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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society, often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 members, with its work reaching the public through publications, research groups and lectures.
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  • Type: Voluntary association
  • Description: British learned society
  • Also known as: “Geographical Society of London”, “Institute of British Geographers”, “RGS”, “rgs.org”, “Royal Geographical Society of London”, and “The Royal Geographical Society”
  • Address: 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial.

Theater building
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The is a concert hall on the northern edge of , , England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. is situated 510 feet west of Royal Geographical Society.

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The is a Gothic Revival ciborium in , , designed and dedicated to the memory of Prince Albert of . is situated 680 feet northwest of Royal Geographical Society.

Museum
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The in is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in , the others being the Science Museum and the . is situated 1,800 feet south of Royal Geographical Society.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Knightsbridge and South Kensington.

Suburb
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is a residential and retail district in , south of . It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the .

Suburb
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is a district at the West End of in the . Historically it settled on part of the scattered village of .

Suburb
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, sometimes called Old , is an area in the in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of in the county of .

Royal Geographical Society

Latitude
51.50132° or 51° 30′ 5″ north
Longitude
-0.17523° or 0° 10′ 31″ west
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Royal Geographical Society” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية”
  • Armenian: “Թագավորական աշխարհագրական ընկերություն”
  • Asturian: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Basque: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Belarusian: “Каралеўскае геаграфічнае таварыства”
  • Bulgarian: “Британско кралско географско дружество”
  • Bulgarian: “Кралско географско дружество”
  • Catalan: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆمەڵەی جوگرافیی پاشایەتی”
  • Chinese: “皇家地理学会会员”
  • Chinese: “皇家地理學會”
  • Chinese: “英國皇家地理學會”
  • Croatian: “Kraljevsko geografsko društvo”
  • Czech: “Královská geografická společnost”
  • Danish: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Dutch: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الجمعيه الجغرافيه الملكيه”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝa Geografia Societo”
  • Finnish: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • French: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • French: “Société royale de géographie”
  • Galician: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Georgian: “სამეფო გეოგრაფიული საზოგადოება”
  • German: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Greek: “Βασιλική Γεωγραφική Εταιρεία”
  • Hebrew: “החברה הגאוגרפית המלכותית”
  • Hungarian: “Brit Királyi Földrajzi Társaság”
  • Irish: “Cumann Ríoga na Tíreolaíochta”
  • Italian: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Japanese: “王立地理学会”
  • Korean: “왕립지리학회”
  • Latin: “Regia Societas Geographica”
  • Luxembourgish: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Macedonian: “Кралско географско друштво”
  • Maltese: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Norwegian: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Ossetian: “Къароладон географион æхсæнад”
  • Persian: “انجمن سلطنتی جغرافیا”
  • Polish: “Królewskie Towarzystwo Geograficzne”
  • Polish: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Portuguese: “Real Sociedade Geográfica”
  • Romanian: “Societatea Regală de Geografie din Marea Britanie”
  • Russian: “Королевское географическое общество”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Comann Cruinn-eòlais Rìoghail”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kraljevsko geografsko društvo”
  • Slovenian: “Kraljeva geografska družba”
  • Slovenian: “Kraljevo geografsko društvo”
  • Slovenian: “RGS”
  • Slovenian: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Spanish: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Swedish: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Tatar: “Британ патша география җәмгыяте”
  • Turkish: “Kraliyet Coğrafya Kurumu”
  • Turkish: “Kraliyet Coğrafya Topluluğu”
  • Ukrainian: “Королівське географічне товариство”
  • Urdu: “رائل جیوگرفیکل سوسائٹی”
  • Urdu: “شاہی جغرافیائی جمعیت”
  • Vietnamese: “Hiệp hội Địa lý Hoàng gia Anh”
  • Vietnamese: “Hội Địa lý Hoàng gia Vương quốc Liên hiệp Anh”
  • Welsh: “Royal Geographical Society”
  • Welsh: “Y Gymdeithas Ddaearyddiaeth Frenhinol”
  • Welsh: “Y Gymdeithas Ddaearyddol Frenhinol”
  • Western Armenian: “Թագաւորական Աշխարհագրական Ընկերութիւն”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Milestone and Statue of Ernest Shackleton.

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