Holywood

Holywood is a town five miles northeast of Belfast. It's historically in , but since 2015 has been governed as part of Ards and North Down District, along with Bangor and Newtownards.
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  • Type: Town with 13,100 residents
  • Description: town in the metropolitan area of Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Also known as: “Ard Mhic Neasca”, “Holywood, County Down”, “Холиууд”, “Хоулиууд”, “ארד ויץ‘ נסקה”, and “ハリウッド”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Marino railway station and Holywood railway station.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the…

Railway station
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serves Holywood in , Northern Ireland.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the…

Holywood

Latitude
54.6404° or 54° 38′ 26″ north
Longitude
-5.8362° or 5° 50′ 10″ west
Population
13,100
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB YLW
Open location code
9C6PJ5R7+5G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267762830
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646670
Wiki­data ID
Q1625366
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Holywood” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Holywood”
  • Arabic: “هوليوود”
  • Armenian: “Հոլիվուդ”
  • Asturian: “Holywood”
  • Basque: “Holywood”
  • Belarusian: “Холівуд”
  • Bulgarian: “Холиуд”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоулиуд”
  • Catalan: “Holywood”
  • Cebuano: “Holywood”
  • Chinese: “霍利伍德”
  • Dutch: “Holywood”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هوليوود”
  • Esperanto: “Holivudo”
  • French: “Holywood”
  • Galician: “Holywood”
  • German: “Holywood”
  • Greek: “Χόλυγουντ, Βορεια Ιρλανδία”
  • Hebrew: “הוליווד (צפון אירלנד)”
  • Hebrew: “הוליווד”
  • Irish: “Ard Mhic Nasca”
  • Italian: “Holywood”
  • Japanese: “ホリーウッド”
  • Malay: “Holywood”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Holywood”
  • Polish: “Holywood”
  • Russian: “Холивуд”
  • Scots: “Halywid”
  • Spanish: “Holywood”
  • Swedish: “Holywood”
  • Tamil: “ஹொலிவூட்”
  • Urdu: “ہولی ووڈ، کاؤنٹی ڈاؤن”

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