Margate

Margate is a seaside resort on the north coast, with a population in 2021 of more than 64,000. It's suffered the usual decline of English seaside towns but its beach is still thronged on warm summer weekends, and there are several places of interest for cold wet days.
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  • Type: Town with 58,500 residents
  • Description: town in Kent, England
  • Also known as: “Margate, Kent” and “マーゲート”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Shell Grotto and Dreamland Margate.

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The , sometimes called the Shell Temple…

Theme park
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is an amusement park and…

Railway station
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serves the town of Margate in Thanet, , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Peter’s and Cliftonville.

Suburb
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St Peter's is an area of , in the civil… is situated 2 miles southeast of Margate.

Suburb
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is a coastal area of Margate in the Thanet district of , .

Town
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is a seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of , England.

Margate

Latitude
51.3878° or 51° 23′ 16″ north
Longitude
1.382° or 1° 22′ 55″ east
Population
58,500
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB MGT
Open location code
9F3399QJ+4Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 14076017
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2643044
Wiki­data ID
Q618045
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Margate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مارجيت”
  • Armenian: “Մարգեյթ”
  • Asturian: “Margate”
  • Bashkir: “Маргит (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Маргит”
  • Basque: “Margate”
  • Breton: “Margate”
  • Bulgarian: “Маргейт”
  • Catalan: “Margate”
  • Cebuano: “Margate”
  • Chinese: “馬蓋特”
  • Chinese: “马盖特”
  • Czech: “Margate”
  • Danish: “Margate”
  • Dutch: “Margate”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارجيت”
  • Finnish: “Margate”
  • French: “Margate”
  • German: “Margate”
  • Hebrew: “מארגט”
  • Hungarian: “Margate”
  • Icelandic: “Margate”
  • Irish: “Margate”
  • Italian: “Margate”
  • Japanese: “マーゲイト”
  • Korean: “마게이트”
  • Ladin: “Margate”
  • Latvian: “Mārgeita”
  • Lithuanian: “Margeitas”
  • Malagasy: “Margate”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Margate”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Margate”
  • Norwegian: “Margate”
  • Persian: “مارگیت، انگلستان”
  • Persian: “مارگیت”
  • Polish: “Margate”
  • Portuguese: “Margate”
  • Romanian: “Margate”
  • Russian: “Маргит”
  • Serbian: “Маргејт”
  • Silesian: “Margate”
  • Slovak: “Margate”
  • Slovenian: “Margate”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مارقیت”
  • Spanish: “Margate”
  • Swedish: “Margate”
  • Tatar: “Маргейт”
  • Turkish: “Margate”
  • Ukrainian: “Маргейт”
  • Urdu: “مارگیٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Margate”
  • Volapük: “Margate”
  • Welsh: “Margate”
  • Western Frisian: “Margate”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Margate Old Town and Cliftonville West.

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