Lancashire
A visit to Lancashire, a county in North West England, can take you from the glitz and excitement of Blackpool's piers and pleasure beach, to pensive walls through silent moors, to explore the rich industrial heritage of its mills and working museums, or along the trail of England’s most-famous witches across Lancaster and Pendle.
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Top destinations: Blackpool and Blackburn.
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Lancashire
- Type: Region with 1,490,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in North-West England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Lancashire”, “Lancashire, England”, “Lancastershire”, “Lancs”, “Lankastrio”, “Törensel Lancashire Kontluğu”, “لانكشاير”, and “لانكشير”
- Neighbors: Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, North Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
53.8433° or 53° 50′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
-2.63° or 2° 37′ 48″ west
Population
1,490,000
Elevation
381 feet (116 metres)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lancashire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lancashire”
- Arabic: “لانكشر”
- Armenian: “Լանքաշիր”
- Asturian: “Lancashire”
- Azerbaijani: “Lankaşir”
- Balinese: “Lancashire”
- Basque: “Lancashire”
- Bavarian: “Lancashire”
- Belarusian: “Ланкашыр”
- Bengali: “ল্যাঙ্কাশায়ার”
- Breton: “Lancashire”
- Bulgarian: “Ланкашър”
- Catalan: “Lancashire”
- Cebuano: “Lancashire”
- Central Kurdish: “لانکاشایر”
- Chechen: “Ланкашир”
- Chinese: “兰开夏郡”
- Chinese: “蘭開夏”
- Chinese: “蘭開夏郡”
- Cornish: “Lancashire”
- Czech: “Lancashire”
- Danish: “Lancashire”
- Dutch: “Lancashire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لانكاشير”
- Esperanto: “Lankaŝiro”
- Estonian: “Lancashire”
- Finnish: “Lancashire”
- French: “Lancashire”
- Galician: “Lancashire”
- Georgian: “ლანკაშირი”
- German: “Lancashire”
- Greek: “Λάνκασιρ”
- Gujarati: “લન્કાશાયર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lancashire”
- Hebrew: “לנקשייר”
- Hindi: “लैंकाशिर”
- Hungarian: “Lancashire”
- Icelandic: “Lancashire”
- Ido: “Lancashire”
- Indonesian: “Lancashire”
- Interlingua: “Lancashire”
- Irish: “Lancashire”
- Italian: “Lancashire”
- Japanese: “ランカシャー”
- Kannada: “ಲಂಕಾಷೈರ್”
- Korean: “랭커셔주”
- Kurdish: “Lancashire”
- Ladin: “Lancashire”
- Latin: “Lancastriensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Lankašīra”
- Lithuanian: “Lankašyras”
- Low German: “Lancashire”
- Luxembourgish: “Lancashire”
- Macedonian: “Ланкашир”
- Malay: “Lancashire”
- Manx: “Lancashire”
- Marathi: “लँकेशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lancashire”
- Northern Frisian: “Lancashire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lancashire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lancashire”
- Norwegian: “Lancashire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lancashire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lonceasterscīr”
- Ossetian: “Ланкашир”
- Persian: “لانکاشایر”
- Persian: “لانکاشر”
- Polish: “Lancashire”
- Portuguese: “Lancashire”
- Romanian: “Lancashire”
- Russian: “Ланкашир”
- Scots: “Lancashire”
- Serbian: “Ланкашир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lancashire”
- Sindhi: “لنڪاشائر”
- Slovak: “Lancashire”
- Slovenian: “Lancashire”
- Spanish: “Lancashire”
- Swedish: “Lancashire”
- Tajik: “Ланкашир”
- Tamil: “லேன்கஷீர்”
- Telugu: “లాంక్షైర్”
- Thai: “แลงคาเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Lancashire”
- Ukrainian: “Ланкашир”
- Urdu: “لنکاشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Lanca”
- Vietnamese: “Lancashire”
- Vlaams: “Lancashire”
- Volapük: “Lancashire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lancashire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
- Western Panjabi: “لنکاشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “兰开夏”
- Yiddish: “לאנקאשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “蘭開夏郡”
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