Torquay
Torquay is a town on the coast of the English Riviera and South Devon region of Devon. Since the 19th century, it has been a fashionable seaside resort in the English Riviera.Places of Interest
Highlights include Kents Cavern and Plainmoor.
Kents Cavern
Cave
Plainmoor
Stadium
Plainmoor is an association football stadium located in the Plainmoor suburb of Torquay, Devon, England. Since 1921, the stadium has been the home of Torquay United Football Club, who currently compete in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football.
Torre Abbey
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Paignton and St Marychurch.
Paignton
Paignton is a seaside town in the Torbay area of the English Riviera and South Devon region of Devon. The town, which has a history as a fishing village but is also on the railway line, is home to the well-known Paignton Zoo.St Marychurch
Suburb
St Marychurch is an area of Torquay, in the Torbay district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. It is one of the oldest settlements in South Devon.
Cockington
Suburb
Cockington is a village near Torquay, in the Torbay district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. Cockington with Chelston had a population of 8,366 in 2021. It has old cottages within its boundaries, and is about two miles from the centre of Torquay.
Torquay
- Categories: unparished area, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Torbay, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.4652° or 50° 27′ 55″ north
Longitude
-3.5211° or 3° 31′ 16″ west
Population
65,400
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB TOR
Open location code
9C2RFF8H+3G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Torquay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Torquay”
- Arabic: “توركاي”
- Armenian: “Տորկի”
- Asturian: “Torquay”
- Azerbaijani: “Torki”
- Basque: “Torquay”
- Belarusian: “Торкі”
- Bulgarian: “Торки”
- Catalan: “Torquay”
- Cebuano: “Torquay”
- Chinese: “德文郡”
- Chinese: “托基”
- Czech: “Torquay”
- Danish: “Torquay”
- Dutch: “Torquay”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توركاى”
- Esperanto: “Torquay”
- Estonian: “Torquay”
- Finnish: “Torquay”
- French: “Torquay”
- Georgian: “ტორკი”
- German: “Torquay”
- Greek: “Τορκί”
- Hebrew: “טורקי (אנגליה)”
- Hebrew: “טורקי”
- Hindi: “टॉर्क्वे”
- Hindi: “टोरकी”
- Icelandic: “Torquay”
- Inari Sami: “Torquay”
- Indonesian: “Torquay, Inggris”
- Indonesian: “Torquay”
- Interlingue: “Torquay”
- Irish: “Torquay”
- Italian: “Torquay”
- Japanese: “トーキー”
- Kalo Finnish Romani: “Torquay”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Torki (Angliya)”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Torki”
- Korean: “토키”
- Ladin: “Torquay”
- Latin: “Torcaium”
- Latin: “Torquay”
- Latvian: “Torkī”
- Lithuanian: “Torbis”
- Lithuanian: “Torki”
- Lithuanian: “Torkis”
- Lithuanian: “Torquay”
- Lule Sami: “Torquay”
- Macedonian: “Торки”
- Malagasy: “Torquay”
- Marathi: “टोरकी”
- Northern Frisian: “Torquay”
- Northern Sami: “Torquay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torquay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torquay”
- Norwegian: “Torquay”
- Persian: “تورکی”
- Pite Sami: “Torquay”
- Polish: “Torquay”
- Portuguese: “Torquay”
- Romanian: “Torquay”
- Russian: “Торквей”
- Russian: “Торки”
- Serbian: “Torki”
- Serbian: “Torquay”
- Serbian: “Торки”
- Skolt Sami: “Torquay”
- Slovenian: “Torquay”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورکی”
- Southern Sami: “Torquay”
- Spanish: “Torquay”
- Swedish: “Torquay”
- Tajik: “Торки”
- Tajik: “Торкӣ”
- Thai: “ทอร์คีย์”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Torquay”
- Turkish: “Torquay”
- Ukrainian: “Торкі”
- Ume Sami: “Torquay”
- Urdu: “ٹرکائے”
- Urdu: “ٹورکی”
- Vietnamese: “torqay”
- Volapük: “Torquay”
- Welsh: “Torquay”
- Western Frisian: “Torquay”
- Yue Chinese: “托基”
- “Torquay”
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