Newtownabbey

Newtownabbey is a district just north of Belfast. It's short of tourist sights and facilities, and you'd only come here for business or to attend the university.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of Ireland and Whiteabbey Hospital.

Church
The is a Christian church in , and an autonomous member church of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second-largest Christian church on the island after the Roman Catholic Church.

Hospital
is a hospital located close to the village of Whiteabbey, within the town of Newtownabbey, . The hospital first opened in 1907 as The Abbey Sanitorium, centred around a country house known as 'The Abbey'.

Railway station
serves and the University of Ulster in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. A park and ride facility for the station has been proposed to ease congestion on the main Jordanstown Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jordanstown.

Suburb
is a townland and electoral ward in , Northern Ireland. It is within the urban area of Newtownabbey and the area.

Newtownabbey

Latitude
54.6779° or 54° 40′ 40″ north
Longitude
-5.9249° or 5° 55′ 30″ west
Population
62,000
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NTA
Open location code
9C6PM3HG+52
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267763099
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641520
Wiki­data ID
Q918947
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Newtownabbey” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Newtownabbey
  • Basque: Newtownabbey
  • Bulgarian: Нютаунаби
  • Catalan: Newtownabbey
  • Cebuano: Newtownabbey (kapital sa distrito sa Hiniusang Gingharian)
  • Cebuano: Newtownabbey
  • Chinese: 紐敦阿比
  • Dutch: Newtownabbey
  • French: Newtownabbey
  • German: Newtownabbey
  • Hungarian: Newtownabbey
  • Irish: Baile na Mainistreach
  • Italian: Newtownabbey
  • Japanese: ニュータウンアビー
  • Japanese: ニュータウンアベイ
  • Korean: 뉴타우내비
  • Korean: 뉴튼애비
  • Macedonian: Њутонеби
  • Malay: Newtownabbey
  • Northern Frisian: Newtownabbey
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Newtownabbey
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Newtownabbey
  • Norwegian: Newtownabbey
  • Ossetian: Ньютаунабби
  • Persian: تیوتاون‌ابی
  • Persian: نیوتاون‌ابی
  • Polish: Newtownabbey
  • Russian: Ньютаунабби
  • Russian: Ньютаунэбби
  • Russian: Ньютонэббей
  • Scottish Gaelic: Baile na Mainistreach
  • Serbian: Њутонаби
  • South Azerbaijani: نیوتاون‌ابی
  • Spanish: Newtownabbey
  • Swedish: Newtownabbey
  • Tatar: Ньютаунәбби
  • Urdu: نیو ٹاؤن ایبی

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Newtownabbey”. Photo: Pastor Sam, CC BY 3.0.