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Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
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  • Type: City with 606,000 residents
  • Description: city in Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Glaschu”, “Glasgow, Scotland”, and “Glasgow, UK”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Glasgow Central Station and Glasgow Cathedral.

Railway station
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Glasgow Central, usually referred to in Scotland as just Central or Central Station, is one of two principal mainline rail terminals in Glasgow, Scotland.

Church
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is a of the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, . It was the cathedral church of the Archbishop of Glasgow, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Glasgow and the province of Glasgow, from the 12th century until the Scottish Reformation in the 16th century.

Railway station
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Glasgow Queen Street is a passenger railway terminus serving the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two mainline railway terminals and is the third-busiest station in Scotland behind Central and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hillhead and Springburn.

Suburb
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is an area of Glasgow, Scotland. Situated north of and to the south of the , is at the heart of Glasgow's fashionable West End, with Byres Road forming the western border of the area, the other boundaries being Dumbarton Road to the south and the to the east and north.

Suburb
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is an inner-city district in the north of the Scottish city of Glasgow, made up of generally working-class households. developed from a rural hamlet at the beginning of the 19th century.

Suburb
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is an area within the city of Glasgow, located in the central belt of , situated on the north bank of the roughly between the city's West End and the city centre.

Glasgow

Latitude
55.8612° or 55° 51′ 40″ north
Longitude
-4.2502° or 4° 15′ 1″ west
Population
606,000
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
IATA airport code
GLA
United Nations Location Code
GB GLW
Open location code
9C7QVP6X+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11127374
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2648579
Wiki­data ID
Q4093
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Glasgow” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Glasgow”
  • Albanian: “Glasgou”
  • Albanian: “Glasgow”
  • Amharic: “ግላዝጎ”
  • Arabic: “غلاسكو”
  • Aragonese: “Glasgow”
  • Armenian: “Գլազգո”
  • Asturian: “Glasgow”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qlazqo”
  • Balinese: “Glasgow”
  • Bashkir: “Глазго”
  • Basque: “Glaschu”
  • Basque: “Glasgow”
  • Bavarian: “Glasgow”
  • Belarusian: “Глазга”
  • Bengali: “গ্লাসগো”
  • Bengali: “গ্লাসগ্রো”
  • Bosnian: “Glasgow”
  • Breton: “Glasc’ho”
  • Breton: “Glascho”
  • Bulgarian: “Глазгоу”
  • Burmese: “ဂလပ်စဂိုးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Glasgow”
  • Catalan: “Glesca”
  • Catalan: “Glesga”
  • Cebuano: “Glasgow”
  • Central Kurdish: “گلاسگۆ”
  • Chechen: “Глазго”
  • Chinese: “Glasgow”
  • Chinese: “格拉斯哥”
  • Chuvash: “Глазго”
  • Cornish: “Glasgow”
  • Corsican: “Glasgovia”
  • Corsican: “Glasgow”
  • Croatian: “Glasgow”
  • Czech: “Glasgow”
  • Danish: “Glasgow”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Glasgow”
  • Dutch: “Glasgow”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جلاسجو”
  • Esperanto: “Glasgovo”
  • Estonian: “Glasgow”
  • Extremaduran: “Glasgow”
  • Faroese: “Glasgow”
  • Finnish: “Glasgow”
  • French: “Glasgow”
  • Galician: “Glasgow”
  • Georgian: “გლაზგო”
  • German: “Glasgow”
  • Greek: “Γλασκώβη”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્લાસગો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Glasgow”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kak-là-sṳ̂-kô”
  • Hausa: “Glasgow”
  • Hawaiian: “Kalako”
  • Hebrew: “גלאזגו”
  • Hindi: “ग्लासगो”
  • Hindi: “ग्लास्गो”
  • Hungarian: “Glasgow”
