Luton
Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, some 35 mi north of London. It's a multicultural town with a population of about 200,000. It used to have a straw and hat-making trade, hence "The Hatters" nickname of Luton football club; a couple of factories remain along the Old Bedford Road.
- Type: Town with 203,000 residents
- Description: large town in Bedfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Luton Urban”, “Luton, Bedfordshire”, “لاوٹن”, “લ્યુટન”, “లుటన్”, and “ల్యూటన్”
- Neighbors: Dunstable and Hemel Hempstead
Places of Interest
Highlights: Luton Airport and Kenilworth Road.
Luton Airport
Aerodrome
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Round Green and Wigmore.
Wigmore
Suburb
Wigmore is a suburb of Luton about 2 miles east… Wigmore is situated 2 miles northeast of Luton.
Leagrave
Suburb
Luton
- Category: locality
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.8784° or 51° 52′ 42″ north
Longitude
-0.4153° or 0° 24′ 55″ west
Population
203,000
Elevation
384 feet (117 metres)
Open location code
9C3XVHHM+9V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Luton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوتن”
- Aragonese: “Luton”
- Armenian: “Լութոն”
- Asturian: “Luton”
- Azerbaijani: “Luton”
- Bashkir: “Лутон”
- Basque: “Luton”
- Belarusian: “Лутан”
- Bengali: “লুটন”
- Bulgarian: “Лутън”
- Catalan: “Luton”
- Cebuano: “Luton”
- Chinese: “卢顿”
- Chinese: “盧頓”
- Chinese: “魯頓”
- Czech: “Luton”
- Danish: “Luton”
- Dutch: “Luton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوتن”
- Esperanto: “Luton”
- Esperanto: “Lutono”
- Finnish: “Luton”
- French: “Luton”
- Galician: “Luton”
- German: “Luton”
- Greek: “Λούτον”
- Gujarati: “લ્યુટોન”
- Hebrew: “לוטון”
- Hungarian: “Luton”
- Icelandic: “Luton”
- Indonesian: “Luton”
- Irish: “Luton”
- Italian: “Luton”
- Japanese: “ルートン”
- Kannada: “ಲುಟನ್”
- Korean: “루턴”
- Kurdish: “Luton”
- Ladin: “Luton”
- Latin: “Lutonia”
- Latvian: “Lūtona”
- Lithuanian: “Lutonas”
- Luxembourgish: “Luton”
- Macedonian: “Лутон”
- Malagasy: “Luton”
- Malay: “Luton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Luton”
- Moksha: “Лутон”
- Northern Frisian: “Luton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luton”
- Norwegian: “Luton”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Luton”
- Ossetian: “Лутон”
- Persian: “لوتن”
- Persian: “لوتون”
- Polish: “Luton”
- Portuguese: “Luton”
- Quechua: “Luton”
- Romanian: “Luton”
- Russian: “Лутон”
- Scots: “Luton”
- Serbian: “Luton”
- Serbian: “Лутон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Luton”
- Silesian: “Luton”
- Slovak: “Luton”
- Slovenian: “Luton”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوتون”
- Spanish: “Luton”
- Swahili: “Luton”
- Swedish: “Luton”
- Tajik: “Лутон”
- Tamil: “லூடன்”
- Tatar: “Лутон”
- Telugu: “లూటన్”
- Thai: “ลูตัน”
- Turkish: “Luton”
- Ukrainian: “Лутон”
- Urdu: “لوٹن”
- Vietnamese: “Luton”
- Volapük: “Luton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Luton”
- Welsh: “Luton”
- Wu Chinese: “卢顿”
- Yiddish: “לוטאן”
- Yue Chinese: “盧頓”
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