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St Helens

town in Merseyside, England, UK
Place town Q153647
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Summary

St Helens is a town[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,489 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: St Helens[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: big city[5], unparished area[6]
  • Shares border with: Warrington[7], Croft[8]
  • Twinned administrative body: Stuttgart[9], Chalon-sur-Saône[10]
  • Commons category: St Helens, Merseyside[11]
  • Local dialing code: 01744[12]
  • OS grid reference: SJ505955[13]
  • Official website: http://www.sthelens.gov.uk/[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:St Helens, Merseyside[15]
  • Population: 102,629[16], 183,248[17]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19]
  • Capital of: St Helens[20]
  • Official name: St Helens[21]
  • Category for people born here: Q9227500[22]
  • Native label: St Helens[23]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from St Helens, Merseyside[24]
  • Area: 136.4 km²[25]
  • Historic county: Lancashire[26]

Why It Matters

St Helens has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Bill Foulkes Chalon-sur-Saône Conor Coady David Yates John William Draper Malcolm C. Harrison Thomas Beecham United Kingdom

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.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside. wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . United Kingdom Census 2001. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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  1. 14d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'be', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es'
    Gnd id → 4352406-0
    Sitelink count → 48
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 7w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'St Helens'}
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48043|batch #48043]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 21w ago · Feeleman · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
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    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Native label: St Helens"
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