Preston

Preston is a city in the county of in , with a population in 2021 of 148,000. It's a former textile and engineering town; it still makes aircraft, hosts the county local government, and has a university.
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  • City with 114,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 112 feet (34 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code XPT
  • …is also known as “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Description: city and the administrative center of Lancashire, England
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Deepdale and Preston Railway Station.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Penwortham and Howick Cross.
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Preston

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Latitude
53.7593° or 53° 45′ 34″ north
Longitude
-2.6993° or 2° 41′ 57″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB PRE
Open location code
9C5VQ852+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21436318
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2639912
Wiki­data ID
Q184090

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Preston” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Preston”
  • Arabic: “البرستون”
  • Arabic: “برستون”
  • Arabic: “برسطن”
  • Arabic: “بريستون”
  • Aragonese: “Preston”
  • Armenian: “Պրեստոն”
  • Asturian: “Preston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Preston”
  • Basque: “Preston”
  • Belarusian: “Прэстан”
  • Bengali: “প্রেসটন”
  • Bengali: “প্রেস্টন”
  • Breton: “Preston”
  • Bulgarian: “Престън”
  • Catalan: “Preston”
  • Cebuano: “Preston (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Lancashire)”
  • Cebuano: “Preston”
  • Chinese: “培士頓”
  • Chinese: “普雷斯頓”
  • Chinese: “普雷斯顿”
  • Czech: “Preston”
  • Danish: “Preston”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Preston”
  • Dutch: “Preston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برستون”
  • Esperanto: “Preston”
  • Estonian: “Preston”
  • Finnish: “Preston”
  • French: “Preston”
  • Georgian: “პრესტონი”
  • German: “Preston”
  • Greek: “Πρέστον”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રેસ્ટન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Preston”
  • Hebrew: “פרסטון”
  • Hindi: “प्रेस्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Preston”
  • Icelandic: “Preston”
  • Indonesian: “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Indonesian: “Preston”
  • Irish: “Preston”
  • Italian: “Preston”
  • Japanese: “プレストン”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರೆಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “프레스턴”
  • Kurdish: “Preston”
  • Ladin: “Preston”
  • Latvian: “Prestona”
  • Lithuanian: “Preston”
  • Lithuanian: “Prestonas”
  • Macedonian: “Престон”
  • Malay: “Preston”
  • Marathi: “प्रेस्टोन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Preston (Eng-lân)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Preston”
  • Northern Frisian: “Preston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “City of Preston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Preston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Preston i Lancashire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Preston”
  • Norwegian: “Preston”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Preosttun”
  • Ossetian: “Престон”
  • Persian: “پرستون (لانکاشیر)”
  • Persian: “پرستون”
  • Polish: “Preston”
  • Portuguese: “Preston”
  • Quechua: “Preston”
  • Romanian: “Preston”
  • Russian: “Престон”
  • Scots: “Preston”
  • Serbian: “Preston”
  • Serbian: “Престон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Silesian: “Preston”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රෙස්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Preston”
  • Slovenian: “Preston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرستون”
  • Spanish: “Preston”
  • Swahili: “Preston”
  • Swedish: “Preston”
  • Tagalog: “Preston”
  • Tamil: “பிரெஸ்டோன்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரெஸ்டோன்”
  • Tatar: “Престон”
  • Telugu: “ప్రెస్టన్”
  • Thai: “เพรสตัน”
  • Turkish: “Preston, Lancashire”
  • Turkish: “Preston”
  • Ukrainian: “Престон”
  • Urdu: “پریسٹن، لنکاشائر”
  • Urdu: “پریسٹن”
  • Venetian: “Preston”
  • Vietnamese: “Preston”
  • Volapük: “Preston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Preston”
  • Welsh: “Preston”
  • Wu Chinese: “普雷斯顿”
  • Yue Chinese: “培士頓”

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