Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a large city in the county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England. Portsmouth plays a major role in British history, especially naval history.Photo: AlanFord, Public domain.
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Stella Ridley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
HMS Victory
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
Fratton Park
Photo: Thom32, Public domain.
Fratton Park is a football ground in Portsmouth, England and is the home of Portsmouth F.C..
HMS Warrior
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861.
Localities in the Area
Gosport
Photo: Julian Colander, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gosport is a town in Hampshire, a short water ride away from Portsmouth.
Southsea
Photo: Martyn Pattison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southsea is a seaside resort and a geographic area of Portsmouth, Portsea Island in England.
Cosham
Photo: Michael Ford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cosham is a northern suburb of Portsmouth lying within the city boundary but off Portsea Island.
Portsmouth
- Type: City with 198,000 residents
- Description: city in Hampshire, England
- Categories: big city, port settlement and locality
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.8° or 50° 48' 0" northLongitude
-1.0906° or 1° 5' 26" westPopulation
198,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
GB PMEOpen Location Code
9C2WRW25+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 17721995OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2639996Wikidata ID
Q72259Portsmouth Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Portsmouth
- Afrikaans: Portsmouth
- Arabic: Portsmouth
- Arabic: بورتسماوث
- Arabic: بورتسموث
- Armenian: Պորտսմութ
- Asturian: Portsmouth
- Azerbaijani: Portsmut
- Basque: Portsmouth
- Belarusian: Портсмут (горад)
- Belarusian: Портсмут (места)
- Belarusian: Портсмут
- Bengali: পোর্টসমাথ
- Bengali: পোর্টস্ মাথ
- Bengali: পোর্টস্মাউথ
- Bengali: পোর্টস্মাথ
- Breton: Portsmouth
- Bulgarian: Портсмут
- Bulgarian: Портсмът
- Catalan: Portsmouth
- Cebuano: Portsmouth (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Portsmouth)
- Cebuano: Portsmouth
- Central Kurdish: پۆرتسموت
- Chechen: Портсмут
- Chinese: Portsmouth
- Chinese: 普茲茅斯
- Chinese: 朴次茅斯
- Chinese: 朴茨茅斯
- Chinese: 樸次茅斯
- Chinese: 樸茨茅夫
- Chuvash: Портсмут
- Crimean Tatar: Portsmut
- Crimean Tatar: Портсмут
- Croatian: Portsmouth
- Czech: Portsmouth
- Danish: Portsmouth
- Dimli (individual language): Portsmouth
- Dutch: Havenmuiden
- Dutch: Portsmouth
- Dutch: Portsmuiden
- Egyptian Arabic: بورتسموث
- English: Portsmouth, England
- English: Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Esperanto: Portsmouth
- Esperanto: Portsmuto
- Estonian: Portsmouth
- Finnish: Portsmouth
- French: Portsmouth
- French: Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Galician: Portsmouth
- Georgian: პორტსმუთი
- German: Portsmouth
- German: Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Greek: Πόρτσμουθ
- Gujarati: પોર્ટ્સમાઉથ
- Hakka Chinese: Portsmouth
- Hausa: Portsmouth
- Hebrew: פורטסמות'
- Hebrew: פורטסמות
- Hindi: पोर्ट्समाउथ
- Hungarian: Portsmouth
- Icelandic: Portsmouth
- Ido: Portsmouth
- Indonesian: Portsmouth
- Irish: Portsmouth
- Italian: Portsmouth
- Japanese: ポーツマス
- Javanese: Portsmouth
- Kabyle: Portsmouth
- Kannada: ಪೋರ್ಟ್ಸಮೌಥ್
- Kannada: ಪೋರ್ಟ್ಸ್ಮೌತ್ ನಗರ
- Kazakh: Портсмунт
- Korean: 포츠머스
- Kurdish: Portsmouth
- Ladin: Portsmouth
- Latin: Porto Ostio
- Latin: Portus Magnus
- Latin: Portus Ostium
- Latvian: Portsmouth
- Latvian: Portsmuta
- Limburgan: Portsmouth
- Lithuanian: Portsmouth
- Lithuanian: Portsmutas
- Luxembourgish: Portsmouth
- Macedonian: Портсмут
- Malay: Portsmouth
- Manipuri: ꯄꯣꯔꯠꯁꯃꯥꯎꯊ
- Marathi: पोर्टस्मथ
- Mazanderani: پورتسموث
- Min Nan Chinese: Portsmouth (Eng-lân)
- Mongolian: ꯄꯣꯔꯠꯁꯃꯥꯎꯊ
- Moroccan Arabic: پورتسموث
- Narom: Porchemue
- Narom: Porchémue
- Northern Frisian: Portsmouth
- Norwegian: Portsmouth
- Norwegian Bokmål: Portsmouth
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Portsmouth
- Occitan (post 1500): Portsmouth
- Persian: پورتسموث
- Polish: Portsmouth
- Portuguese: Portsmouth
- Quechua: Portsmouth
- Romanian: Portsmouth
- Russian: Portsmouth
- Russian: Портсмут
- Scots: Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Scots: Portsmouth
- Serbian: Portsmouth
- Serbian: Портсмут
- Serbo-Croatian: Portsmouth
- Silesian: Portsmouth
- Sinhala: පොර්ට්ස්මවුත්
- Slovak: Portsmouth
- Slovenian: Portsmouth
- South Azerbaijani: پورتسموث
- Spanish: Portsmouth
- Swahili: Portsmouth
- Swedish: Portsmouth
- Tagalog: Portsmouth
- Tamil: போர்ட்ஸமௌத்
- Tamil: போர்ட்ஸ்மவுத்
- Tatar: Портсмут (Бөекбритания)
- Tatar: Портсмут
- Telugu: పోర్ట్స్ మౌత్
- Thai: Portsmouth
- Thai: พอร์ตสมัท
- Thai: พอร์ทสมัธ
- Turkish: Portsmouth
- Ukrainian: Портсмут
- Urdu: پورٹسماؤتھ
- Uzbek: Portsmut
- Venetian: Portsmouth
- Veps: Portsmut
- Vietnamese: Portsmouth
- Volapük: Portsmouth
- Waray (Philippines): Portsmouth
- Welsh: Llongborth
- Welsh: Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Welsh: Portsmouth
- Western Frisian: Portsmouth
- Wu Chinese: 港口城
- Yiddish: פארטסמוט
- Yue Chinese: 樸茨茅夫
Other Places Named Portsmouth
In the Area
- PortseaSuburb
- Portico: Prospect Road entranceLocality
- Flathouse QuayLocality
- FrattonSuburb
- Old PortsmouthSuburb
- The PointLocality
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