Loch Shin
Loch Shin is a loch in the Scottish North West Highlands. To the south is the town of Lairg. The loch, the largest in Sutherland, runs from the north-west to the south-east and is 17 miles long.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: reservoir in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows to the River Shin
- Also known as: “Lake Shin”
Loch Shin
- Categories: reservoir and body of water
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Loch Shin” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shin aintzira”
- Breton: “Loch Sìn”
- Catalan: “Loch Shin”
- Cebuano: “Loch Shin”
- Chinese: “欣湖”
- Czech: “Loch Shin”
- Dutch: “Loch Shin”
- French: “loch Shin”
- French: “Loch Shin”
- German: “Loch Shin”
- Irish: “Loch Sín”
- Irish: “Loch Sìn”
- Italian: “Loch Shin”
- Japanese: “シン湖”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loch Shin”
- Polish: “Loch Shin”
- Russian: “Лох-Шин”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Sìn”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Loch Shin”
- Swedish: “Loch Shin”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Loch Shin”. Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.