Newtownards

Newtownards is a town at the head of Strangford Lough, historically in , with a population in 2021 of 29,600. The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer units of governance so since 2015 the town has been part of Ards and North Down "super-district".
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  • Type: Town with 29,400 residents
  • Description: town in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
  • Also known as: “Baile Aird Uladh”, “Newtown Ards”, and “ニュートナーズ”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Newtownards Airport and Scrabo Tower.

Aerodrome
Photo: Dennis Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newtownards Aerodrome is a local airfield…

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is a 135 feet high 19th-century lookout…

Church
Photo: Dennis Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
in Newtownards, …

Newtownards

Latitude
54.5934° or 54° 35′ 36″ north
Longitude
-5.6961° or 5° 41′ 46″ west
Population
29,400
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB NTS
Open location code
9C6PH8V3+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267762996
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641519
Wiki­data ID
Q2192709
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Newtownards” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Newtownards”
  • Asturian: “Newtownards”
  • Basque: “Newtownards”
  • Belarusian: “Ньютаўнардс”
  • Bulgarian: “Нютаунардс”
  • Catalan: “Newtownards”
  • Cebuano: “Newtownards”
  • Chinese: “紐敦納茲”
  • Chinese: “纽敦纳兹”
  • Dutch: “Newtownards”
  • Finnish: “Newtownards”
  • French: “Newtownards”
  • Galician: “Newtownards”
  • German: “Newtownards”
  • Hebrew: “ניוטוונרדס”
  • Irish: “Baile Nua na hArda”
  • Italian: “Newtownards”
  • Japanese: “ニュータウナーズ”
  • Korean: “뉴타우나즈”
  • Korean: “뉴튼아즈”
  • Lithuanian: “Niutonardsas”
  • Macedonian: “Њутонардс”
  • Malay: “Newtownards”
  • Northern Frisian: “Newtownards”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Newtownards”
  • Norwegian: “Newtownards”
  • Persian: “نیوتاوناردز”
  • Polish: “Newtownards”
  • Portuguese: “Newtownards”
  • Russian: “Ньютаунардс”
  • Slovenian: “Newtownards”
  • Spanish: “Newtownards”
  • Swedish: “Newtownards”
  • Urdu: “نیو ٹاؤنارڈز”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Glen and Scrabo.

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