Camden
Camden is an inner northern district of London. Its heart lies in Camden Town, a neighbourhood known for its market and the colourful nightlife. Camden is home to three of the most important railway stations in London: King's Cross, St. Pancras and Euston.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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- Type: Town with 24,500 residents
- Description: inner city district of London
- Also known as: “Camden Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include London St Pancras International and British Library.
London St Pancras International
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London St Pancras International is a major international rail interchange and shopping destination in London. It is the British capital's only international station, with Eurostar services connecting the city with destinations in mainland Europe.
British Library
Library
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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries.
Camden Market
Marketplace
Photo: Horst Michael Lechner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Camden markets are a number of adjoining large retail markets, often collectively referred to as Camden Market or Camden Lock, located in the historic former Pickfords stables, in Camden Town, London.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bloomsbury and Chalk Farm.
Bloomsbury
This article is about three neighbourhoods of central London: Bloomsbury, St Pancras and Fitzrovia. Bloomsbury is the hub of London's university district, is home to the British Museum and is next to the British Library.
Chalk Farm
Suburb
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chalk Farm is a small urban district of north west London, lying immediately north of Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden.
King’s Cross
Suburb
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King's Cross is a district in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington, on either side of Euston Road in north London, England, 1.5 miles north of Charing Cross, bordered by Barnsbury to the north, Clerkenwell to the southeast, Angel to the east, Holborn and Bloomsbury to the south, Somers Town to the west and Camden Town to the northwest.
Camden
- Categories: area of London, district, and locality
- Location: Camden, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.53925° or 51° 32′ 21″ northLongitude
-0.14276° or 0° 8′ 34″ westPopulation
24,500Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)Open location code
9C3XGVQ4+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 399607277OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3345437Wikidata ID
Q149836
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Satellite Map
Discover Camden from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Camden” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Camden Town”
- Arabic: “كامدن تاون”
- Armenian: “Քամդեն Թաուն”
- Basque: “Camden Town”
- Catalan: “Camden Town”
- Cebuano: “Camden Town”
- Chinese: “伦敦/卡姆登”
- Chinese: “卡姆登”
- Chinese: “康登鎮”
- Czech: “Camden Town”
- Danish: “Camden Town”
- Dutch: “Camden Town”
- Esperanto: “Camden Town”
- French: “Camden Town”
- French: “Camden”
- Galician: “Camden Town”
- German: “Camden Town”
- Greek: “Κάμντεν Τάουν”
- Hebrew: “קמדן טאון”
- Hebrew: “קמדן”
- Hungarian: “Camden Town”
- Indonesian: “Camden Town”
- Irish: “Camden Town”
- Italian: “Camden Town”
- Italian: “Municipio di Camden”
- Japanese: “カムデン・タウン”
- Korean: “캠던 타운”
- Korean: “캠던타운”
- Korean: “캠든 타운”
- Korean: “캠든타운”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Camden Town”
- Norwegian: “Camden Town”
- Ossetian: “Камден-Таун”
- Persian: “کمدن تاون”
- Polish: “Camden Town”
- Portuguese: “Camden Town”
- Portuguese: “Camden”
- Quechua: “Camden Town”
- Russian: “Камден-Таун”
- Scots: “Camden Town”
- Slovenian: “Camden Town”
- South Azerbaijani: “کمدن تاون”
- Spanish: “Camden Town”
- Swedish: “Camden Town”
- Turkish: “Camden Town”
- Urdu: “کیمڈن ٹاؤن”
- Vietnamese: “Camden Town”
- Welsh: “Camden Town”
- Western Armenian: “Քամտեն Թաուն”
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