Kingston

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Contents 1 Places 1.1 Australia 1.2 Canada 1.3 Jamaica 1.4 New Zealand 1.5 United Kingdom 1.5.1 England 1.5.2 Scotland 1.6 United States 2 People 3 Others 4 See also

Kingston is widely accepted as a contraction of the English "King's Town", of which there are many examples. It may refer to:

[edit] Places

[edit] Australia

• Kingston, Australian Capital Territory, suburb of Canberra
• Kingston, Norfolk Island, capital of the territory
• Kingston, Queensland, suburb of Logan City
• Kingston SE, South Australia
• Kingston-On-Murray, South Australia
• Kingston, Tasmania, town south of Hobart
• Kingston, Victoria, town near Creswick
• City of Kingston, Victoria, suburb of Melbourne
• City of Kingston, local government area
• Division of Kingston, federal electoral district

[edit] Canada

• Kingston, New Brunswick
• Kingston, Nova Scotia
• Kingston, Ontario, largest city of this name in Canada

[edit] Jamaica

• Kingston, Jamaica, the capital of Jamaica

[edit] New Zealand

• Kingston, New Zealand, a small town at the southernmost end of Lake Wakatipu

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] England

• Kingston, Cambridgeshire
• Kingston, Devon
• Kingston, Isle of Wight
• Kingston, Kent
• Kingston, Portsmouth, Hampshire
• Kingston, Purbeck, Dorset
• Kingston by Ferring, West Sussex
• Kingston by Sea, West Sussex
• Kingston Gorse, a coastal hamlet in the Arun district of West Sussex
• Kingston near Lewes, East Sussex
• Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire
• Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Kingston upon Thames, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London
• Kingston Vale, a district in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
• Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London

[edit] Scotland

• Kingston, East Lothian
• Kingston, Moray

[edit] United States

• Kingston, California, in Kings County
• Kingston, Fresno County, California
• Kingston, Georgia
• Kingston, Illinois
• Kingston, Louisiana
• Kingston, Maryland
• Kingston, Massachusetts
• Kingston, Michigan
• Kingston, Missouri
• Kingston, New Hampshire
• Kingston, New Jersey
• Kingston, New York, original capital of the state of New York.
• Kingston, Ohio
• Kingston, Oklahoma
• Kingston, Pennsylvania
• Kingston, Rhode Island
• Kingston, Tennessee
• Kingston, Texas
• Kingston, Utah
• Kingston, Washington

[edit] People

This page or section lists people with the surname Kingston. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to their surname.

• Alex Kingston, English actress
• Charles Cameron Kingston, Australian politician
• Jack Kingston, American politician
• Kofi Kingston, ring name of Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah, Ghanaian professional wrestler.
• Maxine Hong Kingston, Chinese-American author
• Paul Elden Kingstonleader of the Mormon fundamentalist Latter Day Church of Christ
• Sean Kingston, Jamaican hip hop artist
• Wendy Kingston, Australian newsreader for Nine News
• William Kingston

[edit] Others

• HMS Kingston, several ships of the British Royal Navy
• Kingston Clan or The Latter-day Church of Christ, polygamist group in Utah, U.S.
• Kingston Communications, a UK telecommunications provider
• Kingston (HM Prison), a prison in Portsmouth, England
• Kingston (horse) (1884–1912), American racehorse
• Kingston Technology, a US maker of memory products
• The Kingston Trio, 1960s American folk-revival band

[edit] See also

• Kingstone, Somerset
• Kingston Bridge (disambiguation)
• Kington (disambiguation)
• Kingstown (disambiguation)
• Kinston (disambiguation)
• Sabina Park, cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica

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