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Luton

district in Bedfordshire, England
Administrative Area Unitary Authority Area in England Q21683239

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
unitary authority area (1997–present), unparished area, county borough (?–1974), municipal borough (?–1964), non-metropolitan district (1974–1997)[4][5][6][7]
Inception
1876[9]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.891°, -0.428°[10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Bedfordshire[2]

Population and size

Area
43.3525 km² (2016)
Population
227k (206k–227k, n=4)[12][13][14][15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 214,700 · 214,109 · 205,800 · 226,973 GeoNames 216,791 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Authority
Luton Borough Council[11]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Luton
Legislative body
council of Luton Borough Council[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Borough of Luton en County Borough of Luton en Luton en Luton (unparished area) ru Лутон
🔖 Identifiers · 22
VIAF cluster ID
129012660
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81038875
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Luton Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 944904.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
54791
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Luton
GNS Unique Feature ID
6077610
GSS code (2011)
E06000032, E43000027
GeoNames ID
3333168
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7026516
HASC
GB.LU
INaturalist place ID
30371
ISO 3166-2 code
GB-LUT
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J9U entity ID
987007557212805171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
158392
OpenWeatherMap city ID
3333168
TOID
7000000000037536
Topic's main category
Category:Borough of Luton
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
11443
Vision of Britain unit ID
10133580, 10188970
Who's on First ID
1360698783
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJvhtcyphVvKxqFwrrPWjC
Yale LUX ID
place/78001120-ad69-4243-8de6-8384417a463f
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Summary

Luton is an unitary authority area in England[1].

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Physical Characteristics

Luton's area is recorded as 43.3525 km²[16].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . ons.maps.arcgis.com. ons.maps.arcgis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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