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Kingston

Kingston is one of the most historic cities in Canada with many churches, old buildings, picturesque neighbourhoods, and 19th-century fortifications. The city provides venues for nightlife such as clubbing and pubbing, and provides weekend escapes for people living in the neighbouring cities of , and .
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  • Type: City with 123,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ontario, Canada
  • Also known as: “Kingston, ON” and “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Historically known as: “Cataraqui”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal Military College of Canada and Murney Tower.

University
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The , abbreviated in English as RMC and in French as CMR, is a military academy and, since 1959, a degree-granting university of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Museum
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is a in Kingston, , , whose construction dates to January 1846. The Tower was built in response to the Oregon Crisis, which was a tense dispute over the border between British North America and the United States in the 1840s.

Military installation
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was a French trading post and military fort built in July 1673 at the mouth of the where the St. Lawrence River leaves , in a location traditionally known as Cataraqui.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include University District and Cartwright Point.

Neighborhood
The is a neighbourhood in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It encompasses and surrounds Queen's University and is largely inhabited by students and employees of the university.

Neighborhood
is a cape and in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Located east of the city's downtown along the St. Lawrence River in the former Pittsburgh Township, it is bordered by Deadman Bay on its western side, and faces Wolfe Island on its southeastern side.

Neighborhood
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Village is a formerly incorporated village in which was annexed to become a of Kingston, , in 1952. The village was founded in 1784 by United Empire Loyalists.

Kingston

Latitude
44.2307° or 44° 13′ 51″ north
Longitude
-76.4813° or 76° 28′ 53″ west
Population
123,000
Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)
IATA airport code
YGK
United Nations Location Code
CA KIN
Open location code
87P56GJ9+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3128734246
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5992500
Wiki­data ID
Q202973
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kingston” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Afrikaans: “Kingston”
  • Albanian: “Kingston”
  • Arabic: “Kingston”
  • Arabic: “كينغستن”
  • Arabic: “كينغستون، اونتاريو”
  • Arabic: “كينغستون”
  • Aragonese: “Kingston”
  • Armenian: “Կինգստոն”
  • Armenian: “Քինգստոն”
  • Asturian: “Kingston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kinqston”
  • Basque: “Kingston”
  • Belarusian: “Кінгстан”
  • Bengali: “কিংস্টন”
  • Bosnian: “Kingston”
  • Breton: “Kingston”
  • Bulgarian: “Кингстън”
  • Catalan: “Kingston”
  • Cebuano: “Kingston”
  • Central Kurdish: “کینگستۆن، ئانتاریۆ”
  • Chechen: “Кингстон”
  • Chinese: “京士頓”
  • Chinese: “金斯敦”
  • Chinese: “金斯頓”
  • Chinese: “金斯顿”
  • Chuvash: “Кингстон (Онтарио)”
  • Chuvash: “Кингстон”
  • Croatian: “Kingston”
  • Czech: “Kingston”
  • Danish: “Kingston”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kingston”
  • Dutch: “Kingston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كينجستون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه كينجستون”
  • Esperanto: “Kingston”
  • Estonian: “Kingston”
  • Finnish: “Kingston”
  • French: “Kingston”
  • Galician: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Galician: “Kingston”
  • Georgian: “კინგსტონი”
  • German: “Kingston”
  • Greek: “Κίνγκστον”
  • Gujarati: “કિંગ્સટન”
  • Hebrew: “קינגסטון”
  • Hebrew: “קנזינגטון”
  • Hindi: “किंग्स्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Kingston”
  • Icelandic: “Kingston”
  • Indonesian: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Indonesian: “Kingston”
  • Irish: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Irish: “Kingston”
  • Italian: “Kingston”
  • Japanese: “キングストン”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಂಗ್‌ಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кингстон”
  • Kirghiz: “Кингстон”
  • Korean: “킹스턴”
  • Kurdish: “Kingston”
  • Latvian: “Kingstona”
  • Lithuanian: “Kingstonas”
  • Lombard: “Kingston”
  • Low German: “Kingston”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kingston”
  • Malagasy: “Kingston”
  • Malay: “Kingston”
  • Manx: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Manx: “Kingston”
  • Marathi: “किंग्सटन”
  • Mongolian: “Кингстон”
  • Nepali: “किङ्सटन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kingston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kingston”
  • Norwegian: “Kingston”
  • Ossetian: “Кингстон”
  • Persian: “کینگستون، انتاریو”
  • Persian: “کینگستون”
  • Piemontese: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Piemontese: “Kingston”
  • Polish: “Kingston”
  • Portuguese: “Kingston”
  • Romanian: “Kingston”
  • Russian: “Кингстон (Онтарио)”
  • Russian: “Кингстон”
  • Serbian: “Kingston”
  • Serbian: “Кингстон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kingston”
  • Silesian: “Kingston”
  • Sinhala: “කින්ග්ස්ටනය”
  • Slovak: “Kingston”
  • Slovenian: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Slovenian: “Kingston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کینقزتون، اونتاریو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کینقزتون”
  • Spanish: “Kingston (Ontario)”
  • Spanish: “Kingston”
  • Swahili: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Swahili: “Kingston”
  • Swedish: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Swedish: “Kingston”
  • Swiss German: “Kingston”
  • Tagalog: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Tagalog: “Kingston”
  • Tajik: “Кингстаун”
  • Tamil: “கிங்க்ஸ்டன், ஓன்டேரியோ”
  • Tatar: “Киңстон (Канада)”
  • Tatar: “Киңстон”
  • Telugu: “కింగ్స్టన్”
  • Thai: “คิงส์ตัน”
  • Turkish: “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Turkish: “Kingston”
  • Turkmen: “Kingston”
  • Ukrainian: “Кінгстон (Онтаріо)”
  • Ukrainian: “Кінгстон”
  • Urdu: “کنگسٹن، اونٹاریو”
  • Uzbek: “Kingston”
  • Venetian: “Kingston”
  • Vietnamese: “Kingston”
  • Volapük: “Kingston”
  • Walloon: “Kingston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kingston, Ontario”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kingston”
  • Welsh: “Kingston”
  • Western Panjabi: “کنگسٹن(کینیڈا)”
  • Western Panjabi: “کنگسٹن”
  • Yue Chinese: “京士頓”

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