Leeds
Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire and the third largest city in Britain, though its urban area size falls behind that of Manchester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include North West and Central Leeds.
North West
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North West Leeds is a large and diverse part of the city of Leeds, extending from Burley out as far as Guiseley and the city's airport. It is especially popular with students in areas such as Burley and Hyde Park where the accommodation is cheap and close to the university.
Central Leeds
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Leeds city centre is the central business district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is roughly bounded by the Inner Ring Road to the north and the River Aire to the south and can be divided into several quarters.
West Leeds
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as South Leeds and North East.
South Leeds
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South Leeds is the southern portion of the city of Leeds, with the river Aire to the north-east, the city centre, docks and Holbeck to the north, the M621 to the west and M62 to the south.
North East
East Leeds
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East Leeds is the area of the city of Leeds between the river Aire, Easterley and Wetherby Roads, Leeds City Centre and the villages of Elmet and the Aire valley.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Elland Road and Leeds City Railway Station.
Elland Road
Stadium
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Elland Road, or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919.
Leeds City Railway Station
Railway station
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Leeds railway station serves the city centre of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It is located on New Station Street to the south of City Square, at the foot of Park Row, behind the landmark Queens Hotel.
Leeds Town Hall
Town hall
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Leeds Town Hall is a 19th-century municipal building on The Headrow, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Planned to include law courts, a council chamber, offices, a public hall, and a suite of ceremonial rooms, it was built between 1853 and 1858 to a design by the architect Cuthbert Brodrick.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beeston and Chapel Allerton.
Beeston
Suburb
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Beeston is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, located on a hill about 2 miles south of the city centre. The origins of Beeston can be traced back to the medieval period.
Chapel Allerton
Suburb
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North East Leeds is the north-eastern portion of the city of Leeds. This part of Leeds is one of the wealthiest parts of the city with many leafy, affluent districts and suburbs, as well as trendy areas such as Chapel Allerton.
Hunslet
Suburb
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Hunslet is an inner-city area in south Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is 1 mile southeast of the city centre and has an industrial past. It is situated in the Hunslet and Riverside ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds South parliamentary constituency.
Leeds
- Type: City with 766,000 residents
- Description: city in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Categories: unparished area, big city, college town, and locality
- Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.7974° or 53° 47′ 51″ northLongitude
-1.5438° or 1° 32′ 38″ westPopulation
766,000Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)IATA airport code
LBAUnited Nations Location Code
GB LBAOpen location code
9C5WQFW4+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 358309OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2644688Wikidata ID
Q39121
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Leeds” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Leeds”
