Caithness
Caithness is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. There are two towns: Wick, which was the county town, and Thurso.
- Locality with about 26,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 300 feet (90 metres)
- Description: historic county, registration county, and lieutenancy area of Scotland
- Also known as“Caithness County”“Caithness-shire”
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Latitude
58.4167° or 58° 25′ north
Longitude
-3.5° or 3° 30′ west
Open location code
9CCRCG82+M2
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Caithness” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيثنس”
- Basque: “Caithness”
- Belarusian: “Кейтнес”
- Breton: “Caithness”
- Breton: “Gallaibh”
- Catalan: “Caithness”
- Cebuano: “Caithness-shire”
- Chinese: “凱斯內斯”
- Chinese: “凱瑟尼斯”
- Czech: “Caithness”
- Czech: “Gallaibh”
- Danish: “Caithness”
- Dutch: “Caithness”
- Esperanto: “Caithness”
- Finnish: “Caithness”
- French: “Caithness”
- German: “Caithness”
- Hebrew: “קיית’נס”
- Icelandic: “Caithness”
- Icelandic: “Gallaibh”
- Indonesian: “Caithness”
- Irish: “Cataibh”
- Irish: “Gallaibh”
- Italian: “Caithness”
- Japanese: “ケイスネス”
- Japanese: “ケイスネスシャー”
- Korean: “갈리브주”
- Korean: “케이스네스 주”
- Kurdish: “Caithness”
- Latin: “Caithness”
- Latin: “Cathanesiensis”
- Latvian: “Keitnesa”
- Lithuanian: “Kaitnas”
- Macedonian: “Кејтнес”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caithness”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Katanes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Caithness”
- Norwegian: “Caithness”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cattanæs”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caþanǣs”
- Persian: “کیثنس”
- Polish: “Caithness”
- Portuguese: “Caithness”
- Russian: “Кейтнесс”
- Scots: “Caithness”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gallaibh”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caithness”
- Slovenian: “Caithness”
- Spanish: “Caithness”
- Swedish: “Caithness”
- Swedish: “Katanäs”
- Turkish: “Caithness”
- Ukrainian: “Кейтнесс”
- Urdu: “کیتھ نیس”
- Venetian: “Caithness”
- Welsh: “Caithness”
- Welsh: “Cothnais”
- Yiddish: “קייטנעס”
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