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Leicester Square

The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: square in London, United Kingdom
  • Neighbors:
  • Wheelchair access: yes
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Places of Interest

Highlights include London Eye and Royal Opera House.

Ferris wheel
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The , originally the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the of the in London. It is the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually.

Arts center
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The is a theatre in , . The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site.

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is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower which stands at the north end of the in London, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Bank and Mayfair-Marylebone.

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The is on a sharp 90° bend of the Thames in central and one of the city's cultural centres. It is a small area but it contains many artistic and creative sites, as well as an eclectic range of other attractions, boutique shopping and trendy food and drink places.

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Mayfair and Marylebone are districts of central . Together they cover a large area of western central London, encompassing the whole of Mayfair and Piccadilly to the south and the area from Oxford Street through Marylebone to Regent's Park and the border with St John's Wood to the north.

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This article is about three neighbourhoods of central : , St Pancras and Fitzrovia. is the hub of London's university district, is home to the British Museum and is next to the British Library.

Leicester Square

Latitude
51.51044° or 51° 30′ 38″ north
Longitude
-0.13013° or 0° 7′ 49″ west
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGV69+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4082589
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
11777625
Wiki­data ID
Q848912
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Satellite Map

Discover Leicester Square from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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: “李斯特廣場”
  • 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”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Leicester Square”. Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.