South Kingstown
South Kingstown is a town in the South County region of Rhode Island. South Kingstown showcases some of Rhode Island's oldest buildings, including the campus of the University of Rhode Island in the central village of Kingston.Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Town with 30,600 residents
- Description: town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States
- Also known as: “South Kingstown, Rhode Island” and “South Kingstown, RI”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wakefield and Kingston.
Wakefield
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Wakefield is a village of the town of South Kingstown in the state of Rhode Island. Settlers came to Wakefield early in the 18th century due to its proximity to the Saugatucket River.
Kingston
Village
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Kingston is a village and a census-designated place within the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, and the site of the main campus of the University of Rhode Island.
Wakefield
Village
Photo: JacobKlinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wakefield is a village in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, and the commercial center of South Kingstown. Together with the village of Peace Dale, it is treated by the U.S. Census as a component of the census-designated place identified as Wakefield-Peacedale. West Kingston, another South Kingstown village, was the traditional county seat of Washington County. Wakefield is situated 2½ miles southeast of South Kingstown.
South Kingstown
- Categories: county seat, town of Rhode Island, and locality
- Location: Town of South Kingstown, South County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.4549° or 41° 27′ 18″ northLongitude
-71.5395° or 71° 32′ 22″ westPopulation
30,600Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)United Nations Location Code
US S7KOpen location code
87HCFF36+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 2439158519OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“South Kingstown” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساوث كينغستاون”
- Basque: “South Kingstown”
- Catalan: “South Kingstown”
- Chechen: “Саут-Кингстаун”
- Chinese: “南京斯頓”
- Chinese: “南國王鎮”
- Chinese: “南金斯敦”
- Dutch: “South Kingstown”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساوث كينجستاون”
- Esperanto: “South Kingstown”
- French: “South Kingstown”
- German: “South Kingstown”
- Haitian: “South Kingstown, Rhode”
- Haitian: “South Kingstown”
- Hebrew: “סאות‘ קינגסטאון”
- Hungarian: “South Kingstown”
- Indonesian: “Kingstown Selatan, Rhode Island”
- Indonesian: “Kingstown Selatan”
- Irish: “South Kingstown”
- Italian: “South Kingstown”
- Japanese: “サウス・キングスタウン”
- Japanese: “サウス・キングズタウン”
- Japanese: “サウスキングスタウン”
- Japanese: “サウスキングズタウン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Kingstown”
- Norwegian: “South Kingstown”
- Polish: “South Kingstown”
- Portuguese: “South Kingstown”
- Russian: “Саут-Кингстаун”
- Scottish Gaelic: “South Kingstown”
- Serbian: “Саут Кингстаун”
- Slovenian: “South Kingstown”
- Spanish: “South Kingstown (Rhode Island)”
- Spanish: “South Kingstown”
- Swedish: “South Kingstown”
- Tatar: “Саут-Кингстаун”
- Turkish: “South Kingstown, Rhode Island”
- Turkish: “South Kingstown”
- Ukrainian: “Саут-Кінгстаун”
- Urdu: “جنوبی کنگز ٹاؤن، روڈ آئلینڈ”
- Urdu: “جنوبی کنگز ٹاؤن”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Kingstown, Đảo Rhode”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Kingstown, Rhode Island”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Kingstown”
- Vietnamese: “South Kingstown, Đảo Rhode”
- Vietnamese: “South Kingstown, Rhode Island”
- Vietnamese: “South Kingstown”
- Volapük: “South Kingstown”
- Waray (Philippines): “South Kingstown, Rhode Island”
- Waray (Philippines): “South Kingstown”
- Welsh: “South Kingstown, Rhode Island”
- Welsh: “South Kingstown”
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