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Peterborough

Peterborough is a city in 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.
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  • Type: City with 184,000 residents
  • Description: cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England
  • Also known as: “Peterbrough”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Peterborough Cathedral and Peterborough railway station.

Church
Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, , in the United Kingdom.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
serves the cathedral city of Peterborough, , England. It is sited 76 miles 29 chains north of .

Shopping center
The Queensgate shopping centre is located in the centre of the UK city of Peterborough, in . It contains over 100 stores and parking for 2,300 cars in four onsite multi-storey car parks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stanground and Longthorpe.

Suburb
Photo: Julian Dowse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a residential area of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of , England. For electoral purposes, it comprises the South and Fletton & wards in the North West Cambridgeshire constituency.

Suburb
is an area of the city of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of , England. Located two miles west from the city centre, the area covers 1,390 acres.

Suburb
Photo: Jay Haywood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a residential area and electoral ward of the city of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of , England.

Peterborough

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
United Nations Location Code
GB PET
Open location code
9C4XHQF4+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17951258
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2640354
Wiki­data ID
Q172438
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Satellite Map

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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 (Англія)”
  • Belarusian: “Пітэрбара”
  • Bengali: “পিটারবার্গ”
  • Bengali: “পিটারবোরো”
  • Bulgarian: “Питърбъро”
  • Catalan: “Peterborough”
  • Cebuano: “Peterborough (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Peterborough”
  • Chinese: “Peterborough”
  • Chinese: “彼得伯勒”
  • Chinese: “彼德堡”
  • Czech: “Peterborough”
  • Danish: “Peterborough”
  • Danish: “Petersborough”
  • 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”
  • Gujarati: “પીટરબોરો”
  • Hausa: “Peterborough”
  • Hebrew: “פטרבורו”
  • Hebrew: “פיטרבורו”
  • Hindi: “पीटरबरो”
  • Hungarian: “Peterborough”
  • Icelandic: “Peterborough”
  • Indonesian: “Peterborough”
  • Irish: “Peterborough”
  • Italian: “City of Peterborough”
  • Italian: “Peterborough”
  • Japanese: “ピーターバラ”
  • Japanese: “ピーターボロー”
  • Japanese: “ピーターボロウ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೀಟರ್ ಬೊರೊಹ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪೀಟರ್ಬರೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Питерборо”
  • Korean: “피터버러”
  • Korean: “피터보로”
  • Kurdish: “Peterborough”
  • Ladin: “Peterborough”
  • Latin: “Petroburgum”
  • Latvian: “Peterborough”
  • Latvian: “Pīterboro”
  • Lithuanian: “Peterboras”
  • Lithuanian: “Peterborough”
  • Lithuanian: “Piterboras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Peterborough”
  • Macedonian: “Питерборо”
  • Malay: “Peterborough”
  • Maltese: “Peterborough”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯤꯇꯔꯕꯣꯔꯧꯒ”
  • Marathi: “पीटरबॉरो”
  • Mazanderani: “پیتربورو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Peterborough”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “City of Peterborough”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peterborough”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peterborough”
  • Norwegian: “Peterborough”
  • Ossetian: “Питерборо (Англис)”
  • Ossetian: “Питерборо”
  • Persian: “پیتربورو”
  • Polish: “Peterborough”
  • Portuguese: “Peterborough”
  • Quechua: “Peterborough”
  • Romanian: “Peterborough”
  • Russian: “Питерборо”
  • Scots: “Peterborough”
  • Serbian: “Peterborough”
  • Serbian: “Piterboro”
  • Serbian: “Питерборо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Peterborough”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piterboro”
  • 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”
  • Tamil: “பீட்டர்போரூக்ஹ்”
  • Tatar: “Питерборо”
  • Telugu: “పీటర్ బరో”
  • Telugu: “పీటర్ బర్గ్”
  • Thai: “ปีเตอร์เบอโร”
  • Thai: “ปีเตอร์โบโร”
  • Turkish: “Peterborough”
  • Ukrainian: “Пітерборо”
  • Urdu: “پیٹربورو”
  • Venetian: “Peterborough”
  • Vietnamese: “Peterborough”
  • Volapük: “Peterborough”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Peterborough”
  • Welsh: “Caerbedr”
  • Welsh: “Peterborough”
  • Welsh: “Trebedr”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیٹربرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “彼得伯勒”
  • Yue Chinese: “彼德堡”

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