Leicester

town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
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Leicester

Summary

Leicester is a New England town[1]. Leicester draws 66 Wikipedia views per month (new_england_town category, ranking #104 of 511).[2]

Key Facts

  • Leicester is located in Worcester County[3].
  • Leicester is in the country of United States[4].
  • Leicester's image is recorded as Leicester Town Hall.JPG[5].
  • Leicester's instance of is recorded as New England town[6].
  • Leicester's shares border with is recorded as Worcester[7].
  • Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester is named after Leicester[8].
  • Leicester's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 158273519[9].
  • Leicester's locator map image is recorded as Worcester County Massachusetts incorporated and unincorporated areas Leicester highlighted.svg[10].
  • Leicester's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n80065976[11].
  • Leicester's postal code is recorded as 01524[12].
  • Leicester's postal code is recorded as 01542[13].
  • Leicester's postal code is recorded as 01611[14].
  • Leicester's part of is recorded as Massachusetts House of Representatives' 17th Worcester district[15].
  • Leicester's part of is recorded as Massachusetts Senate's Second Worcester district[16].
  • Leicester's Commons category is recorded as Leicester, Massachusetts[17].
  • Leicester's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 1844173[18].
  • +1713-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Leicester[19].
  • Leicester's GNIS Feature ID is recorded as 619483[20].
  • Leicester's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 42.245833333333, 'lon': -71.909166666667}[21].
  • Leicester's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0v049[22].
  • Leicester's FIPS 55-3 is recorded as 25-34795[23].
  • Leicester's official website is recorded as http://www.leicesterma.org/[24].
  • Leicester's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Leicester, Massachusetts[25].
  • Leicester's MusicBrainz area ID is recorded as 1d3e6b6a-0818-4098-a3fe-31264f8d006e[26].
  • Leicester's population is recorded as {'amount': '+10970'}[27].

Body

Geography

Leicester is in the country of United States[4]. Leicester is located in Worcester County[3]. Part of include Massachusetts House of Representatives' 17th Worcester district[15], a Massachusetts House of Representatives electoral district[28], in United States[29] and Massachusetts Senate's Second Worcester district[16], a Massachusetts Senate electoral district[30], in United States[31].

Physical Characteristics

Leicester's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q232291', 'amount': '+24.7'}[32]. Leicester's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+308'}[33]. Population counts include {'amount': '+10970'}[27] and {'amount': '+11087'}[34].

Designation and Status

Leicester's instance of is recorded as New England town[6].

History and Context

+1713-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Leicester[19]. Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester is named after Leicester[8].

Why It Matters

Leicester draws 66 Wikipedia views per month (new_england_town category, ranking #104 of 511).[2] Leicester has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Leicester is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [34] . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [33] . wikidata.org.
  28. [32] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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