Manchester

Manchester is a vibrant, post-industrial gem at the heart of . The city that used to be nicknamed 'Cottonopolis' has hung up its clogs and, thanks to successive regeneration projects, is now a major centre for culture and commerce; seen by many as the capital of the north of , and sometimes regarded as England's second city.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Manchester Airport and Victoria-Shopping District.

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is one of the busiest and largest airports in Europe. The airport is in the south of Manchester, in the and is an excellent gateway to the north of the United Kingdom.

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This covers the area in central Manchester north of Piccadilly Gardens and east of Bridge St and Princess St, served by Victoria railway station. It covers the locales of the Millennium Quarter and St.

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is the area in Manchester that covers Chinatown, the Gay Village, and Piccadilly Gardens. It is bounded by the A57, Oxford Road, and the A62.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Castlefield-Petersfield and Universities.

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covers the area in central Manchester west of Quay St, Peter St, and Oxford St. It covers the locales of Castlefield and Petersfield, which are within the Historic County Boundaries of .

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The Corridor is in the south of Manchester. It covers the corridor around the Oxford Road and the Wilmslow Road, from the A57 south down through Rusholme to Fallowfield and the areas immediately either side bounded by the A34 and A5103.

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covers the four areas of Salford Quays, Trafford Wharf, Old Trafford and Trafford Centre to the west of Manchester city centre.

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covers the area in central Manchester north of Castlefield, east of Quay St and Peter St and west of St Peter's Square. It covers the locales of central Deansgate, Albert Square, as well as the newly developed business district of Spinningfields, and is focussed upon the heart of the city centre.

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is the area of Manchester north of the centre bounded by the M60, the A6, and A57. The main area of interest is just north of Victoria railway station, along the Cheetham Hill and New Bury roads.

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covers the south of Manchester as far south as the M60. It lies within The Historic County Boundaries of . It contains amongst others, the following neighbourhoods:…
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Places of Interest

Highlights include City of Manchester Stadium and Manchester Arena.

Stadium
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The Etihad Stadium is the home of Premier League club Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 61,038, making it the 6th-largest football stadium in England and 8th-largest stadium in the .

Stadium
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is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the and partly above Manchester Victoria railway station in air rights space.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in the area of , England. It is the home ground of Manchester United. With a capacity of 74,158, it is the largest club football stadium in the United Kingdom, and the eleventh-largest in Europe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Salford and Moss Side.

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is a city in in northwest England, with a population of 130,000 in 2021. It's separated from the City of Manchester by a loop of the River Irwell. Its biggest attraction is the Quays, but this area is described on a separate page.

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is an inner-city area of Manchester, England, 1.9 miles south of the . It had a population of 20,745 at the 2021 census. is bounded by to the north, , and to the east, to the south, and to the west.

Suburb
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is an area of Manchester, England, one mile southeast of the . The population at the 2011 census was 19,250. Historically in , by the mid-nineteenth century had grown from being a village into a pleasant and wealthy suburb of Manchester, but by the end of that century became heavily industrialised.

