Leicester Square
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
- Park
- …lies at an elevation of 102 feet (31 metres)
- …is wheelchair accessible
- …is named after Leicester House
- Opening hours: sunrise–sunset
- Description: square in London, United Kingdom
- Neighbors: Covent Garden
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Mattimeus, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights include London Eye and Big Ben.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Bank and Mayfair-Marylebone.
Bloomsbury
This article is about three neighbourhoods of central London: Bloomsbury, St Pancras and Fitzrovia.
Leicester Square
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Latitude
51.51044° or 51° 30′ 38″ north
Longitude
-0.13013° or 0° 7′ 49″ west
Open location code
9C3XGV69+5W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Leicester Square” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليستر سكوير”
- Basque: “Leicester Square”
- Catalan: “Leicester Square”
- Chinese: “莱斯特广场”
- Chinese: “萊斯特廣場”
- Czech: “Leicester Square”
- Danish: “Leicester Square”
- Dutch: “Leicester Square”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليستر سكوير”
- Esperanto: “Placo Leicester”
- Finnish: “Leicester Square”
- French: “Leicester Square”
- Galician: “Leicester Square”
- German: “Leicester Square”
- Greek: “Πλατεία Λέστερ”
- Hebrew: “אזור כיכר לסטר”
- Hebrew: “כיכר לסטר”
- Hebrew: “לסטר סקוור”
- Icelandic: “Leicester Square”
- Indonesian: “Lapangan Leicester”
- Irish: “Cearnóg Leicester”
- Italian: “Leicester Square”
- Japanese: “レスター・スクウェア”
- Japanese: “レスター・スクエア”
- Japanese: “レスタースクウェア”
- Japanese: “レスタースクエア”
- Korean: “레스터 광장”
- Lithuanian: “Lesterio aikštė”
- Malay: “Dataran Leicester”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leicester Square”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leicester Square”
- Norwegian: “Leicester Square”
- Persian: “میدان لستر”
- Polish: “Leicester Square”
- Portuguese: “Leicester Square”
- Russian: “Лестер-сквер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Leicester Square”
- Sicilian: “Leicester Square”
- Slovak: “Leicester Square”
- Spanish: “Leicester Square”
- Swedish: “Leicester Square”
- Turkish: “Leicester Meydanı”
- Urdu: “لیسٹر اسکوائر”
- Welsh: “Sgwâr Leicester”
- Yue Chinese: “Leicester Square”
- Yue Chinese: “李斯特廣場”
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