Preston
non-metropolitan district with city status in Lancashire, England
Facts
15 properties- Instance of
- district with city status, non-metropolitan district, borough in the United Kingdom[4][5]
- Inception
- April 1, 1974[8]
- Country
- United Kingdom[3]
- Official website
- www.preston.gov.uk[11]
- Website
- www.preston.gov.uk
- Located in
- Lancashire
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 53.759°, -2.699°[9]
- Area
- 142.2936
- Authority
- Preston City Council[10]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 53.759°, -2.699°
- Legislative body
- council of Preston City Council[7]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Lancashire[2]
- Native label
- City of Preston
🏷️ Also known as
en City of Preston
en Preston
es Ciudad de Preston
fa پرستون
fi Prestonin kaupunki
fr cité de Preston
he הסיטי של פרסטון
ja シティ・オブ・プレストン
ko 시티오브프레스턴
ru Престон
sv Preston District
tr Preston Şehri
zh 普雷斯頓市
🔖 Identifiers · 13
- VIAF cluster ID
- 155926635
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Beacon Fell 235-35.jpg ↗
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 49352
- Freebase ID
- /m/0crjn65
- GSS code (2011)
- E07000123
- GeoNames ID
- 7290581
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 1003627
- MusicBrainz area ID
- 0b173450-80db-4624-a175-ec41baf40d27
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 148606
- TOID
- 7000000000004853
- Topic's main category
- Category:City of Preston, Lancashire
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 12252
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- Vision of Britain unit ID
- 10197260
⛏️ Lake Facts
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London
2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 17
Instance of 2
Capital 1
Country 1
Legislative body 1
People born here 1
Topic's main category 1
← Applies to jurisdiction 1
← Capital of 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
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