwæg”
- Ossetian: “Голуэй”
- Persian: “گالوي”
- Persian: “گالوی”
- Piemontese: “Galway”
- Polish: “Galway”
- Portuguese: “Galway”
- Romanian: “Galway”
- Russian: “Голвэй”
- Russian: “Голуэй”
- Scots: “Galway”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile na Gaillimhe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gaillimh”
- Serbian: “Golvej”
- Serbian: “Голвеј”
- Serbian: “Град Голвеј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galway”
- Sinhala: “ගල්වේ”
- Slovak: “Galway”
- Slovenian: “Galway”
- Spanish: “Galway”
- Swahili: “Galway”
- Swedish: “Galway City”
- Swedish: “Galway”
- Tajik: “Goluej”
- Tajik: “Голуэй”
- Tajik: “Горлуэй”
- Tamil: “கால்வே”
- Tatar: “Голвей”
- Telugu: “గాల్వే”
- Thai: “กอลเวย์”
- Thai: “กัลเวย์”
- Turkish: “Galway”
- Ukrainian: “Голвей”
- Ukrainian: “Ґолвей”
- Ukrainian: “Голуей”
- Urdu: “جالوای”
- Urdu: “گالوے”
- Vietnamese: “Galway”
- Volapük: “Gaillimh”
- Welsh: “Gaillimh”
- Western Armenian: “Կալուէյ”
- Western Frisian: “Galway”
- Wu Chinese: “戈尔韦”
- Yue Chinese: “高威”
- “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
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