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Leicester

Leicester is the largest city in the region of , the capital of the traditional county of , with a population of almost 370,000 in the city and 510,000 in the urban area.
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  • Type: City with 306,000 residents
  • Description: city in Leicestershire, East Midlands, England
  • Also known as: “Leicester, England” and “Leiscester”

Places of Interest

Highlights include King Power Stadium and Leicester Cathedral.

Stadium
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is a football stadium located in the city of Leicester, , England, and the home of Leicester City. The stadium opened in 2002 as the Walkers Stadium and has a capacity of 32,259.

Church
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The Cathedral Church of Saint Martin, Leicester, commonly known as , is a Church of England cathedral in Leicester, England, and the seat of the Bishop of Leicester.

Railway station
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is a main line railway station in the city of Leicester, in , England. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway and owned by Network Rail.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Braunstone Town and Belgrave.

Village
Photo: Leeclarke1981, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Braunstone is a town and civil parish in the district of Blaby in Leicestershire, England. At the 2011 census the population of the town was 16,850. Braunstone is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, giving a population of "two sokemen and four villeins".

Suburb
is an area, suburb, electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, in the ceremonial county of , England. is the location of and known for several notable and famous landmarks such as the , Space Park Leicester, , the Golden Mile and .

Suburb
was an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, , consisting of the residential suburb of St Marks.

Leicester

Latitude
52.6362° or 52° 38′ 10″ north
Longitude
-1.1332° or 1° 7′ 60″ west
Population
306,000
Elevation
213 feet (65 metres)
IATA airport code
QEW
Open location code
9C4WJVP8+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10021976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2644668
Wiki­data ID
Q83065
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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: “Leicester”
  • 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: “مدينه ليستر”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Malay: “Leicester”
  • Maltese: “Leicester”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯩꯀꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯔ”
  • Marathi: “लेस्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “لستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Leicester”
  • Moksha: “Лэстэр”
  • Narom: “Leichêtre”
  • 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”
  • “Leicester”

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