Leicester

Leicester is the largest city and county town of in the East Midlands of England. With a population of 388,000 in 2024, it's industrial, with a heritage spanning from Roman times to the Space Age.
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  • City with 306,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 213 feet (65 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code QEW
  • Description: city in Leicestershire, East Midlands, England
  • Also known as
    “Leicester, England”
    “Leiscester”

Places of Interest

Highlights include King Power Stadium and Leicester Cathedral.
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is a football stadium located…
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The Cathedral Church of Saint Martin, Leicester, also…
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Leicester is a main line railway station that serves…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Evington and Braunstone Town.
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Braunstone is a town and civil parish in the district of Blaby in Leicestershire, England.
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Leicester

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Latitude
52.6362° or 52° 38′ 10″ north
Longitude
-1.1332° or 1° 7′ 60″ west
Open location code
9C4WJVP8+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10021976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2644668
Wiki­data ID
Q83065

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Leicester” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Leicester”
  • Afrikaans: “Leicester”
  • Arabic: “لايستر”
  • Arabic: “لستر”
  • Arabic: “ليستر”
  • Aragonese: “Leicester”
  • Armenian: “Լեսթեր”
  • Asturian: “Leicester”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lester”
  • Balinese: “Leicester”
  • Basque: “Leicester”
  • Belarusian: “Лестэр”
  • Belarusian: “Лэстэр”
  • Bengali: “লেস্টার”
  • Bosnian: “Leicester”
  • Breton: “Kerlir / Leicester”
  • Breton: “Leicester”
  • Bulgarian: “Лестър”
  • Bulgarian: “Лечестър”
  • Catalan: “Leicester”
  • Cebuano: “Leicester (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Leicester”
  • Central Kurdish: “لێستەر”
  • Chinese: “李斯特城”
  • Chinese: “莱切斯特”
  • Chinese: “莱切斯特郡”
  • Chinese: “莱斯特”
  • Chinese: “莱设斯特”
  • Chinese: “萊設斯特”
  • Croatian: “Leicester”
  • Czech: “Leicester”
  • Danish: “Leicester”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Leicester”
  • Dutch: “Leicester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليستر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة ليستر”
  • Emilian: “Leicester”
  • Esperanto: “Lecestro”
  • Esperanto: “Leicester”
  • Estonian: “Leicester”
  • Faroese: “Leicester”
  • Finnish: “Leicester”
  • French: “Leicester”
  • Galician: “Leicester”
  • Georgian: “ლესტერი”
  • German: “Leicester”
  • Greek: “Λέστερ, Αγγλία”
  • Greek: “Λέστερ, Ανατολικά Μίντλαντς”
  • Greek: “Λέστερ, Λέστερσαϊρ”
  • Greek: “Λέστερ”
  • Gujarati: “લિસેસ્ટર”
  • Gujarati: “લેસ્ટર”
  • Hausa: “Leicester”
  • Hebrew: “לסטר”
  • Hindi: “लीसेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Leicester”
  • Icelandic: “Leicester”
  • Ido: “Leicester”
  • Indonesian: “Leicester”
  • Irish: “Leicester”
  • Italian: “Leicester”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Lesta”
  • Japanese: “レスター・ギャラリーズ”
  • Japanese: “レスター”
  • Jèrriais: “Leichêtre”
  • Kannada: “ಲೀಸೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Lecester”
  • Kirghiz: “Лестер шаары”
  • Korean: “레스터”
  • Kurdish: “Leicester”
  • Ladin: “Leicester”
  • Latin: “Leicestria”
  • Latin: “Ratae Corieltauvorum”
  • Latin: “Ratae Coritanorum”
  • Latvian: “Leicester”
  • Latvian: “Leičestera”
  • Latvian: “Lestera”
  • Lithuanian: “Leicester”
  • Lithuanian: “Leičesteris”
  • Lithuanian: “Lesteris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Leicester”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Leicester”
  • Macedonian: “Лестер”
  • Malagasy: “Leicester”
  • Malay: “Leicester”
  • Maltese: “Leicester”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯩꯀꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯔ”
  • Marathi: “लेस्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “لستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Leicester”
  • Moksha: “Лэстэр”
  • Northern Frisian: “Leicester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leicester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leicester i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leicester”
  • Norwegian: “Leicester”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Leicester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lægreceaster”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ligereceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Лестер”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੈਸਟਰ”
  • Persian: “لستر”
  • Polish: “Leicester”
  • Portuguese: “Leicester”
  • Pushto: “لسټر”
  • Quechua: “Leicester”
  • Romanian: “Leicester”
  • Russian: “Leicester”
  • Russian: “Лейчестер”
  • Russian: “Лестер”
  • Scots: “Leicester”
  • Serbian: “Leicester”
  • Serbian: “Лестер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Leicester”
  • Silesian: “Leicester”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Leicester”
  • Slovenian: “Leicester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لستر”
  • Spanish: “Leicester”
  • Swahili: “Leicester”
  • Swedish: “Leicester”
  • Tagalog: “Leicester”
  • Talysh: “Lester”
  • Tamil: “லீசெஸ்டர்”
  • Tamil: “லெஸ்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Лестер”
  • Telugu: “లీసెస్టర్”
  • Telugu: “లేస్టర్”
  • Thai: “เลสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Leicester”
  • Twi: “Leicester”
  • Uighur: “Léyséstér”
  • Uighur: “لېيسېستېر”
  • Ukrainian: “Лестер”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Leicester”
  • Urdu: “لیسٹر”
  • Venetian: “Leicester”
  • Veps: “Lester”
  • Vietnamese: “Leicester”
  • Volapük: “Leicester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Leicester”
  • Welsh: “Caerlyr”
  • Welsh: “Caerlŷr”
  • Welsh: “Leicester”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیسسٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “莱斯特”
  • Yiddish: “לעסטער”
  • Yue Chinese: “李斯特城”

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