Charing Cross

Summary

Charing Cross is a monument^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.74% of monument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (721 views/month, #6 of 809).^[2]

Key Facts

• Charing Cross is located in City of Westminster^[3].
• Charing Cross is in the country of United Kingdom^[4].
• Charing Cross's image is recorded as Charing Cross station Eleanor cross.jpg^[5].
• Charing Cross's image is recorded as Westminster, Charing Cross - geograph.org.uk - 865507.jpg^[6].
• Charing Cross's instance of is recorded as monument^[7].
• Charing Cross's instance of is recorded as area of London^[8].
• Charing Cross's shares border with is recorded as Covent Garden^[9].
• Charing Cross's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 122437731^[10].
• Charing Cross's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nr95047460^[11].
• Charing Cross's postal code is recorded as WC2^[12].
• Charing Cross's Commons category is recorded as Charing Cross^[13].
• Charing Cross's OS grid reference is recorded as TQ302804^[14].
• Charing Cross's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.5073, 'lon': -0.12755}^[15].
• Charing Cross's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dykf^[16].
• Charing Cross's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• Charing Cross's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Charing-Cross^[18].
• Charing Cross's category for people who died here is recorded as Category:Deaths in Charing Cross^[19].
• Charing Cross's GeoNames ID is recorded as 2653341^[20].
• Charing Cross's BBC Things ID is recorded as c06e3365-497e-4757-8531-0edb96978211^[21].
• Charing Cross's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -2592264^[22].
• Charing Cross's Vision of Britain place ID is recorded as 21261^[23].
• Charing Cross's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Charing_Cross^[24].
• Charing Cross's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 497345^[25].
• Charing Cross's BBC News topic ID is recorded as c4y260l80lmt^[26].
• Charing Cross's Who's on First ID is recorded as 85786429^[27].

Body

Geography

Charing Cross is in the country of United Kingdom^[4]. It is located in City of Westminster^[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include monument^[7] and area of London^[8].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Charing Cross include it tube station^[28], a London Underground station^[29], in United Kingdom^[30] and it railway station^[31], a station building^[32], in United Kingdom^[33].

Why It Matters

Charing Cross ranks in the top 0.74% of monument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (721 views/month, #6 of 809).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for it include it tube station^[28], a London Underground station^[29], in United Kingdom^[30] and it railway station^[31], a station building^[32], in United Kingdom^[33].