South East England
Oxfordshire
Oxford

Oxford

Oxford is the oldest university city in the , some 50 miles to the west of the capital in its own county of , on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.
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  • Type: City with 165,000 residents
  • Description: city in Oxfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Oxford, England”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Somerville College and Balliol College.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world.

Museum
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The is a displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Northway and Cowley.

Suburb
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is a suburb in northeast Oxford, , just inside the Oxford ring road. It is near and the . It mainly consists of social housing built by Oxford City Council in the 1950s, though many houses and apartments are now in private ownership.

Suburb
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is a residential and industrial area in Oxford, in the county of , England. 's neighbours are Rose Hill and to the south, to the north and the villages of and across fields to the east.

Village
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is a village and civil parish just over 1 mile south of the centre of Oxford. The parish includes the residential area of about 0.5 miles south of the village.

Oxford

Latitude
51.752° or 51° 45′ 7″ north
Longitude
-1.2579° or 1° 15′ 28″ west
Population
165,000
Elevation
236 feet (72 metres)
IATA airport code
OXF
United Nations Location Code
GB OXF
Open location code
9C3WQP2R+RV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12805909
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2640729
Wiki­data ID
Q34217
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Oxford” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Оқсфорд”
  • Afrikaans: “Oxford”
  • Albanian: “Oksford”
  • Amharic: “ኦክስፎርድ”
  • Arabic: “Oxford”
  • Arabic: “أكسفرد”
  • Arabic: “أكسفورد”
  • Arabic: “أوكسفورد”
  • Arabic: “اكسفورد”
  • Arabic: “اوكسفورد”
  • Arabic: “غركة فرت”
  • Aragonese: “Oxford”
  • Armenian: “Օքսֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Oxford”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oksford”
  • Balinese: “Oxford”
  • Bashkir: “Оксфорд”
  • Basque: “Oxford”
  • Belarusian: “Оксфард”
  • Bengali: “অক্সফোর্ড”
  • Bosnian: “Oxford”
  • Breton: “Oxford”
  • Breton: “Redec’hen / Oxford”
  • Bulgarian: “Оксфорд”
  • Burmese: “အောက်စဖို့မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Oxford”
  • Cebuano: “Oxford (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Oxford”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆکسفۆرد”
  • Chechen: “Оксфорд”
  • Chinese: “Oxford”
  • Chinese: “牛津”
  • Chinese: “牛津城”
  • Chinese: “牛津市”
  • Chuvash: “Оксфорд”
  • Cornish: “Resoghen”
  • Cornish: “Rysoghen”
  • Croatian: “Oxford”
  • Cumbric: “Rhydychen”
  • Czech: “Oxford”
  • Danish: “Oxford”
  • Danish: “Oxnaford” (historical)
  • Dimli (individual language): “Oxford”
  • Dutch: “Oxford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوكسفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Oksfordo”
  • Esperanto: “Oxford”
  • Estonian: “Oxford”
  • Extremaduran: “Oxford”
  • Faroese: “Oxford”
  • Fijian: “Oxford”
  • Finnish: “Oxford”
  • French: “Oxford”
  • Galician: “Oxford”
  • Georgian: “ოქსფორდი”
  • German: “Oxford”
  • Greek: “Οξφόρδη”
  • Guarani: “Oxford”
  • Gujarati: “ઓક્ષફર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “אוקספורד”
  • Hindi: “आक्सफोर्ड”
  • Hindi: “ऑक्सफोर्ड”
  • Hindi: “ऑक्सफ़ोर्ड”
  • Hindi: “ऑक्स्फोर्ड”
  • Hindi: “ऑक्स्फ़ोर्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Oxford”
  • Icelandic: “Oxford”
  • Icelandic: “Oxnaford” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Öxnafurða”
  • Icelandic: “Uxavað”
  • Ido: “Oxford”
  • Indonesian: “Oxford”
  • Interlingue: “Oxford”
  • Irish: “Áth na nDamh”
  • Irish: “Ocsanphort”
  • Irish: “Oxford”
  • Italian: “Oxford”
  • Japanese: “Oxford”
  • Japanese: “オクスフォード”
  • Japanese: “オックスフォード”
  • Japanese: “牛津”
  • Javanese: “Oxford”
  • Kabyle: “Oksford”