Manchester

Latitude
53.4798° or 53° 28′ 47″ north
Longitude
-2.2428° or 2° 14′ 34″ west
Population
503,000
Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)
IATA airport code
MAN
United Nations Location Code
GB MNC
Open location code
9C5VFQH4+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 294001443
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2643123
Wiki­data ID
Q18125
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Manchester” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Manchester”
  • Albanian: “Mançester”
  • Amharic: “ማንችስተር”
  • Arabic: “مانشستر”
  • Aragonese: “Manchester”
  • Armenian: “Մանչեսթեր”
  • Armenian: “Մանչեստր”
  • Asturian: “Manchester”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mançester”
  • Azerbaijani: “منچئستئر”
  • Balinese: “Manchester”
  • Bashkir: “Манчестер”
  • Basque: “Manchester”
  • Belarusian: “Манчэстэр”
  • Bengali: “ম্যানচেস্টার”
  • Bosnian: “Manchester”
  • Breton: “Manchester”
  • Bulgarian: “Манчестър”
  • Burmese: “မန်ချက်စတာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Manchester”
  • Cebuano: “Manchester”
  • Central Kanuri: “Manchester”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەنچستر”
  • Chechen: “Манчестер”
  • Chinese: “Manchester”
  • Chinese: “曼彻斯特”
  • Chinese: “曼徹斯特”
  • Cornish: “Mankenyon”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Mançester”
  • Croatian: “Manchester”
  • Czech: “Manchester”
  • Danish: “Manchester”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mançester”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Manchester”
  • Dutch: “Manchester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مانشستر”
  • Esperanto: “Manĉestro”
  • Estonian: “Manchester”
  • Extremaduran: “Manchester”
  • Faroese: “Manchester”
  • Fijian: “Manchester”
  • Finnish: “Manchester”
  • French: “Manchester”
  • Galician: “Manchester”
  • Georgian: “მანჩესტერი”
  • German: “Manchester”
  • Greek: “Μαγκεστρία”
  • Greek: “Μαγχεστρία”
  • Greek: “Μάντσεστερ”
  • Guarani: “Manchester”
  • Gujarati: “માન્ચેસ્ટર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Manchester”
  • Hausa: “Manchester”
  • Hebrew: “מנצ’סטר”
  • Hindi: “मांचॆस्टर”
  • Hindi: “मैन्चेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Manchester”
  • Icelandic: “Manchester”
  • Ido: “Manchester”
  • Indonesian: “Manchester”
  • Interlingua: “Manchester (Anglaterra)”
  • Interlingua: “Manchester”
  • Interlingue: “Manchester”
  • Irish: “Manchain”
  • Italian: “Città di Manchester”
  • Italian: “Manchester”
  • Japanese: “ウェアハウス”
  • Japanese: “コットノポリス”
  • Japanese: “セカンド・シティ”
  • Japanese: “マンチェスター”
  • Japanese: “北の首都”
  • Kabyle: “Manchester”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಂಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮ್ಯಾಂಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Manchester”
  • Kashmiri: “مانچسٹر”
  • Kashmiri: “مانچِسٹَر”
  • Kazakh: “Манчестер”
  • Khmer: “មែនឈេសទ័រ”
  • Kirghiz: “Манчестер”
  • Korean: “맨체스터”
  • Kurdish: “Manchester”
  • Ladin: “Manchester”
  • Lao: “ແມນເຊສເຕີ”
  • Latin: “Mamucium”
  • Latin: “Mancunium”
  • Latvian: “Mančestra”
  • Limburgan: “Manchester”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Manchester”
  • Lithuanian: “Mančesteris”
  • Low German: “Manchester”
  • Low German: “Mesjester”
  • Luxembourgish: “Manchester”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Manchester”
  • Macedonian: “Манчестер”
  • Madurese: “Manchester”
  • Maithili: “म्यानचेस्टर”
  • Malay: “Manchester”
  • Malay: “منچيستر”
  • Malayalam: “മാഞ്ചസ്റ്റർ”
  • Maltese: “Manchester”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯥꯟꯆꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯔ”
  • Manx: “Manchuin”
  • Marathi: “मँचेस्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “منچستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Manchester”
  • Minangkabau: “Manchester”
  • Mingrelian: “მანჩესთერი”
  • Mingrelian: “მანჩესტერი”
  • Moksha: “Манчэстэр”
  • Mongolian: “Манчестер”
  • Narom: “Manchêtre”
  • Nepali: “म्यानचेस्टर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Manchester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Manchester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Manchester”
  • Norwegian: “Manchester”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Manchester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mameceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Манчестер”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਨਚੈਸਟਰ”
  • Persian: “منچستر”
  • Piemontese: “Manchester”
  • Polish: “Manchester”
  • Portuguese: “Manchester, Inglaterra”
  • Portuguese: “Manchester, Reino Unido”
  • Portuguese: “Manchester”
  • Quechua: “Manchester”
  • Romanian: “Manchester, Anglia”
  • Romanian: “Manchester”
  • Russian: “Манчестер”
  • Sardinian: “Manchester”
  • Scots: “Manchester”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Manchester”
  • Serbian: “Манчестер, Енглеска”
  • Serbian: “Манчестер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Manchester”
  • Sicilian: “Manchester”
  • Silesian: “Manchester”
  • Sindhi: “مانچسٽر”
  • Sinhala: “මැන්චෙස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Manchester”
  • Slovenian: “Manchester”
  • Somali: “Manchester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “منچستر”
  • Spanish: “Mánchester”
  • Swahili: “Manchester”
  • Swedish: “Manchester”
  • Tagalog: “Manchester”
  • Tajik: “Манчестер”
  • Talysh: “Mancester”
  • Talysh: “Mançester”
  • Tamil: “மன்செஸ்டர்”
  • Tamil: “மான்செஸ்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Mançester”
  • Tatar: “Манчестер”
  • Telugu: “మాంచెస్టర్”
  • Thai: “แมนเชสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Manchester, İngiltere”
  • Turkish: “Manchester”
  • Twi: “Manchester”
  • Uighur: “Manchéstér”
  • Ukrainian: “Манчестер”
  • Urdu: “مانچسٹر”
  • Urdu: “مانچیسٹر”
  • Urdu: “مینچسٹر”
  • Urdu: “مینچیسٹر”
  • Uzbek: “Manchester”
  • Venetian: “Manchester”
  • Veps: “Mančester”
  • Vietnamese: “Manchester”
  • Volapük: “Manchester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Manchester”
  • Welsh: “Manceinion”
  • Western Armenian: “Մանչէսթըր”
  • Western Armenian: “Մէնչըսթըր”
  • Western Frisian: “Manchester”
  • Western Panjabi: “مانچسٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “曼彻斯特”
  • Yiddish: “מאנטשעסטער”
  • Yue Chinese: “曼徹斯特”
  • Zeeuws: “Manchester”
  • “Manchester”

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