Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in Hampshire, on the south coast of England. A busy cruise ship and container port, Southampton is the European end of the last Transatlantic ocean liner route, the Queen Mary II to New York, and in 1912 was the point of departure for the Titanic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Ronald Saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 254,000 residents
- Description: city and major port in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Soton”, “Southampton, Hampshire”, and “Southampton, UK”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Southampton Central railway station and Mayflower Theatre.
Southampton Central railway station
Railway station
Photo: Arriva436, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Southampton Central is a main line railway station serving the city of Southampton in Hampshire, southern England. It is on the South West Main Line and also serves the Wessex Main Line and the West Coastway Line.
Mayflower Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Turquoisefish, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mayflower Theatre is a Grade II listed theatre in the city centre of Southampton, England, with a capacity of 2,300. It features West End theatre shows when they tour the United Kingdom.
Solent Sky
Museum
Photo: Nimbus227, Public domain.
Solent Sky is an aviation museum in Southampton, England. The museum depicts the history of aviation in Southampton, the Solent area and Hampshire. There is a focus on Supermarine, the aircraft company based in Woolston, Southampton, and its most famous products, the Supermarine S.6 seaplane and the Supermarine Spitfire, designed by a team led R.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hythe and Portswood.
Hythe
Hythe is a town in Hampshire, a county in England. This article also covers Fawley and the surrounding area.
Portswood
Suburb
Portswood is a suburb and electoral ward of Southampton, England. The suburb lies to the north-north-east of the city centre and is bounded by Freemantle, Highfield, Swaythling, St.
Woolston
Suburb
Photo: Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woolston is a suburb of Southampton, located on the eastern bank of the River Itchen. It is bounded by the River Itchen, Sholing, Peartree Green, Itchen and Weston.
Southampton
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.9025° or 50° 54′ 9″ northLongitude
-1.4042° or 1° 24′ 15″ westPopulation
254,000Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)IATA airport code
SOUOpen location code
9C2WWH3W+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 2478628079OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Southampton” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Southampton”
- Arabic: “ساوثمبتون”
- Arabic: “ساوثهامبتون”
- Arabic: “سوثهامبتون”
- Aragonese: “Southampton”
- Armenian: “Սաութհեմփթոն”
- Asturian: “Southampton”
- Azerbaijani: “Sauthempton”
- Azerbaijani: “Southempton”
- Balinese: “Southampton”
- Bashkir: “Саутгемптон”
- Basque: “Southampton”
- Belarusian: “Саўтгемптан”
- Belarusian: “Саўтгэмптан”
- Bengali: “সাউদাম্পটন”
- Bosnian: “Southampton”
- Breton: “Southampton”
- Bulgarian: “Саутхамптън”
- Bulgarian: “Саутхемптън”
- Bulgarian: “Саутхямптън”
- Burmese: “ဆောက်သမ္ပတန်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Sotonian”
- Catalan: “Southampton”
- Cebuano: “Southampton (kapital sa kondado)”
- Cebuano: “Southampton”
- Central Kurdish: “ساوتھامپتن”
- Chinese: “Southampton”
- Chinese: “修咸頓”
- Chinese: “修汉普顿”
- Chinese: “南安普敦”
- Chinese: “南安普顿”
- Chinese: “南普頓”
- Chuvash: “Саутгемптон”
- Croatian: “Southampton”
- Czech: “Southampton”
- Danish: “Southampton”
