Swindon
Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, south west England, that is known for its railway-town heritage and links with the British railway system in which it played a central part during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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- Type: Town with 233,000 residents
- Description: town in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “County of Swindon”, “Swindon, England”, “Swindon, Inglaterra”, “سوِنڈن، انگلستان”, “สวินดอน”, “스윈돈”, and “스윈든”
Places of Interest
Highlights: County Ground and Swindon Railway Station.
County Ground
Stadium
Photo: Swindonx, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stratton St Margaret and Haydon Wick.
Stratton St Margaret
Village
Stratton St Margaret is a civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Stratton St Margaret is situated 2 miles northeast of Swindon.
Haydon Wick
Suburb
Covingham
Suburb
Swindon
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Wroughton, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.5615° or 51° 33′ 42″ north
Longitude
-1.7854° or 1° 47′ 8″ west
Population
233,000
Elevation
371 feet (113 metres)
Open location code
9C3WH667+JR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Swindon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Swindon”
- Arabic: “سويندون”
- Aragonese: “Swindon”
- Armenian: “Սուինդոն”
- Asturian: “Swindon”
- Azerbaijani: “Svindon”
- Basque: “Swindon”
- Belarusian: “Суіндан”
- Belarusian: “Сўіндан”
- Bengali: “সুইন্ডন”
- Breton: “Swindon”
- Bulgarian: “Суиндън”
- Catalan: “Swindon”
- Cebuano: “Swindon (kapital sa kondado)”
- Cebuano: “Swindon”
- Chinese: “史雲頓”
- Chinese: “威尔特郡”
- Chinese: “威爾特郡”
- Chinese: “斯温顿”
- Czech: “Swindon”
- Danish: “Swindon”
- Dutch: “Swindon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سويندون”
- Esperanto: “Svindono”
- Esperanto: “Swindon”
- Estonian: “Swindon”
- Finnish: “Swindon”
- French: “Swindon”
- German: “Swindon”
- Greek: “Σουίντον”
- Gujarati: “સ્વિન્ડન”
- Hebrew: “סווינדון”
- Hungarian: “Swindon”
- Icelandic: “Swindon”
- Ido: “Swindon”
- Indonesian: “Swindon”
- Irish: “Swindon”
- Italian: “Swindon”
- Japanese: “スウィンドン”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ವಿಂಡನ್”
- Korean: “스윈던”
- Ladin: “Swindon”
- Latin: “Swindon”
- Latvian: “Svindona”
- Lithuanian: “Svindonas”
- Luxembourgish: “Swindon”
- Malagasy: “Swindon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Swindon (koān)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Swindon”
- Northern Frisian: “Swindon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Swindon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swindon”
- Norwegian: “Swindon”
- Ossetian: “Суиндон”
- Persian: “سوئیندون”
- Polish: “Swindon”
- Portuguese: “Swindon”
- Quechua: “Swindon”
- Romanian: “Swindon”
- Russian: “Свиндон”
- Russian: “Суиндон”
- Sardinian: “Swindon”
- Scots: “Swindon”
- Serbian: “Svindon”
- Serbian: “Свиндон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Swindon”
- Silesian: “Swindon”
- Slovak: “Swindon”
- Slovenian: “Swindon”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوئیندون”
- Spanish: “Swindon”
- Swahili: “Swindon”
- Swedish: “Swindon”
- Tamil: “ஸ்வின்டோன்”
- Tatar: “Свиндон”
- Telugu: “స్విండన్”
- Thai: “สวินดัน”
- Turkish: “Swindon”
- Ukrainian: “Свіндон”
- Urdu: “سوِنڈن”
- Urdu: “سوینڈن”
- Venetian: “Swindon”
- Volapük: “Swindon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Swindon”
- Welsh: “Swindon”
- Wu Chinese: “斯温登”
- Yue Chinese: “史雲頓”
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