George Square
George Square is the principal civic square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of six squares in the city centre, the others being Cathedral Square, St Andrew's Square, St Enoch Square, Royal Exchange Square, and Blythswood Square on Blythswood Hill.Photo: Archibald99, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Glasgow Queen Street railway station and Glasgow Cenotaph.
Glasgow Queen Street railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Glasgow Queen Street is a passenger railway terminus serving the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two main line terminals; the larger is Glasgow Central. Glasgow Queen Street railway station is situated 540 feet north of George Square.
Glasgow Cenotaph
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow Cenotaph, also known as Glasgow War Memorial, is a war memorial which stands on the east side of George Square in Glasgow, in front of Glasgow City Chambers.
Gallery of Modern Art
Art gallery
Photo: BrainiacBlink, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gallery of Modern Art is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland. GoMA offers a programme of temporary exhibitions and workshops. Gallery of Modern Art is situated 610 feet southwest of George Square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glasgow and Merchant City.
Glasgow
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on Clydeside in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
Merchant City
Suburb
The Merchant City, a new name introduced through urban renewal by the Scottish Development Agency and the city council in the 1980s is one part of the metropolitan central area of Glasgow.
Townhead
Suburb
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Townhead is a district within the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of Glasgow's oldest areas, and contains two of its major surviving medieval landmarks – Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship.
George Square
- Type: Square
- Description: square in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Categories: construction and locality
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.86115° or 55° 51′ 40″ northLongitude
-4.25023° or 4° 15′ 1″ westOpen location code
9C7QVP6X+FWOpenStreetMap ID
way 674836678OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=constructionOpenStreetMap feature
place=squareWikidata ID
Q5544754
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Turkish—“George Square” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ջորջ Սքուեր”
- Azerbaijani: “Corc meydanı”
- Catalan: “George Square”
- Chinese: “乔治广场”
- Czech: “George Square”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان جورج”
- French: “George Square”
- Galician: “George Square”
- Greek: “Πλατεία Τζορτζ”
- Hebrew: “גלאזגו”
- Italian: “George Square”
- Japanese: “ジョージ・スクエア”
- Japanese: “ジョージ広場”
- Scots: “George Square”
- Slovenian: “George Square, Glasgow”
- Slovenian: “George Square”
- Spanish: “George Square”
- Turkish: “George Meydanı”
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Highlights include Scott Monument and Glasgow City Chambers.
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