Durham
Durham is a city in County Durham in North East England, with a population of 23,175 in 2021. The name probably derives from "Dun-holme", or hill-island, because it's set on a ridge above a tight loop of the River Wear.Photo: Jungpionier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Durham Castle
Photo: Carla Brain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Durham Castle is a Norman castle in the city of Durham, England, which has been occupied since 1837 by University College, Durham after its previous role as the residence of the Bishops of Durham.
Durham railway station
Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Durham is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley.
Durham Miners' Hall
Photo: derek dye, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Redhills is Grade II listed headquarters building of the Durham Miners' Association in Durham, England.
Localities in the Area
Ushaw Moor
Ushaw Moor is an old pit village in County Durham, in England, on the north side of the River Deerness.Sacriston
Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sacriston is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, situated 3 miles north of the city of Durham.
Durham
- Type: City with 42,100 residents
- Description: city and the county town of County Durham in North East England
- Categories: county town and locality
- Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.777° or 54° 46' 37" northLongitude
-1.5756° or 1° 34' 32" westPopulation
42,100Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)IATA airport code
MMEUnited Nations Location Code
GB DRHOpen Location Code
9C6WQCGF+RQOpenStreetMap ID
node 21181736OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2650628Wikidata ID
Q179815Durham Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Durham
- Arabic: Durham
- Arabic: درم
- Arabic: درهام
- Arabic: درهام، إنجلترا
- Arabic: دورهام، إنجلترا
- Armenian: Դարհեմ
- Asturian: Durham
- Bashkir: Дарем
- Basque: Durham
- Belarusian: Дарэм
- Bengali: ডারহাম
- Breton: Durham
- Bulgarian: Дърам
- Catalan: Durham
- Cebuano: Durham (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)
- Cebuano: Durham
- Chinese: Durham
- Chinese: 對衡
- Chinese: 德倫
- Chinese: 杜咸
- Chinese: 达勒姆
- Chinese: 達拉謨
- Cornish: Durham
- Czech: Durham
- Danish: Durham
- Dimli (individual language): Durham
- Dutch: Durham
- Egyptian Arabic: دورهام, انجلترا
- English: Durham, England
- English: Durham City
- Esperanto: Durham
- Estonian: Durham
- Finnish: Durham
- French: Durham
- Galician: Durham, Inglaterra
- Galician: Durham
- Georgian: დარემი
- German: Durham
- Greek: Ντάραμ
- Greek: Ντάρχαμ
- Gujarati: ડરહામ
- Hebrew: דרהאם
- Hindi: डरहम
- Hungarian: Durham
- Icelandic: Durham
- Indonesian: Durham
- Irish: Durham
- Italian: Durham
- Italian: Durham Coalfield
- Japanese: ダラム
- Japanese: ダラム市
- Japanese: ダーラム
- Kannada: ಡರ್ಹಮ್
- Kazakh: Дарем
- Korean: 더럼
- Kurdish: Durham
- Latin: Dunelm
- Latin: Dunelmum
- Latvian: Darema
- Lithuanian: Daramas
- Luxembourgish: Durham
- Malay: Durham
- Marathi: डरहम
- Mazanderani: دورهام
- Min Nan Chinese: Durham (Eng-lân)
- Moksha: Дарэм
- Narom: Durham
- Northern Frisian: Durham
- Norwegian: Durham
- Norwegian Bokmål: Durham
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Durham
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Durham i England
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Dunholm
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Dúnholm
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Dūnholm
- Ossetian: Дарем
- Persian: دورام
- Persian: دورهام
- Polish: Durham
- Portuguese: Durham
- Quechua: Durham
- Romanian: Durham
- Russian: Дарем
- Russian: Дархем
- Russian: Дарэм
- Russian: Дергем, город в Англии
- Scottish Gaelic: Durham
- Serbian: Daram
- Serbian: Durham
- Serbian: Дарам
- Serbian: Дарем
- Serbo-Croatian: Durham
- Silesian: Durham
- Sinhala: ඩර්හැම්
- Slovak: Durham
- Slovenian: Durham, Anglija
- South Azerbaijani: دورام
- Spanish: Ciudad de Durham
- Spanish: Durham
- Swedish: Durham (grevskapshuvudort i Storbritannien)
- Swedish: Durham
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Durham
- Tajik: Дарем
- Tamil: டர்ஹாம்
- Telugu: డోరెమ్
- Thai: เดอรัม
- Thai: เดอแรม
- Thai: เดอแรห์ม
- Turkish: Durham
- Uighur: Durham
- Uighur: دۇرھام
- Ukrainian: Дарем
- Urdu: ڈرہم
- Urdu: ڈرہم، انگلستان
- Vietnamese: Durham
- Volapük: Durham
- Waray (Philippines): Durham
- Welsh: Caerweir
- Welsh: Durham
- Welsh: Dyrham
- Western Frisian: Durham
- Wu Chinese: 达勒姆
- Yiddish: דארהאם
- Yue Chinese: 對衡
- डरहम, इंग्लैंड
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