Salford
Salford is a city in Greater Manchester in northwest England, with a population of 130,000 in 2021. It's separated from the City of Manchester by a loop of the River Irwell. Its biggest attraction is the Quays, but this area is described on a separate page.
Photo: Andrewlee1967, Public domain.
- Type: City with 259,000 residents
- Description: city in Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Salford, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Old Trafford and Salford Crescent railway station.
Old Trafford
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Salford Crescent railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Quays and Spinningfields-Albert Square.
Salford
- Categories: big city, unparished area, and locality
- Location: Salford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.4877° or 53° 29′ 16″ north
Longitude
-2.2892° or 2° 17′ 21″ west
Population
259,000
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB SFY
Open location code
9C5VFPQ6+38
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Salford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سالفورد”
- Armenian: “Սալֆորդ”
- Asturian: “Salford”
- Azerbaijani: “Solford”
- Balinese: “Kota Salford”
- Basque: “Salford”
- Belarusian: “Солфард”
- Bengali: “স্যালফোর্ড”
- Bulgarian: “Солфорд”
- Catalan: “Salford”
- Cebuano: “Salford”
- Chechen: “Солфорд”
- Chinese: “沙柳津”
- Chinese: “沙福特”
- Chinese: “索尔福德”
- Chinese: “索爾福德”
- Chinese: “蘇福”
- Czech: “Salford”
- Dimli (individual language): “Salford”
- Dutch: “Salford”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سالفورد”
- Esperanto: “Salford”
- Finnish: “Salford”
- French: “Salford”
- Galician: “Salford”
- Georgian: “სელფორდი”
- German: “Salford”
- Greek: “Σάλφορντ”
- Gujarati: “સેલફોર્ડ”
- Hebrew: “סלפורד, אנגליה”
- Hebrew: “סלפורד”
- Hungarian: “Salford”
- Icelandic: “Salford”
- Indonesian: “Salford”
- Irish: “Salford”
- Italian: “Salford”
- Japanese: “サルフォード”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಲ್ಫರ್ಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Солфорд”
- Korean: “솔퍼드”
- Kurdish: “Salford”
- Ladin: “Salford”
- Latvian: “Solforda”
- Lithuanian: “Salfordas”
- Low German: “Salford”
- Luxembourgish: “Salford”
- Macedonian: “Солфорд”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯥꯜꯐꯣꯔ꯭ꯗ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salford”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salford”
- Norwegian: “Salford”
- Persian: “سالفورد، منچستر بزرگ”
- Persian: “سالفورد”
- Polish: “Salford”
- Portuguese: “Salford”
- Romanian: “Salford”
- Russian: “Солфорд”
- Scots: “Salford”
- Serbian: “Салфорд”
- Serbian: “Солфорд”
- Silesian: “Salford”
- Slovak: “Salford”
- Slovenian: “Salford”
- South Azerbaijani: “سالفورد، منچستر بزرق”
- Spanish: “Salford”
- Swedish: “Salford”
- Tagalog: “Salford”
- Tamil: “சால்போர்ட்”
- Tatar: “Солфорд”
- Telugu: “సల్ఫోర్డ్”
- Thai: “ซอลฟอร์ด”
- Turkish: “Salford”
- Ukrainian: “Солфорд”
- Urdu: “سالفورڈ”
- Venetian: “Salford”
- Volapük: “Salford”
- Welsh: “Salford”
- Western Frisian: “Salford”
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