Sutherland
Sutherland is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. The name dates from the Viking era when the area was ruled by the Jarl of Orkney; although Sutherland includes some of the northernmost land on the island of Great Britain, it was called Suðrland from the standpoint of Orkney and Caithness.
- Type: County with 12,700 residents
- Description: historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county of Scotland
- Also known as: “Sutherland County” and “サザーランド”
- Neighbors: Ross and Cromarty
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Altnaharra.
Altnaharra
Village
Sutherland
Latitude
58.2501° or 58° 15′ 0″ north
Longitude
-4.5001° or 4° 30′ 0″ west
Population
12,700
Elevation
863 feet (263 metres)
Open location code
9CCQ7F2X+2X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sutherland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساذرلاند”
- Basque: “Sutherland”
- Breton: “Sutherland”
- Bulgarian: “Сутхерландшире”
- Catalan: “Sutherland”
- Cebuano: “Sutherlandshire”
- Chinese: “修打蘭”
- Chinese: “薩瑟蘭”
- Danish: “Sutherland”
- Dutch: “Sutherland”
- Esperanto: “Sutherland”
- French: “Sutherland”
- Galician: “Sutherland”
- German: “Sutherland”
- Hebrew: “סאת’רלנד”
- Ido: “Sutherland”
- Irish: “Cataibh”
- Italian: “Sutherland”
- Japanese: “サザランド”
- Korean: “서덜랜드주”
- Kurdish: “Sutherland”
- Latin: “Sutherlandensis”
- Latvian: “Saterlenda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sutherland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sutherland”
- Norwegian: “Sutherland”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Suðraland”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūðraland”
- Persian: “ساترلند”
- Polish: “Sutherland”
- Portuguese: “Sutherland”
- Russian: “Сазерленд”
- Russian: “Сатерленд”
- Scots: “Sutherland”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cataibh”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sutherland”
- Sicilian: “Sutherland”
- Slovenian: “Sutherland”
- Spanish: “Sutherland”
- Swedish: “Sutherland”
- Turkish: “Sutherland”
- Urdu: “سدرلینڈ”
- Venetian: “Sutherland”
- Welsh: “Swydd Sutherland”
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