Penzance
Penzance is the most south-westerly town in West Cornwall. Famous for its association with the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Pirates of Penzance, the town is an ideal base for exploring the Penwith area of Cornwall.
- Town with about 20,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 30 feet (10 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code PZE
- …is also known as “Penzance, Cornwall”
- Description: town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
Places of Interest
Highlights include Penzance Railway Station and Penlee House.
Penzance Railway Station
Railway station
Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance in west Cornwall, England.
Penzance Heliport
Heliport
Penzance Heliport is located 1 mile northeast of Penzance, Cornwall, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newlyn and Madron and Sancreed.
Madron and Sancreed
Madron and Sancreed are the two landlocked parishes on the Penwith peninsula in West Cornwall.
Mousehole
Mousehole is a charming fishing village in West Cornwall, known for its picturesque harbour.
Penzance
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Latitude
50.1195° or 50° 7′ 10″ north
Longitude
-5.5352° or 5° 32′ 7″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB PEN
Open location code
9C2P4F97+QW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Penzance” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بنزانس”
- Arabic: “بينزانس”
- Armenian: “Պենզանս”
- Armenian: “Փենզանս”
- Asturian: “Penzance”
- Basque: “Penzance”
- Belarusian: “Пензанс”
- Bengali: “পেঞ্জান্সে”
- Breton: “Pennsans”
- Breton: “Penzance”
- Breton: “Penzañs”
- Bulgarian: “Пензанс”
- Burmese: “ပင်န်ဇန့်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Pennsans”
- Catalan: “Penzance”
- Catalan: “Penzans”
- Cebuano: “Penzance (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Penzance”
- Chinese: “彭贊斯”
- Chinese: “彭赞斯”
- Cornish: “Pennsans”
- Cornish: “Pensans”
- Czech: “Penzance”
- Danish: “Penzance”
- Dutch: “Penzance”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بينزانس”
- Esperanto: “Penzance”
- Estonian: “Penzance”
- French: “Penzance”
- Galician: “Penzance”
- Georgian: “პენზანსი”
- German: “Pennsans”
- German: “Pensans”
- German: “Penzance”
- Greek: “Πενζάνς”
- Gujarati: “પેનઝાન્સ”
- Hebrew: “פנזנס”
- Icelandic: “Penzance”
- Interlingue: “Penzance”
- Irish: “Pen Sans”
- Irish: “Pennsans”
- Irish: “Penzance”
- Italian: “Penzance”
- Japanese: “ペンザンス”
- Kannada: “ಪೆನ್ಜಾನ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “펜잰스”
- Ladin: “Penzance”
- Latin: “Penzance”
- Latin: “Penzans”
- Lithuanian: “Penzansas”
- Macedonian: “Пензанс”
- Manx: “Pen Sans”
- Northern Sami: “Pennsans”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Penzance”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pensans”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penzance”
- Norwegian: “Penzance”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pennsans”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Penzance”
- Ossetian: “Пензанс”
- Persian: “پنزانس”
- Polish: “Penzance”
- Portuguese: “Penzance”
- Quechua: “Penzance”
- Romanian: “Penzance”
- Russian: “Пензанс”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pennsans”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Penzance”
- Slovak: “Penzance”
- Slovenian: “Penzance”
- South Azerbaijani: “پنزانس”
- Spanish: “Penzance”
- Swedish: “Penzance”
- Tagalog: “Penzance”
- Tamil: “பென்சான்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “పెన్స్యాన్స్”
- Turkish: “Penzance”
- Ukrainian: “Пензанс”
- Urdu: “پینزانس”
- Urdu: “پینزانکی”
- Volapük: “Pensans”
- Volapük: “Penzance”
- Welsh: “Pennsans”
- Welsh: “Pensans”
- Western Frisian: “Penzance”
- Western Panjabi: “پینزانس”
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