Leicester Square
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. Location of the Leicester Square area in London…Photo: Romazur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: square in London, United Kingdom
- Neighbors: Covent Garden
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Mattimeus, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
London Eye
Ferris wheel
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The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London.
Royal Opera House
Theatre
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The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.
National Gallery
Art gallery
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The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.
Localities in the Area
Covent Garden
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Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.
Mayfair-Marylebone
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Mayfair and Marylebone are districts of central London.
Bloomsbury
This article is about three neighbourhoods of central London: Bloomsbury, St Pancras and Fitzrovia.
Leicester Square
- Categories: square, pedestrian zone, tourism, recreation area and tourist attraction
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51044° or 51° 30' 38" northLongitude
-0.13013° or 0° 7' 49" westElevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open Location Code
9C3XGV69+5WOpenStreetMap ID
way 4082589OpenStreetMap Feature
leisure=parkOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
11777625Wikidata ID
Q848912Leicester Square Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: ليستر سكوير
- Basque: Leicester Square
- Chinese: 李斯特廣場
- Chinese: 莱斯特广场
- Chinese: 萊斯特廣場
- Czech: Leicester Square
- Danish: Leicester Square
- Dutch: Leicester Square
- Egyptian Arabic: ليستر سكوير
- Finnish: Leicester Square
- French: Leicester Square
- German: Leicester Square
- Greek: Πλατεία Λέστερ
- Hebrew: אזור כיכר לסטר
- Hebrew: כיכר לסטר
- Hebrew: לסטר סקוור
- Icelandic: Leicester Square
- Indonesian: Lapangan Leicester
- Irish: Cearnóg Leicester
- Italian: Leicester Square
- Japanese: レスタースクウェア
- Japanese: レスタースクエア
- Japanese: レスター・スクウェア
- Japanese: レスター・スクエア
- Korean: 레스터 광장
- Lithuanian: Lesterio aikštė
- Malay: Dataran Leicester
- Norwegian: Leicester Square
- Norwegian Bokmål: Leicester Square
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Leicester Square
- Persian: میدان لستر
- Polish: Leicester Square
- Russian: Лестер-сквер
- Serbo-Croatian: Leicester Square
- Sicilian: Leicester Square
- Slovak: Leicester Square
- Spanish: Leicester Square
- Swedish: Leicester Square
- Turkish: Leicester Meydanı
- Welsh: Sgwâr Leicester
- Yue Chinese: Leicester Square
Other Places Named Leicester Square
In the Area
Leicester Square is situated close to the suburb Chinatown and the neighbourhood Seven Dials.
- SohoSuburb
- Soho
- St James'sNeighbourhood
- St GilesNeighbourhood
- Pelican RockLocality
- St Clement DanesNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Leicester Square. Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.