Hackney
Hackney is a borough of London. Located to the northeast of the City of London, Hackney has a diverse population and the area has undergone massive regeneration in recent decades.
- Type: Locality with 274,000 residents
- Description: borough in the London Region in England
- Also known as: “Borgo londinese di Hackney”, “Borough de Hackney”, “Burgul londonez Hackney”, “De Beauvoir Town”, “GB-HCK”, “Hackney (bwrdeistref)”, “Hackney (unparished area)”, “Hackney Wick”, “Haggerston”, “Hoxton”, “Londen Borough of Hackney”, “London Borough de Hackney”, “London Borough of Hackney”, “Stoke Newington”, “Upper Clapton”, “Хэкни”, “הקני”, “רובע האקני”, “רובע האקני של העיר לונדון”, “רובע האקני של לונדון”, “רובע לונדון של האקני”, and “哈克尼，倫敦”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Museum of the Home and Hoxton railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Islington and City of London.
Hackney
- Categories: London borough and unparished area
- Location: Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.53333° or 51° 32′ north
Longitude
-0.08333° or 0° 5′ west
Population
274,000
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
Abbreviation
“HCK”
Open location code
9C3XGWM8+8M
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Hackney” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Arabic: “حي هكني في لندن”
- Armenian: “Հակնի”
- Azerbaijani: “Hakni”
- Basque: “Hackney”
- Belarusian: “Гакні”
- Belarusian: “Хакні”
- Breton: “Hackney”
- Catalan: “Hackney”
- Cebuano: “Hackney”
- Chinese: “哈克尼”
- Chinese: “哈克尼倫敦自治市”
- Chinese: “哈克尼区”
- Chinese: “哈克尼區”
- Chinese: “赫尼區”
- Czech: “Hackney”
- Danish: “Hackney”
- Dutch: “Hackney”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حى هاكنى فى لندن”
- Esperanto: “Hackney”
- Estonian: “Hackney”
- Finnish: “Hackney”
- French: “borough londonien de Hackney”
- French: “Borough londonien de Hackney”
- French: “Hackney”
- Galician: “Hackney”
- Georgian: “ჰაკნი”
- German: “Hackney”
- German: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Greek: “Χάκνεϊ”
- Hebrew: “האקני”
- Hindi: “हैकनी बरो”
- Hungarian: “Hackney kerület”
- Hungarian: “Hackney”
- Icelandic: “Hackney”
- Irish: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Italian: “Hackney”
- Italian: “Municipio di Hackney”
- Japanese: “ハックニー・ロンドン特別区”
- Japanese: “ハックニー区”
- Japanese: “ハックニー特別区”
- Korean: “해크니구”
- Latin: “Hakeneia”
- Latvian: “Hekni”
- Macedonian: “Хакни”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hackney (koān)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hackney”
- Northern Frisian: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hackney”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Norwegian: “Hackney”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hacanieg se Lunden Burgscipe”
- Persian: “منطقه هکنی لندن”
- Polish: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Portuguese: “Hackney”
- Romanian: “Hackney”
- Russian: “Хакни”
- Scots: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Scots: “Lunnon Burgh o Hackney”
- Serbian: “Лондонска општина Хекни”
- Serbian: “Лондоска општина Хекни”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hackney”
- Slovenian: “Hackney”
- South Azerbaijani: “هکنی لندن منطقهسی”
- Spanish: “Hackney”
- Swedish: “London Borough of Hackney”
- Tagalog: “Hackney”
- Tajik: “Ҳакний”
- Tatar: “Һакни”
- Turkish: “Hackney”
- Ukrainian: “Гекні”
- Urdu: “لندن بورو ہیکنی”
- Urdu: “ہیکنی بورو”
- Vietnamese: “Khu Hackney của Luân Đôn”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Llundain Hackney”
- Welsh: “Hackney”
- Western Frisian: “Hackney”
- Western Panjabi: “ہیکنی”
- Yiddish: “לאנדאנער בארא פון האקני”
- Yiddish: “לאנדאנער בארא פון העקני”
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