  • Kannada: “ಆಕ್ಸ್ಫರ್ಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆಕ್ಸ್‌ಫರ್ಡ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Oksford”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Oxford”
  • Kazakh: “Оксфорд”
  • Kirghiz: “Оксфорд”
  • Korean: “옥스퍼드”
  • Korean: “옥스포드”
  • Kurdish: “Oxford”
  • Ladin: “Oxford”
  • Latin: “Athenae Anglorum”
  • Latin: “Oxonia”
  • Latin: “Oxonii”
  • Latin: “Oxoniis”
  • Latin: “Oxonium”
  • Latin: “Rhedicina”
  • Latvian: “Oksforda”
  • Latvian: “Oxford”
  • Lithuanian: “Oksfordas”
  • Lithuanian: “Oxford”
  • Low German: “Oxford”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oxford”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Oxford”
  • Macedonian: “Оксфорд”
  • Malagasy: “Oxford”
  • Malay: “Oxford”
  • Malayalam: “ഓക്സ്ഫോഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഓക്സ്ഫോർഡ്”
  • Maltese: “Oxford”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯣꯛꯁ꯭ꯐꯣꯔ꯭ꯗ”
  • Manx: “Aah yn Ollee”
  • Marathi: “ऑक्सफर्ड,इंग्लंड”
  • Marathi: “ऑक्सफर्ड”
  • Mazanderani: “آکسفورد”
  • Middle Breton: “Rhydychen”
  • Middle English (1100-1500): “Oxenford”
  • Middle English (1100-1500): “Oxneford”
  • Middle Irish (900-1200): “Rhydychen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oxford”
  • Moksha: “Оксфорд”
  • Mongolian: “Оксфорд”
  • Narom: “Oxford”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oxford”
  • Northern Sami: “Oxford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oxford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oxford”
  • Norwegian: “Oxford”
  • Norwegian: “Oxnaford” (historical)
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oxford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Oxenaford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Oxenaforda”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Oxnaford”
  • Old Norse: “Oxnaford”
  • Ossetian: “Оксфорд”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਕਸਫ਼ੋਰਡ”
  • Papiamento: “Oxford”
  • Persian: “آکسفورد”
  • Persian: “اکسفورد”
  • Piemontese: “Oxford”
  • Polish: “Oksford”
  • Polish: “Oxford”
  • Portuguese: “Oxford”
  • Portuguese: “Oxfordia”
  • Portuguese: “Oxónia”
  • Portuguese: “Oxônia”
  • Quechua: “Oxford”
  • Romanian: “Oxford”
  • Russian: “Oxford”
  • Russian: “Оксфорд”
  • Samogitian: “Oksfuords”
  • Sardinian: “Oxford”
  • Scots: “Oxford”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ath nan Damh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Àth nan Damh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Oxford”
  • Serbian: “Oxford”
  • Serbian: “Оксфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oxford”
  • Sicilian: “Oxford”
  • Silesian: “Oxford”
  • Sindhi: “آڪسفورڊ”
  • Sinhala: “ඔක්ස්ෆර්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Oxford”
  • Slovenian: “Oxford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آکسفورد”
  • Spanish: “Oxford Inglaterra”
  • Spanish: “Oxford”
  • Spanish: “Oxfordiense”
  • Spanish: “Oxoniense”
  • Swahili: “Oxford”
  • Swedish: “Oxford”
  • Swedish: “Oxnaford” (historical)
  • Swiss German: “Oxford”
  • Tagalog: “Oxford”
  • Tajik: “Оксфорд”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்போர்ட்”
  • Tamil: “ஆக்சுபோர்டு”
  • Tamil: “நியூசர்ச்”
  • Tatar: “Оксфорд”
  • Telugu: “ఆక్స్‌ఫర్డ్”
  • Thai: “ออกซฟอร์ด อังกฤษ”
  • Thai: “ออกซฟอร์ด”
  • Thai: “อ๊อกซฟอร์ด”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oxford”
  • Turkish: “Oksford”
  • Turkish: “Oxford”
  • Twi: “Oxford”
  • Uighur: “Oksford”
  • Uighur: “ئوكسفورد”
  • Ukrainian: “Oxford”
  • Ukrainian: “Оксфорд”
  • Urdu: “اوکسفرڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Oksford”
  • Uzbek: “Oxford”
  • Venetian: “Oxford”
  • Veps: “Oksford”
  • Vietnamese: “Ốcxfớt”
  • Vietnamese: “Oxford, Anh Quốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Oxford”
  • Volapük: “Oxford”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oxford”
  • Welsh: “Rhydychen”
  • Western Armenian: “Օքսֆորտ”
  • Western Frisian: “Oksford”
  • Western Frisian: “Oksfurd”
  • Western Frisian: “Oxford”
  • Western Panjabi: “آکسفورڈ”
  • Western Panjabi: “آکسفورڑ”
  • Wu Chinese: “牛津”
  • Yiddish: “אקספארד”
  • Yue Chinese: “牛津”
  • Zeeuws: “Oxford”
  • “ma tomo Opo”
  • “Oksfuords”
  • “Oxford”

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