Caithness
Caithness is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. There are two towns, being Wick, which was the county town, and Thurso.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 26,500 residents
- Description: historic county, registration county, and lieutenancy area of Scotland
- Also known as: “Caithness County” and “Caithness-shire”
Caithness
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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”
- Lithuanian: “Kaitnas”
- Macedonian: “Кејтнес”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caithness”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Katanes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Caithness”
- Norwegian: “Caithness”
- 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”
- Venetian: “Caithness”
- Welsh: “Caithness”
- Welsh: “Cothnais”
- Yiddish: “קייטנעס”
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