Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a large city in the county of , on the of . Portsmouth plays a major role in British history, especially naval history.
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  • Type: City with 198,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Portsmouth, England” and “Portsmouth, Hampshire”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include HMS Victory and Fratton Park.

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is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 248 years of service as of 2026, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.

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is a football ground in Portsmouth, , England, and is the home of Portsmouth Football Club. 's location on is unique in English professional football, as it is the only professional English football ground not located on the mainland of .

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is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gosport and Southsea.

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is a town in , a short water ride away from Portsmouth. Although not a traditional destination, it does have some attractions if you are interested in maritime history.

Suburb
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is a seaside resort and a geographic area of Portsmouth, in the ceremonial county of , England. is located 1.8 miles to the south of Portsmouth's inner city-centre.

Suburb
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is an area of Portsmouth, , located on the eastern side of . The population of Ward at the 2011 Census was 13,608. As Copenore, it was one of the three villages listed as being on Portsea Island in the Domesday Book.

Portsmouth

Latitude
50.8° or 50° 48′ 0″ north
Longitude
-1.0906° or 1° 5′ 26″ west
Population
198,000
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB PME
Open location code
9C2WRW25+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17721995
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2639996
Wiki­data ID
Q72259
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Portsmouth” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Portsmouth”
  • Arabic: “بورتسماوث”
  • Arabic: “بورتسموث”
  • Aragonese: “Portsmouth”
  • Armenian: “Պորտսմութ”
  • Asturian: “Portsmouth”
  • Azerbaijani: “Portsmut”
  • Balinese: “Portsmouth”
  • Basque: “Portsmouth”
  • Belarusian: “Портсмут (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Портсмут (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Портсмут”
  • Bengali: “পোর্টসমাথ”
  • Bengali: “পোর্টস্ মাথ”
  • Bengali: “পোর্টস্‌মাউথ”
  • Bengali: “পোর্টস্‌মাথ”
  • Breton: “Portsmouth”
  • Bulgarian: “Портсмут”
  • Bulgarian: “Портсмът”
  • Catalan: “Portsmouth”
  • Cebuano: “Portsmouth (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Portsmouth)”
  • Cebuano: “Portsmouth”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆرتسموت”
  • Chechen: “Портсмут”
  • Chinese: “Portsmouth”
  • Chinese: “普茲茅斯”
  • Chinese: “朴次茅斯”
  • Chinese: “朴茨茅斯”
  • Chinese: “樸次茅斯”
  • Chinese: “樸茨茅夫”
  • Chuvash: “Портсмут”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Portsmut”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Портсмут”
  • Croatian: “Portsmouth”
  • Czech: “Portsmouth”
  • Danish: “Portsmouth”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Portsmouth”
  • Dutch: “Havenmuiden”
  • Dutch: “Portsmouth”
  • Dutch: “Portsmuiden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورتسموث”
  • Esperanto: “Portsmouth”
  • Esperanto: “Portsmuto”
  • Estonian: “Portsmouth”
  • Finnish: “Portsmouth”
  • French: “Portsmouth, Hampshire”
  • French: “Portsmouth”
  • Galician: “Portsmouth”
  • Georgian: “პორტსმუთი”
  • German: “Portsmouth, Hampshire”
  • German: “Portsmouth”
  • Greek: “Πόρτσμουθ”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટ્સમાઉથ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Portsmouth”
  • Hausa: “Portsmouth”
  • Hebrew: “פורטסמות‘”
  • Hebrew: “פורטסמות’”
  • Hebrew: “פורטסמות”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट्समाउथ”
  • Hungarian: “Portsmouth”
  • Icelandic: “Portsmouth”
  • Ido: “Portsmouth”
  • Indonesian: “Portsmouth”
  • Irish: “Portsmouth”
  • Italian: “Portsmouth”
  • Japanese: “ポーツマス”
  • Javanese: “Portsmouth”
  • Kabyle: “Portsmouth”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ಸಮೌಥ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ಸ್ಮೌತ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kazakh: “Портсмунт”
  • Kazakh: “Портсмут”
  • Korean: “포츠머스”
  • Kurdish: “Portsmouth”
  • Ladin: “Portsmouth”
  • Latin: “Porto Ostio”
  • Latin: “Portus Magnus”
  • Latin: “Portus Ostium”
  • Latvian: “Portsmouth”
  • Latvian: “Portsmuta”
  • Limburgan: “Portsmouth”
  • Lithuanian: “Portsmouth”
  • Lithuanian: “Portsmutas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Portsmouth”
  • Macedonian: “Портсмут”
  • Malagasy: “Portsmouth”
  • Malay: “Portsmouth”
  • Maltese: “Portsmouth”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯣꯔꯠꯁꯃꯥꯎꯊ”
  • Marathi: “पोर्टस्मथ”
  • Mazanderani: “پورتسموث”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Portsmouth (Eng-lân)”
  • Moksha: “Портсмут”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پورتسموث”
  • Narom: “Porchemue”
  • Narom: “Porchémue”
  • Northern Frisian: “Portsmouth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Portsmouth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Portsmouth”
  • Norwegian: “Portsmouth”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Portsmouth”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Portesmuþa”
  • Ossetian: “Портсмут”
  • Persian: “پورتسموث”
  • Piemontese: “Portsmouth”
  • Polish: “Portsmouth”
  • Portuguese: “Portsmouth”
  • Quechua: “Portsmouth”
  • Romanian: “Portsmouth, Hampshire”
  • Romanian: “Portsmouth”
  • Russian: “Portsmouth”
  • Russian: “Портсмут”
  • Scots: “Portsmouth, Hampshire”
  • Scots: “Portsmouth”
  • Serbian: “Portsmouth”
  • Serbian: “Портсмут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Portsmouth”
  • Silesian: “Portsmouth”
  • Sinhala: “පොර්ට්ස්මවුත්”
  • Slovak: “Portsmouth”
  • Slovenian: “Portsmouth”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پورتسموث”
  • Spanish: “Portsmouth”
  • Swahili: “Portsmouth, Hampshire”
  • Swahili: “Portsmouth”
  • Swedish: “Portsmouth”
  • Tagalog: “Portsmouth”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட்ஸமௌத்”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட்ஸ்மவுத்”
  • Tatar: “Портсмут (Бөекбритания)”
  • Tatar: “Портсмут”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్స్ మౌత్”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตสมัท”
  • Turkish: “Portsmouth”
  • Ukrainian: “Портсмут”
  • Urdu: “پورٹسماؤتھ”
  • Uzbek: “Portsmut”
  • Venetian: “Portsmouth”
  • Veps: “Portsmut”
  • Vietnamese: “Portsmouth”
  • Volapük: “Portsmouth”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Portsmouth”
  • Welsh: “Llongborth”
  • Welsh: “Portsmouth, Hampshire”
  • Welsh: “Portsmouth”
  • Western Frisian: “Portsmouth”
  • Wu Chinese: “港口城”
  • Yiddish: “פארטסמוט”
  • Yue Chinese: “樸茨茅夫”
  • “Portsmouth”

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