Peterborough
Peterborough is a city in Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, with a population of 202,259 in 2019. It's industrial and ringed by bland "New Town" residential districts, yet has an attractive historic centre around its cathedral, where two British monarchs were buried.
- Type: City with 184,000 residents
- Description: cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England
- Also known as: “Caerbedr”, “City of Peterborough”, “Medehamstede”, “Peterboras”, “Peterbrough”, “Petersborough”, “Пітэрбара (Англія)”, “পিটারবোরো”, “પીટરબોરો”, “பீட்டர்போரூக்ஹ்”, “పీటర్ బర్గ్”, “ಪೀಟರ್ಬರೋ”, “피터보로”, “ピーターボロー”, and “ピーターボロウ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Peterborough Cathedral and Peterborough railway station.
Peterborough railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.Peterborough Nene Valley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Warriorofrovac, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dogsthorpe and Stanground.
Peterborough
- Categories: big city, unparished area, new town (UK), and locality
- Location: Orton Longueville, Peterborough, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.5726° or 52° 34′ 21″ north
Longitude
-0.2427° or 0° 14′ 34″ west
Population
184,000
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
IATA airport code
XVH
UN/LOCODE
GB PET
Open location code
9C4XHQF4+2W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Peterborough” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Peterborough”
- Arabic: “بيتربرة”
- Aragonese: “Peterborough”
- Armenian: “Պիտերբորո”
- Asturian: “Peterborough”
- Azerbaijani: “Piterboro”
- Balinese: “Peterborough”
- Basque: “Peterborough”
- Belarusian: “Пітэрбара”
- Bengali: “পিটারবার্গ”
- Bulgarian: “Питърбъро”
- Catalan: “Peterborough”
- Cebuano: “Peterborough (kapital sa kondado)”
- Cebuano: “Peterborough”
- Chinese: “彼得伯勒”
- Czech: “Peterborough”
- Danish: “Peterborough”
- Dimli (individual language): “Peterborough”
- Dutch: “Peterborough”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيتربره”
- Esperanto: “Peterborough”
- Estonian: “Peterborough”
- Fijian: “Peterborough”
- Finnish: “Peterborough”
- French: “Peterborough”
- German: “Peterborough”
- Greek: “Πίτερμπρο”
- Gujarati: “પીટરબરો”
- Hausa: “Peterborough”
- Hebrew: “פיטרבורו”
- Hindi: “पीटरबरो”
- Hungarian: “Peterborough”
- Icelandic: “Peterborough”
- Indonesian: “Peterborough”
- Irish: “Peterborough”
- Italian: “Peterborough”
- Japanese: “ピーターバラ”
- Kannada: “ಪೀಟರ್ ಬೊರೊಹ್”
- Kazakh: “Питерборо”
- Korean: “피터버러”
- Kurdish: “Peterborough”
- Ladin: “Peterborough”
- Latin: “Petroburgum”
- Latvian: “Pīterboro”
- Lithuanian: “Piterboras”
- Luxembourgish: “Peterborough”
- Macedonian: “Питерборо”
- Malay: “Peterborough”
- Maltese: “Peterborough”
- Manipuri: “ꯄꯤꯇꯔꯕꯣꯔꯧꯒ”
- Marathi: “पीटरबॉरो”
- Mazanderani: “پیتربورو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Peterborough”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peterborough”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peterborough”
- Norwegian: “Peterborough”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Burh”
- Ossetian: “Питерборо (Англис)”
- Ossetian: “Питерборо”
- Persian: “پیتربورو”
- Polish: “Peterborough”
- Portuguese: “Peterborough”
- Quechua: “Peterborough”
- Romanian: “Peterborough”
- Russian: “Питерборо”
- Scots: “Peterborough”
- Serbian: “Piterboro”
- Serbian: “Питерборо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peterborough”
- Silesian: “Peterborough”
- Sinhala: “පීටර්බොරෝ”
- Slovak: “Peterborough”
- Slovenian: “Peterborough”
- South Azerbaijani: “پیتربورو، اونتاریو”
- South Azerbaijani: “پیتربورو”
- Spanish: “Peterborough”
- Swahili: “Peterborough”
- Swedish: “Peterborough”
- Tagalog: “Peterborough”
- Tamil: “பீட்டர்பாரோ”
- Tatar: “Питерборо”
- Telugu: “పీటర్ బరో”
- Thai: “ปีเตอร์เบอโร”
- Thai: “ปีเตอร์โบโร”
- Turkish: “Peterborough”
- Ukrainian: “Пітерборо”
- Urdu: “پیٹربورو”
- Venetian: “Peterborough”
- Vietnamese: “Peterborough”
- Volapük: “Peterborough”
- Waray (Philippines): “Peterborough”
- Welsh: “Peterborough”
- Welsh: “Trebedr”
- Western Panjabi: “پیٹربرا”
- Wu Chinese: “彼得伯勒”
- Yue Chinese: “彼德堡”
- “Peterborough”
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