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Soho is a district of central , part of the West End, famous for jazz, its gay village, sex shops and alternative lifestyles.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Leicester Square and Royal Opera House.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

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.

Art gallery
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The is an art museum in in the , in , England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mayfair-Marylebone and Bloomsbury.

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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.

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is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of , and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.

Soho

Latitude
51.51407° or 51° 30′ 51″ north
Longitude
-0.13505° or 0° 8′ 6″ west
Population
19,600
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGV77+JX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3937580110
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6545173
Wiki­data ID
Q124010
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Soho” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Soho”
  • Arabic: “سوهو، لندن”
  • Arabic: “سوهو”
  • Armenian: “Սոհո”
  • Basque: “Soho”
  • Belarusian: “Соха”
  • Bulgarian: “Сохо”
  • Catalan: “Soho”
  • Central Kurdish: “سۆھۆ”
  • Chinese: “Soho”
  • Chinese: “伦敦苏活区”
  • Chinese: “倫敦蘇活區”
  • Chinese: “倫敦蘇荷區”
  • Chinese: “倫敦蘇豪區”
  • Chinese: “苏活区”
  • Chinese: “蘇活區”
  • Chinese: “蘇豪”
  • Chinese: “蘇豪區”
  • Czech: “Soho”
  • Danish: “Soho”
  • Dutch: “Soho”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوهو, لندن”
  • Esperanto: “Soho”
  • Finnish: “Soho”
  • French: “Soho”
  • German: “Soho”
  • Greek: “Σόχο”
  • Hebrew: “סוהו”
  • Hindi: “सोहो”
  • Hungarian: “Soho”
  • Indonesian: “Soho”
  • Irish: “Soho”
  • Italian: “Soho”
  • Japanese: “ソーホー”
  • Korean: “소호”
  • Latvian: “Soho”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Soho”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Soho”
  • Norwegian: “Soho”
  • Persian: “Soho”
  • Persian: “سوهو در لندن”
  • Persian: “سوهو”
  • Polish: “Soho”
  • Portuguese: “Soho”
  • Russian: “Soho”
  • Russian: “Сохо”
  • Serbian: “Soho”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Soho”
  • Slovak: “Soho”
  • Slovenian: “Soho”
  • Spanish: “Soho”
  • Swedish: “Soho, London”
  • Swedish: “Soho”
  • Thai: “โซโฮ”
  • Turkish: “Soho”
  • Ukrainian: “Сохо”
  • Urdu: “سوہو، لندن”
  • Vietnamese: “Soho”
  • Welsh: “Soho, Llundain”
  • Welsh: “Soho”

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