  • Icelandic: “Glasgow”
  • Ido: “Glasgow”
  • Inari Sami: “Glasgow”
  • Indonesian: “Glasgow”
  • Interlingua: “Glasgow”
  • Interlingue: “Glasgow”
  • Irish: “Glaschú”
  • Italian: “Glasgovia”
  • Italian: “Glasgow”
  • Japanese: “グラスゴー”
  • Javanese: “Glasgow”
  • Kalaallisut: “Glasgow”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Glasgow”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಲಾಸ್ಗೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಲ್ಯಾಸ್ಗೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Glazgo”
  • Kazakh: “Глазго”
  • Kirghiz: “Глазго”
  • Komi: “Глазго”
  • Korean: “글래스고”
  • Kurdish: “Glasgow”
  • Ladino: “Glasgow”
  • Latin: “Glascovium”
  • Latin: “Glascua”
  • Latin: “Glascum”
  • Latin: “Glasgovia”
  • Latin: “Glasgua”
  • Latin: “Glasguae”
  • Latvian: “Glāzgova”
  • Limburgan: “Glasgow”
  • Lithuanian: “Glazgas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Glasgow”
  • Lule Sami: “Glasgow”
  • Luxembourgish: “Glasgow”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Glasgow”
  • Macedonian: “Глазгов”
  • Malagasy: “Glasgow”
  • Malay: “Glasgow”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്ലാസ്ഗോ”
  • Maltese: “Glasgow”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒ꯭ꯂꯥꯁꯒꯧ”
  • Manx: “Glaschu”
  • Maori: “Karahiko”
  • Marathi: “ग्लासगो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Glasgow”
  • Mingrelian: “გლაზგო”
  • Mongolian: “Глазго”
  • Mongolian: “Глазгоу”
  • Neapolitan: “Glasgow”
  • Northern Frisian: “Glasgow”
  • Northern Sami: “Glasgow”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Glasgow”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glasgow”
  • Norwegian: “Glasgow”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Glaschu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Glasgo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Glasgow”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Glasgow”
  • Ossetian: “Глазго”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਲਾਸਗੋ”
  • Persian: “گلاسگو”
  • Piemontese: “Glasgow”
  • Pite Sami: “Glasgow”
  • Polish: “Glasgow”
  • Portuguese: “Glasgow”
  • Pushto: “ګلاسګو”
  • Quechua: “Glasgow”
  • Romanian: “Glasgow”
  • Russian: “Глазго”
  • Samogitian: “Glazgos”
  • Sanskrit: “ग्लास्गो”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱞᱟᱥᱜᱳ”
  • Saraiki: “گلاسگو”
  • Scots: “Glasgae”
  • Scots: “Glasgow”
  • Scots: “Glesca”
  • Scots: “Glesga”
  • Scots: “Glesgae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Glaschu”
  • Serbian: “Глазгов”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Glasgow”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Глазгов”
  • Sicilian: “Glasgow”
  • Silesian: “Glasgow”
  • Sindhi: “گلاسگو”
  • Sinhala: “ග්ලාස්ගෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Glasgow”
  • Slovak: “Glasgow”
  • Slovenian: “Glasgow”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قلازقو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قلاسقو”
  • Southern Sami: “Glasgow”
  • Spanish: “Glasgow (Escocia)”
  • Spanish: “Glasgow”
  • Swahili: “Glasgow”
  • Swedish: “Glasgow, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Glasgow”
  • Tagalog: “Glasgow”
  • Tajik: “Глосгу”
  • Tamil: “கிளாஸ்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Glazgo”
  • Telugu: “గ్లాస్గో”
  • Tetum: “Glázgua”
  • Thai: “กลาสโกว์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Glasgow”
  • Turkish: “Glasgow”
  • Twi: “Glasgow”
  • Udmurt: “Глазго”
  • Uighur: “Glasgow”
  • Uighur: “گلاسگوۋ”
  • Ukrainian: “Глазго”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґлєзґов”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґлязґов”
  • Ume Sami: “Glasgow”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Glasgow”
  • Urdu: “گلاسگو”
  • Uzbek: “Glazgo”
  • Venetian: “Glasgow”
  • Veps: “Glazgo”
  • Vietnamese: “Glasgow”
  • Vlaams: “Glasgow”
  • Vlax Romani: “Glasgow”
  • Volapük: “Glasgow”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Glasgow”
  • Welsh: “Glasgow”
  • Western Frisian: “Glasgow”
  • Western Panjabi: “گلاسگو”
  • Wu Chinese: “格拉斯哥”
  • Yiddish: “גלאזגא”
  • Yoruba: “Glasgow”
  • Yue Chinese: “格拉斯哥”
  • Zeeuws: “Glasgow”
  • “Glasgow”
  • “Glazgos”

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