Whitstable
Whitstable is a town on the north coast of Kent in southeast England. It's famous for its oysters, and grew up in the 18th and 19th centuries as a fishing port, general harbour and seaside resort.
- Type: Town with 30,200 residents
- Description: town in Kent, England
- Also known as: “ويستبول”, “ウィスタブル”, “ウィトスタブル”, “ホイットスタブル”, “惠茨特布尔”, and “惠茨特布爾”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Paste, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Whitstable railway station and Whitstable Museum and Gallery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seasalter and Tankerton.
Whitstable
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3606° or 51° 21′ 38″ north
Longitude
1.0241° or 1° 1′ 27″ east
Population
30,200
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB WTS
Open location code
9F33926F+7J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Whitstable” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وايتستابل”
- Asturian: “Whitstable”
- Basque: “Whitstable”
- Belarusian: “Уітстабл”
- Catalan: “Whitstable”
- Cebuano: “Whitstable”
- Chinese: “惠斯塔布”
- Chinese: “惠特斯特布尔”
- Chinese: “惠特斯特布爾”
- Croatian: “Whitstable”
- Czech: “Whitstable”
- Danish: “Whitstable”
- Dutch: “Whitstable”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وايتستابل”
- Esperanto: “Whitstable”
- Estonian: “Whitstable”
- Finnish: “Whitstable”
- French: “Whitstable”
- Galician: “Whitstable”
- German: “Whitstable”
- Irish: “Whitstable”
- Italian: “Whitstable”
- Japanese: “ケント州”
- Ladin: “Whitstable”
- Moksha: “Витстабл”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whitstable”
- Persian: “ویتستبل”
- Polish: “Whitstable”
- Romanian: “Whitstable”
- Russian: “Витстабл”
- Russian: “Уитстабл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Whitstable”
- Slovak: “Whitstable”
- Spanish: “Whitstable”
- Swedish: “Whitstable”
- Ukrainian: “Вітстабл”
- Urdu: “وٹسٹینبل”
- Volapük: “Whitstable”
- Welsh: “Whitstable”
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Places to explore: Lower Island and Thurston Park.
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