Kensington

district within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London
Place area_of_london Q288781
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Summary

Kensington is an area of London[1]. Kensington ranks in the top 2% of area of london entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,018 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Shares border with: Notting Hill[5]
  • Postal code: SW7[6], SW5[7]
  • Commons category: Kensington[8]
  • OS grid reference: TQ255795[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kensington[10]
  • Population: 64,681[11]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[14]
  • Capital of: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea[15], Metropolitan Borough of Kensington[16]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Kensington[17]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Kensington[18]
  • Native label: Kensington[19]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Kensington[20]
  • Historic county: Middlesex[21]

Why It Matters

Kensington has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Kensington is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · Mario988 · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image license type → —
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    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo',
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    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Image: Kensington from the air in 1909.jpg"
  2. 5w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Historical gazetteer (gov) id → KENTONIO91VM
    Historic county → Middlesex
    Openstreetmap way id → 1069664429
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap way id: 1069664429, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/1069664429 in United States"
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