Bloomsbury

This article is about three neighbourhoods of central : Bloomsbury, St Pancras and Fitzrovia. Bloomsbury is the hub of London's university district, is home to the British Museum and is next to the British Library.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Leicester Square and London St Pancras International.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

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is a major international rail interchange and shopping destination in . It is the British capital's only international station, with Eurostar services connecting the city with destinations in mainland .

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The is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Covent Garden and Holborn-Clerkenwell.

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is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of , and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.

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is a district in central that is in many ways a buffer zone between London's West End and the City of London financial district.

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is a district of central , part of the West End, famous for jazz, its gay village, sex shops and alternative lifestyles.

Bloomsbury

Latitude
51.5211° or 51° 31′ 16″ north
Longitude
-0.12896° or 0° 7′ 44″ west
Population
10,900
Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGVCC+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27365033
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
12048275
Wiki­data ID
Q150120
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bloomsbury” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bloomsbury”
  • Arabic: “Bloomsbury”
  • Arabic: “بلومزبري”
  • Basque: “Bloomsbury”
  • Belarusian: “Блумзбэры”
  • Belarusian: “Блумсберы”
  • Bulgarian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Bulgarian: “Блумсбъри”
  • Catalan: “Bloomsbury”
  • Chinese: “Bloomsbury”
  • Chinese: “布卢姆茨伯里”
  • Chinese: “布林斯貝利”
  • Chinese: “布盧姆茨伯里”
  • Chinese: “布盧姆茨伯里出版社”
  • Chinese: “布鲁姆斯伯里”
  • Chuvash: “Блумсбери”
  • Czech: “Bloomsbury”
  • Danish: “Bloomsbury”
  • Dutch: “Bloomsbury (Londen)”
  • Dutch: “Bloomsbury”
  • Esperanto: “Bloomsbury”
  • Estonian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Finnish: “Bloomsbury”
  • French: “Bloomsbury”
  • Galician: “Bloomsbury”
  • Georgian: “ბლუმსბერი”
  • German: “Bloomsbury”
  • Greek: “Μπλούμσμπερι”
  • Hebrew: “Bloomsbury”
  • Hebrew: “בלומסברי”
  • Hungarian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Icelandic: “Bloomsbury”
  • Indonesian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Irish: “Bloomsbury”
  • Italian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Japanese: “Bloomsbury”
  • Japanese: “ブルームスベリー”
  • Korean: “Bloomsbury”
  • Korean: “블룸즈버리”
  • Macedonian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Macedonian: “Блумзбери”
  • Macedonian: “Блумсбери”
  • Malay: “Bloomsbury”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bloomsbury”
  • Norwegian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Persian: “بلومزبری”
  • Persian: “بلومزبوری”
  • Polish: “Bloomsbury”
  • Portuguese: “Bloomsbury”
  • Russian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Russian: “Блумсбери”
  • Slovak: “Bloomsbury”
  • Slovenian: “Bloomsbury”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلومزبری”
  • Spanish: “Bloomsbury”
  • Swedish: “Bloomsbury, London”
  • Swedish: “Bloomsbury”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠥꠟꠥꠝꠥꠍꠛꠦꠞꠤ”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Bloomsbury”
  • Turkish: “Bloomsbury”
  • Ukrainian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Ukrainian: “Блумзбері”
  • Ukrainian: “Блумсбері”
  • Urdu: “Bloomsbury”
  • Urdu: “بلومزبری”
  • Vietnamese: “Bloomsbury”
  • Welsh: “Bloomsbury”
  • Western Frisian: “Bloomsbury”
  • Wu Chinese: “布卢姆茨伯里”
  • Yue Chinese: “般士馝”

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