- Dimli (individual language): “Southampton”
- Dutch: “Southampton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساوثهامبتون”
- Esperanto: “Saŭtamptono”
- Esperanto: “Southampton”
- Estonian: “Southampton”
- Extremaduran: “Southampton”
- Faroese: “Southampton”
- Finnish: “Southampton”
- French: “Southampton”
- Galician: “Southampton”
- Georgian: “საუთჰემპტონი”
- German: “Southampton”
- Greek: “Southampton”
- Greek: “Σαουθάμπτον”
- Greek: “Σαουθάμπτων”
- Gujarati: “દક્ષિણહેમ્પ્ટન”
- Gujarati: “સાઉથહેમ્પ્ટન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Southampton”
- Hausa: “Southampton”
- Hebrew: “סאות’האמפטון”
- Hebrew: “סאות’המפטון”
- Hindi: “साउथहैंपटन”
- Hindi: “साउथैम्प्टन”
- Hungarian: “Southampton”
- Icelandic: “Southampton”
- Ido: “Southampton”
- Inari Sami: “Southampton”
- Indonesian: “Southampton”
- Interlingue: “Southampton”
- Irish: “Southampton”
- Italian: “Southampton”
- Japanese: “サウサンプトン”
- Japanese: “サウザンプトン”
- Japanese: “サウスハプトン”
- Japanese: “サウスハンプトン”
- Japanese: “サザンプトン”
- Kannada: “ಸೌತಾಂಪ್ಟನ್”
- Kazakh: “Саутгемптон”
- Korean: “사우샘프턴”
- Korean: “사우스햄턴”
- Korean: “사우스햄튼”
- Korean: “사우스햄프턴”
- Kurdish: “Southampton”
- Ladin: “Southampton”
- Latin: “Hantonia”
- Latvian: “Sauthemptona”
- Latvian: “Southampton”
- Lithuanian: “Sautamptonas”
- Lithuanian: “Sauthamptonas”
- Lithuanian: “Sauthemptonas”
- Lithuanian: “Southampton”
- Luxembourgish: “Southampton”
- Macedonian: “Саутхемптон”
- Malay: “Southampton”
- Maltese: “Southampton”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯥꯎꯊꯑꯦꯝꯞꯇꯟ”
- Marathi: “साउथहँप्टन”
- Mazanderani: “ساوتهمپتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Southampton”
- Narom: “Hantonne”
- Northern Frisian: “Southampton”
- Northern Sami: “Southampton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Southampton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Southampton”
- Norwegian: “Southampton”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Southampton”
- Ossetian: “Саутгемптон”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਊਥਹੈਂਪਟਨ”
- Persian: “ساوت هامپتون”
- Persian: “ساوت همپتون”
- Persian: “ساوتهمپتون”
- Persian: “ساوث همپتون”
- Piemontese: “Southampton”
- Polish: “Hamwic”
- Polish: “Southampton”
- Portuguese: “Southampton”
- Quechua: “Southampton”
- Romanian: “Southampton”
- Russian: “Southampton”
- Russian: “Саут-Гемптон”
- Russian: “Саутгемптон”
- Russian: “Саутхемптон”
- Scots: “Southampton”
- Serbian: “Southampton”
- Serbian: “Саутемптон”
- Serbian: “Саутхемптон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Southampton”
- Silesian: “Southampton”
- Sinhala: “සදම්ප්ටන්”
- Skolt Sami: “Southampton”
- Slovak: “Southampton”
- Slovenian: “Southampton”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساوتهمپتون”
- Spanish: “Hamwic”
- Spanish: “Hamwith”
- Spanish: “Southampton”
- Swahili: “Southampton”
- Swedish: “Southampton”
- Tagalog: “Southampton”
- Tajik: “Совт-ҳемптун”
- Tamil: “சவுத்தாம்டன்”
- Tamil: “சௌதாம்ப்டன்”
- Tatar: “Саутһәмптон”
- Telugu: “సౌతాంప్టన్”
- Thai: “Southampton”
- Thai: “เซาท์แทมป์ตัน”
- Thai: “เซาท์แธมป์ตัน”
- Thai: “เซาแทมป์ตัน”
- Thai: “เซาธ์แทมป์ตัน”
- Thai: “เซาธ์แธมป์ตัน”
- Thai: “เซาแธมป์ตัน”
- Turkish: “Southampton”
- Ukrainian: “Саутгемптон”
- Upper Sorbian: “Southampton”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ ہیمپٹن”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھمپٹن”
- Uzbek: “Sautxempton”
- Venetian: “Southampton”
- Vietnamese: “Southampton”
- Volapük: “Southampton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Southampton”
- Welsh: “Southampton”
- Western Frisian: “Southampton”
- Western Panjabi: “ساؤتھمپٹن”
- Wu Chinese: “南安普顿”
- Yiddish: “סאטהעמפטן”
- Yue Chinese: “修咸頓”
- “Southampton”
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