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Plymouth

Plymouth is a city in , and the largest city on 's south coast, with a population of 265,000 in 2021. It is about 190 miles south-west of London, where the River Plym and the River Tamar flow into the large bay of Plymouth Sound, creating a perfect natural harbour.
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  • Type: City with 265,000 residents
  • Description: city in Devon, England
  • Also known as: “Plymouth (parish)”, “Plymouth Devon, England”, and “Plymouth, England”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Home Park and Plymouth railway station.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in the area of , Plymouth, , England. With a capacity of 17,900, the ground has been the home of Plymouth Argyle Football Club since 1903, and was also used between 1900 and 1903 by Argyle Athletic club and Argyle F.C. and for athletics and rugby.

Railway station
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serves the city of Plymouth, , England. It is on the northern edge of the city centre, close to the North Cross roundabout.

Railway station
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serves the Devonport area of Plymouth in , England. It is 248 miles 28 chains from measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay. It is managed by Great Western Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cawsand and Saltash.

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is one of twin villages on the Rame Peninsula in south-east Cornwall. overlooks Plymouth Sound is within Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.

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is a town and civil parish in eastern , England. faces the city of Plymouth over the and is popularly known as "the Gateway to Cornwall".

Suburb
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is a commuter suburb of Plymouth and former civil parish in the English county of .

Plymouth

Latitude
50.3714° or 50° 22′ 17″ north
Longitude
-4.1424° or 4° 8′ 33″ west
Population
265,000
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
IATA airport code
PLH
United Nations Location Code
GB PLY
Open location code
9C2Q9VC5+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17986274
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2640194
Wiki­data ID
Q43382
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Plymouth” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Plymouth”
  • Arabic: “بليموث”
  • Aragonese: “Plymouth”
  • Armenian: “Պլիմուտ”
  • Asturian: “Plymouth”
  • Azerbaijani: “Plimut”
  • Balinese: “Plymouth”
  • Basque: “Plymouth”
  • Belarusian: “Плімут”
  • Bengali: “প্লাইমাউথ শহর”
  • Bengali: “প্লাইমাউথ”
  • Bosnian: “Plymouth”
  • Breton: “Aberplym”
  • Breton: “Aberplymm”
  • Breton: “Plymouth”
  • Bulgarian: “Плимут”
  • Bulgarian: “Плимът”
  • Catalan: “Plymouth”
  • Cebuano: “Plymouth”
  • Central Kurdish: “پلیموت”
  • Chinese: “Plymouth”
  • Chinese: “普利茅夫”
  • Chinese: “普利茅斯”
  • Chinese: “普里茅斯”
  • Chuvash: “Плимут”
  • Cornish: “Aberplymm”
  • Cornish: “Plymouth”
  • Croatian: “Plymouth”
  • Czech: “Plymouth”
  • Danish: “Plymouth”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Plymouth”
  • Dutch: “Pleimuiden”
  • Dutch: “Plymouth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بليموث”
  • Esperanto: “Plimuto”
  • Esperanto: “Plymouth”
  • Estonian: “Plymouth”
  • Faroese: “Plymouth”
  • Fijian: “Plymouth”
  • Finnish: “Plymouth”
  • French: “Plymouth”
  • Galician: “Plymouth”
  • German: “Plymouth”
  • Greek: “Πλίμουθ, Αγγλία”
  • Greek: “Πλίμουθ”
  • Greek: “Πλύμουθ”
  • Gujarati: “પ્લાયમાઉથ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Plymouth”
  • Hebrew: “פלימות‘”
  • Hebrew: “פלימות’”
  • Hebrew: “פלימות”
  • Hindi: “प्लायमाउथ”
  • Hungarian: “Plymouth”
  • Icelandic: “Plymouth”
  • Ido: “Plymouth, Anglia”
  • Ido: “Plymouth”
  • Indonesian: “Plymouth”
  • Irish: “Aberplymm”
  • Irish: “Plymouth”
  • Italian: “Plymouth”
  • Japanese: “プリマス”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಲಿಮೌತ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಲೈಮೌತ್”
  • Korean: “플리머스”
  • Kurdish: “Plymouth”
  • Ladin: “Plymouth”
  • Latin: “Plimmuta”
  • Latvian: “Plimuta”
  • Latvian: “Plymouth”
  • Lithuanian: “Plimutas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Plymouth”
  • Macedonian: “Плимут”
  • Malay: “Plymouth”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄ꯭ꯂꯥꯢꯃꯥꯎꯊ, ꯗꯦꯚꯣꯟ”
  • Manx: “Plymouth”
  • Marathi: “प्लिमथ”
  • Mazanderani: “پلیموث”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Plymouth”
  • Narom: “Pliemue”
  • Narom: “Pliémue”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plymouth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “City of Plymouth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plymouth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plymouth”
  • Norwegian: “Plymouth”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Plymouth”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Suðtun”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþtun on Defenum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþtun on Defnum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþtun”
  • Ossetian: “Плимут (Англис)”
  • Ossetian: “Плимут”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਲੀਮਥ”
  • Persian: “پلیموت”
  • Persian: “پلیموث”
  • Piemontese: “Plymouth”
  • Polish: “Plymouth”
  • Portuguese: “Falmu”
  • Portuguese: “Falmud”
  • Portuguese: “Palmu”
  • Portuguese: “Plemu”
  • Portuguese: “Plimude”
  • Portuguese: “Plymouth”
  • Quechua: “Plymouth”
  • Romanian: “Plymouth”
  • Russian: “Плимут”
  • Scots: “Plymouth”
  • Serbian: “Plymouth”
  • Serbian: “Пламаут”
  • Serbian: “Плимут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Plymouth”
  • Sicilian: “Plymouth”
  • Silesian: “Plymouth”
  • Sinhala: “ප්ලයිමවුත්”
  • Slovak: “Plymouth”
  • Slovenian: “Plymouth”
  • Spanish: “Plimouth”
  • Spanish: “Plymouth”
  • Swahili: “Plymouth, South West”
  • Swahili: “Plymouth”
  • Swedish: “Plymouth”
  • Swiss German: “Plymouth”
  • Tagalog: “Plymouth”
  • Tajik: “Плимут”
  • Tamil: “பிளைமவுத்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ளைமொத்”
  • Tatar: “Плимут”
  • Telugu: “ప్లిమౌత్”
  • Telugu: “ప్లేమౌత్”
  • Thai: “Plymouth”
  • Thai: “พลิมัท”
  • Thai: “พลิมัธ”
  • Thai: “พลีมัธ”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Plymouth”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Plymouth”
  • Turkish: “Plymouth”
  • Uighur: “Plimowt”
  • Uighur: “پلىموۋت”
  • Ukrainian: “Плімут”
  • Urdu: “پلایماؤتھ”
  • Uzbek: “Plimut”
  • Venetian: “Plymouth”
  • Vietnamese: “Plymouth”
  • Volapük: “Plymouth”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Plymouth”
  • Welsh: “Aberplym”
  • Welsh: “Plymouth”
  • Western Frisian: “Plymouth”
  • Western Panjabi: “پلائیموتھ”
  • Wu Chinese: “普利茅斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “普里茅斯”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Plymouth”. Photo: Smalljim, CC BY 3.0.