Wirral

Wirral is in and in , and partly in in . The northern part of the peninsula contains the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, which is wholly within Merseyside.
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  • Type: Municipality with 321,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England
  • Also known as: “distrito metropolitano de Wirral”, “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”, “Wirral (unparished area)”, “бора Уірал”, “метропольний район Віррал”, “Уірал”, “Уірал, раён”, and “伟卢”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Heswall railway station and Clatterbridge Hospital.

Railway station
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serves the town of , on the , in , England.

Hospital
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is a general hospital located…

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is a Grade I listed 14th…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Central Wirral and Heswall.

covers the villages of Barnston…

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is a town on the , England.

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is on the Wirral peninsula in .

Wirral

Latitude
53.341° or 53° 20′ 28″ north
Longitude
-3.0501° or 3° 3′ 0″ west
Population
321,000
Elevation
213 feet (65 metres)
Abbreviation
“WRL”
Open location code
9C5R8WRX+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4622721693
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
3333220
Wiki­data ID
Q11365639
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Wirral” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويرال”
  • Armenian: “Ուիրրալ”
  • Belarusian: “раён Уірал”
  • Belarusian: “Ўірал”
  • Breton: “Distrig Wirral”
  • Breton: “Wirral”
  • Bulgarian: “Уиръл”
  • Catalan: “Wirral”
  • Cebuano: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
  • Chinese: “威勒尔都会自治市”
  • Chinese: “威勒爾都會自治市”
  • Danish: “Wirral”
  • Dutch: “Wirral”
  • Esperanto: “Wirral”
  • Finnish: “Wirral”
  • French: “district métropolitain de Wirral”
  • French: “District métropolitain de Wirral”
  • German: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
  • Hebrew: “וויירל”
  • Irish: “Wirral”
  • Italian: “Borgo metropolitano di Wirral”
  • Italian: “Wirral”
  • Japanese: “ウィラル”
  • Korean: “위럴 도시 자치구”
  • Latvian: “Virala”
  • Lithuanian: “Viralas”
  • Macedonian: “Вирал”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wirral”
  • Northern Frisian: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wirral”
  • Norwegian: “Wirral”
  • Persian: “کلان‌شهر مستقل ویرال”
  • Polish: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
  • Romanian: “Wirral”
  • Russian: “Уиррал”
  • Scots: “Metropolitan Borough o Wirral”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wirral”
  • Slovenian: “Wirral”
  • Spanish: “Wirral”
  • Swedish: “Metropolitan Borough of Wirral”
  • Ukrainian: “Віррал”
  • Urdu: “میٹروپولیٹن برو ویرل”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Fetropolitan Cilgwri”

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