National Portrait Gallery is in United Kingdom, in City of Westminster. This sheet answers with open data: what the place is, where it sits at GPS precision, when it dates from (1856) and which notable attractions lie a few kilometers away.
Data sheet
What it is
Museum
Country
United Kingdom
City or region
City of Westminster
Origin (P571)
1856
Coordinates
51.5094 N, 0.1281 W
UNESCO World Heritage
No recorded designation
Visitors per year (P1174)
2,145,486
Notability (sitelinks)
47
The 5 closest notable attractions
Attraction
Country
Distance (km)
National Gallery
United Kingdom
0.1
Nelson's Column
United Kingdom
0.2
Charing Cross
United Kingdom
0.2
Admiralty Arch
United Kingdom
0.3
London Transport Museum
United Kingdom
0.5
The closest neighbor is National Gallery, 0.1 km away in a straight line. The table above answers the question every itinerary starts with: what else is nearby?
The name in 3 languages
Português
National Portrait Gallery
English
National Portrait Gallery
Español
National Portrait Gallery
Source and method
Source
Wikidata (CC0), snapshot of 2026-07-09
Distances
Haversine over 51.5094 N, 0.1281 W and the 2,000 attractions in the snapshot
Notability
National Portrait Gallery: 47 sitelinks; closest neighbor National Gallery at 0.1 km