Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a county in the region of . Its traditional capital is the county city of .
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is the largest city and county town of Leicestershire 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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is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is the administrative centre of Charnwood Borough Council and, in the United Kingdom 2021 census, the town's built-up area had a population of 64,884.

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is a town in Leicestershire, close to in neighbouring . It is roughly halfway between the major cities of and .

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, usually referred to locally as just Melton, is a market town in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is famous for the Pork Pie and as the centre of Stilton Cheese production.

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is a market town in Leicestershire, . Castle was an important fort in the 15th to 17th centuries.

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is a market town of 25,000 people on the River Welland in Leicestershire, England.

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is a town in the district in the county of Leicestershire, . The town is situated on the A511 between and .

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is a market village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, on the edge of the National Forest and close to .

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is a village and civil parish in the district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It includes the small hamlets of and Little Wigston.

Leicestershire

Latitude of center
52.6667° or 52° 40′ north
Longitude of center
-1.1141° or 1° 6′ 51″ west
Population
1,030,000
Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)
Geo­Names ID
11609039
Wiki­data ID
Q23106
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Leicestershire” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Leicestershire”
  • Albanian: “Leicestershire”
  • Arabic: “ليسترشير”
  • Aragonese: “Leicestershire”
  • Armenian: “Լեսթերշիր”
  • Armenian: “Լեստերշիր”
  • Asturian: “Leicestershire”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lesterşir”
  • Balinese: “Leicestershire”
  • Basque: “Leicestershire”
  • Bavarian: “Leicestershire”
  • Belarusian: “Графства Лестэршыр”
  • Belarusian: “Лестэршыр”
  • Belarusian: “Лэстэршыр”
  • Bengali: “লিচেস্টারশায়ার”
  • Bosnian: “Leicestershire”
  • Breton: “Leicestershire”
  • Bulgarian: “Лестършър”
  • Catalan: “Leicestershire”
  • Cebuano: “Leicestershire”
  • Chinese: “Leicestershire”
  • Chinese: “李斯特郡”
  • Chinese: “莱斯特郡”
  • Chinese: “萊斯特郡”
  • Chinese: “里斯特郡”
  • Cornish: “Leicestershire”
  • Croatian: “Leicestershire”
  • Czech: “Leicestershire”
  • Danish: “Leicestershire”
  • Dutch: “Leicestershire”
  • Esperanto: “Leicestershire”
  • Estonian: “Leicestershire”
  • Faroese: “Leicestershire”
  • Finnish: “Leicestershire”
  • French: “Leicestershire”
  • Galician: “Leicestershire”
  • Georgian: “ლესტერშირი”
  • German: “Leicestershire”
  • Greek: “Λέστερσιρ”
  • Gujarati: “લીકેસ્ટરશાયર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Leicestershire”
  • Hebrew: “לסטרשייר”
  • Hindi: “लेस्टरशायर”
  • Hungarian: “Leicestershire”
  • Icelandic: “Leicestershire”
  • Ido: “Leicestershire”
  • Indonesian: “Leicestershire”
  • Interlingua: “Leicestershire”
  • Irish: “Leicestershire”
  • Italian: “Leicestershire”
  • Japanese: “レスターシャー”
  • Javanese: “Leicestershire”
  • Kannada: “ಲೈಸೆಸ್ಟರ್ಷೈರ್”
  • Korean: “레스터셔주”
  • Kurdish: “Leicestershire”
  • Ladin: “Leicestershire”
  • Latin: “Leicestriensis comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Lesteršīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Lesteršyras”
  • Low German: “Leicestershire”
  • Luxembourgish: “Leicestershire”
  • Macedonian: “Лестершир”
  • Manx: “Leicestershire”
  • Marathi: “लेस्टरशायर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Leicestershire”
  • Minangkabau: “Leicestershire”
  • Northern Frisian: “Leicestershire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leicestershire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leicestershire”
  • Norwegian: “Leicestershire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Leicestershire”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lægreceastrescir”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lægreċeastresċīr”
  • Ossetian: “Лестершир”
  • Persian: “لسترشایر”
  • Persian: “لسترشر”
  • Polish: “Leicestershire”
  • Portuguese: “Leicestershire”
  • Romanian: “Leicestershire”
  • Romansh: “Leicestershire”
  • Russian: “Лестершир”
  • Scots: “Leicestershire”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Leicester”
  • Serbian: “Лестершир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Leicestershire”
  • Slovak: “Leicestershire”
  • Slovenian: “Leicestershire”
  • Spanish: “Leicestershire”
  • Swedish: “Leicestershire”
  • Swiss German: “Leicestershire”
  • Tajik: “Лестершир”
  • Tamil: “லேய்ஸ்ஸ்டேர்ஸயர்”
  • Telugu: “లెసెస్టర్ షైర్”
  • Thai: “เลสเตอร์เชอร์”
  • Turkish: “Leicestershire”
  • Turkish: “Torensel Leicestershire Kontluğu”
  • Ukrainian: “Лестершир”
  • Urdu: “لیسٹرشائر”
  • Venetian: “contea de Leicester”
  • Vietnamese: “Leicestershire”
  • Volapük: “Leicestershire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Leicestershire”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Gaerlŷr”
  • Western Frisian: “Leicestershire”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیسسٹرشائر”
  • Wu Chinese: “莱斯特郡”
  • Yiddish: “לעסטערשיר”
  • Yue Chinese: “李斯特郡”
  • Yue Chinese: “里斯特郡”
  • “Leicestershire”

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