- Amharic: “ሊድስ”
- Arabic: “ليدز”
- Arabic: “ليدس”
- Arabic: “لييدز”
- Aragonese: “Leeds”
- Armenian: “Լիդս”
- Asturian: “Leeds”
- Azerbaijani: “Lids”
- Balinese: “Leeds”
- Basque: “Leeds”
- Bavarian: “Leeds”
- Belarusian: “Лідс”
- Bengali: “লিডস”
- Bosnian: “Leeds”
- Breton: “Leeds”
- Bulgarian: “Лийдс”
- Catalan: “Leeds”
- Cebuano: “Leeds”
- Central Kurdish: “لیدز”
- Chechen: “Лидс”
- Chinese: “Leeds”
- Chinese: “列斯”
- Chinese: “利兹”
- Chinese: “利茲”
- Chinese: “里茲”
- Croatian: “Leeds”
- Czech: “Leeds”
- Danish: “Leeds”
- Dimli (individual language): “Leeds”
- Dutch: “Leeds”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليدز”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه ليدز”
- Esperanto: “Leeds”
- Esperanto: “Lidso”
- Estonian: “Leeds”
- Faroese: “Leeds”
- Finnish: “Leeds”
- French: “Leeds”
- Galician: “Leeds”
- Georgian: “ლიდზი”
- Georgian: “ლიდსი”
- German: “Leeds”
- Greek: “Leeds”
- Greek: “Ληντς”
- Greek: “Λιντς”
- Gujarati: “લીડ્ઝ”
- Hausa: “Leeds”
- Hebrew: “לידז”
- Hebrew: “לידס”
- Hindi: “लीड्स”
- Hungarian: “City of Leeds”
- Hungarian: “Leeds”
- Icelandic: “Leeds”
- Ido: “Leeds”
- Indonesian: “Leeds”
- Interlingua: “Leeds”
- Interlingue: “Leeds”
- Irish: “Leeds”
- Italian: “Leeds”
- Japanese: “リーズ”
- Kannada: “ಲೀಡ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Лидс”
- Kirghiz: “Лидс”
- Korean: “리즈”
- Kurdish: “Leeds”
- Ladin: “Leeds”
- Latin: “Ledesia”
- Latin: “Leedesium”
- Latin: “Leeds”
- Latin: “Leodis”
- Latin: “Loidae”
- Latin: “Loidis”
- Latvian: “Leeds”
- Latvian: “Līdsa”
- Lithuanian: “Leeds”
- Lithuanian: “Lidsas”
- Lithuanian: “Lydsas”
- Lombard: “Leeds”
- Low German: “Leeds”
- Luxembourgish: “Leeds”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Leeds”
- Macedonian: “Лидс”
- Malagasy: “Leeds”
- Malay: “Leeds”
- Malayalam: “ലീഡ്സ്”
- Maltese: “Leeds”
- Manipuri: “ꯂꯤꯗ꯭ꯁ (ꯃꯐꯝ)”
- Manipuri: “ꯂꯤꯗ꯭ꯁ”
- Manx: “Leeds”
- Marathi: “लीड्झ”
- Marathi: “लीड्स”
- Mazanderani: “لیدز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leeds”
- Nepali: “लीड्स”
- Northern Frisian: “Leeds”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leeds”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leeds”
- Norwegian: “Leeds”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Leeds”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܠܝܕܙ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܠܝܕܣ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Leeds”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Loidis”
- Ossetian: “Лидс”
- Panjabi: “ਲੀਡਸ”
- Persian: “لیدز”
- Piemontese: “Leeds”
- Polish: “Leeds”
- Portuguese: “Leeds”
- Quechua: “Leeds”
- Romanian: “Leeds”
- Russian: “Лидс”
- Sardinian: “Leeds”
- Scots: “Leeds”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Leeds”
- Serbian: “Leeds”
- Serbian: “Лидз”
- Serbian: “Лидс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Leeds”
- Silesian: “Leeds”
- Sinhala: “ලීඩ්ස්”
- Slovak: “Leeds”
- Slovenian: “Leeds”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیدز”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Leeds”
- Spanish: “Cross Gates”
- Spanish: “Leeds”
- Swahili: “Leeds”
- Swedish: “Leeds, West Yorkshire”
- Swedish: “Leeds”
- Swiss German: “Leeds”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Leeds”
- Tajik: “Лидс”
- Talysh: “Lids”
- Tamil: “இலீட்சு”
- Tamil: “லீட்சு”
- Tamil: “லீட்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Лидс”
- Telugu: “లీడ్స్”
- Thai: “ลีดส์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Leeds”
- Turkish: “Leeds”
- Twi: “Leeds”
- Uighur: “Ritis”
- Uighur: “رىتىس”
- Ukrainian: “Лідс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Leeds”
- Urdu: “لیڈز”
- Uzbek: “Lids”
- Venetian: “Leeds”
- Veps: “Lids”
- Vietnamese: “Leeds”
- Vlax Romani: “Leeds”
- Volapük: “Leeds”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leeds, West Yorkshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leeds”
- Welsh: “Leeds”
- Western Frisian: “Leeds”
- Western Panjabi: “لیڈز”
- Wu Chinese: “利兹”
- Yiddish: “לידז”
- Yue Chinese: “列斯”
- “Leeds”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Leeds”. Photo: Lad 2011, CC BY-SA 4.0.