Lincoln

Lincoln is a city in the of and the county town of , with a population of 97,541 in 2019. It has a well-preserved medieval centre, with the cathedral, once the tallest building in the world, and castle atop its cobbled Steep Hill.
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  • Type: City with 97,500 residents
  • Description: cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Lincoln, England” and “Lindum Colonia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle.

Church
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, also called Lincoln Minster, and formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, is a cathedral in Lincoln, .

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is a major medieval castle constructed in Lincoln, England, during the late 11th century by William the Conqueror on the site of a pre-existing Roman fortress.

Stadium
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Stadium, known for sponsorship reasons as ProAmpac Stadium, is a football stadium in Lincoln, England, which has been the home of Lincoln City since 1895.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bracebridge Heath and Burton.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the district of , England. It is 2 miles south of Lincoln and straddles the border with the Lincoln and North Kesteven district boundaries.

Village
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is a civil parish in the West Lindsey district of , England. Its core settlement is Burton-by-Lincoln. a village situated approximately 2 miles north of the city of Lincoln.

Hamlet
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is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of , England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 823.

Lincoln

Latitude
53.2294° or 53° 13′ 46″ north
Longitude
-0.5405° or 0° 32′ 26″ west
Population
97,500
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LCN
Open location code
9C5X6FH5+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10671639
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2644487
Wiki­data ID
Q180057
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lincoln” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لنكولن”
  • Arabic: “لينكن”
  • Arabic: “لينكولن”
  • Armenian: “Լինկոլն”
  • Armenian: “Լինքոլն”
  • Asturian: “Lincoln”
  • Basque: “Lincoln”
  • Belarusian: “Лінкальн”
  • Bengali: “লিংকন”
  • Bengali: “লিঙ্কোন, যুক্তরাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “লিঙ্কোন”
  • Breton: “Lincoln”
  • Bulgarian: “Линкълн”
  • Burmese: “ကာလိုင်းမြို့”
  • Burmese: “လင်ကွန်းမြို့၊ အင်္ဂလန်”
  • Catalan: “Lincoln”
  • Cebuano: “Lincoln (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Lincoln”
  • Chinese: “Lincoln”
  • Chinese: “林肯”
  • Chinese: “林肯市”
  • Cornish: “Lincoln”
  • Czech: “Lincoln”
  • Danish: “Lincoln”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lincoln, İngıltere”
  • Dutch: “City of Lincoln”
  • Dutch: “Lincoln”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لنكولن”
  • Esperanto: “Lincoln”
  • Estonian: “Lincoln”
  • Faroese: “Lincoln (Ongland)”
  • Faroese: “Lincoln”
  • Finnish: “Lincoln”
  • French: “Lincoln (England)”
  • French: “Lincoln (Lincolnshire)”
  • French: “Lincoln”
  • Galician: “Lincoln”
  • Georgian: “ლინკოლნი”
  • German: “Lincoln”
  • Greek: “Λίνκολν, Αγγλία”
  • Greek: “Λίνκολν, Λίνκολνσαϊρ”
  • Greek: “Λίνκολν”
  • Gujarati: “લિંકન”
  • Hausa: “Lincoln”
  • Hebrew: “לינקולן”
  • Hindi: “लिंकन”
  • Hungarian: “Lincoln”
  • Icelandic: “Lincoln”
  • Ido: “Lincoln, Lincolnshire”
  • Ido: “Lincoln”
  • Indonesian: “Lincoln, Lincolnshire”
  • Indonesian: “Lincoln”
  • Irish: “Lincoln”
  • Italian: “Lincoln”
  • Japanese: “リンカーン”
  • Japanese: “リンカン”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಂಕನ್”
  • Korean: “링컨”
  • Kurdish: “Lincoln (Lincolnshire)”
  • Kurdish: “Lincoln”
  • Ladin: “Lincoln”
  • Latin: “Lincolnia”
  • Latin: “Lindum”
  • Latvian: “Linkolna”
  • Lithuanian: “Linkolnas”
  • Malay: “Lincoln”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯤꯡꯀꯟ, ꯏꯪꯂꯦꯟ”
  • Maori: “Ringikana”
  • Marathi: “लिंकऌन”
  • Mazanderani: “لینکلن، انگلستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lincoln (Eng-lân)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lincoln (Lincolnshire)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lincoln”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lincoln”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lincoln i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lincoln i Lincolnshire”
  • Norwegian: “Lincoln”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lincoln”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lincoln”
  • Ossetian: “Линкольн (Англис)”
  • Ossetian: “Линкольн”
  • Persian: “لینکلن، انگلستان”
  • Persian: “لینکلن”
  • Polish: “Lincoln”
  • Portuguese: “Lincoln”
  • Quechua: “Lincoln”
  • Romanian: “Lincoln, Lincolnshire”
  • Romanian: “Lincoln”
  • Russian: “Линкольн”
  • Scots: “Lincoln, Ingland”
  • Scots: “Lincoln”
  • Serbian: “Linkoln”
  • Serbian: “Линколн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lincoln, Engleska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lincoln”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Linkoln”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းလိၼ်ႇၵုၼ်း”
  • Silesian: “Lincoln”
  • Sinhala: “ලින්කන්”
  • Slovak: “Lincoln”
  • Slovenian: “Lincoln, Lincolnshire”
  • Slovenian: “Lincoln”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لینکلن، اینگیلیس”
  • Spanish: “Lincoln Inglaterra”
  • Spanish: “Lincoln Lincolnshire”
  • Spanish: “Lincoln”
  • Swedish: “Lincoln, England”
  • Swedish: “Lincoln, Lincolnshire”
  • Swedish: “Lincoln”
  • Tagalog: “Lincoln, Lincolnshire”
  • Tagalog: “Lincoln”
  • Tamil: “லிங்கன்”
  • Tamil: “லின்கான்”
  • Tatar: “Линкольн”
  • Telugu: “లింకన్”
  • Thai: “Lincoln”
  • Thai: “ลิงคอล์น, ลิงคอล์นเชอร์”
  • Thai: “ลิงคอล์น”
  • Turkish: “Lincoln, Lincolnshire”
  • Turkish: “Lincoln”
  • Ukrainian: “Лінкольн”
  • Urdu: “لنکن، انگلستان”
  • Venetian: “Lincoln”
  • Vietnamese: “Lincoln, Anh”
  • Vietnamese: “Lincoln”
  • Volapük: “Lincoln”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lincoln, Lincolnshire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lincoln”
  • Welsh: “Lincoln”
  • Western Frisian: “Lincoln”
  • Wu Chinese: “林肯 (林肯郡)”
  • Wu Chinese: “林肯（林肯郡）”
  • Yiddish: “לינקאלן”
  • Yue Chinese: “林肯”
  • Yue Chinese: “林肯市”
  • “Lincoln”

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