Forth Bridge

The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the in the east of , 9 miles west of central . Completed in 1890, it is considered a symbol of Scotland, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Bridge
  • Description: railway bridge in eastern Scotland
  • Also known as: “Forth Rail Bridge”, “forth railway bridge”, and “The Forth Bridge”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Inch Garvie and Forth Road Bridge.

Islet
Photo: Kitkatcrazy, Public domain.
Inchgarvie or is a small, uninhabited island in the . On the rocks around the island sit four caissons that make up the foundations of the Forth Bridge.

Bridge
The is a suspension bridge that crosses the in . The bridge opened in 1964 and, at the time, was the longest suspension bridge in the world outside the United States. is situated 3,200 feet west of Forth Bridge.

Public aquarium
Photo: Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an aquarium located in the village of in , Scotland. It is host to a collection of large sand tiger sharks, also known as ragged toothed sharks or grey nurse sharks, and various other species of shark. is situated 2,900 feet north of Forth Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Queensferry and South Queensferry.

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is a village in in central Scotland, with a population of just over 1000 in 2022. It's on the north bank of the Firth of Forth, at a narrow point that has been a ferry crossing for many centuries.

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is a town on the south bank of the Firth of Forth in , 10 miles west of Edinburgh. Historically it was the ferry port for crossing to Fife, then in modern times it acquired three bridges.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in . It is located on the south side of the , 1 mile southeast of and 8 miles west of city centre.

Forth Bridge

Latitude
56.00056° or 56° 0′ 2″ north
Longitude
-3.38861° or 3° 23′ 19″ west
Open location code
9C8R2J26+6H
Geo­Names ID
6695705
Wiki­data ID
Q275
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Forth Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جسر فورث”
  • Armenian: “Ֆորտ Բրիջ”
  • Asturian: “Ponte de Forth”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fort körpüsü”
  • Basque: “Forth Bridge”
  • Catalan: “Pont de Forth”
  • Catalan: “Pont del Forth”
  • Central Kurdish: “پردی فۆرت”
  • Chinese: “福夫橋”
  • Chinese: “福斯桥”
  • Chinese: “福斯橋”
  • Chinese: “福斯铁路桥”
  • Chinese: “福斯鐵路橋”
  • Croatian: “Forth Bridge”
  • Czech: “Forth Bridge”
  • Czech: “Forth Rail Bridge”
  • Danish: “Forth Bridge”
  • Danish: “Forthbroen”
  • Dutch: “Forth Bridge”
  • Esperanto: “Ponto Forth”
  • Estonian: “Forthi sild”
  • Finnish: “Forth Bridge”
  • Finnish: “Forthin rautatiesilta”
  • Finnish: “Forthin silta”
  • French: “Forth Bridge”
  • French: “pont du Forth”
  • French: “Pont du Forth”
  • Galician: “Ponte de Forth”
  • Galician: “Ponte do Forth”
  • Georgian: “ფორტ-ბრიჯი”
  • German: “Forth Bridge”
  • Greek: “Γέφυρα Φορθ”
  • Hebrew: “גשר פורת‘”
  • Hebrew: “גשר פורת’”
  • Hebrew: “גשר פורת”
  • Hindi: “फोर्त ब्रिड्ज”
  • Hungarian: “Forth Bridge”
  • Hungarian: “Forth-híd”
  • Icelandic: “Forth-brúin”
  • Indonesian: “Jembatan Forth”
  • Irish: “Droichead Foirthe”
  • Italian: “Forth Bridge”
  • Italian: “Forth Rail Bridge”
  • Italian: “Forth Railway Bridge”
  • Japanese: “フォース橋”
  • Japanese: “フォース鉄道橋”
  • Korean: “포스 교”
  • Korean: “포스교”
  • Latvian: “Fortas tilts”
  • Lithuanian: “Forto tiltas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Firth-of-Forth-Stroossebréck”
  • Maltese: “Pont ta‘ Forth”
  • Maltese: “Pont ta’ Forth”
  • Nepali: “फोर्थ ब्रिज”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Forth Bridge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Forthbroen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forthbrua”
  • Norwegian: “Forthbroen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pont del Forth”
  • Persian: “پل فورث”
  • Polish: “Forth Bridge”
  • Portuguese: “ponte do Forth”
  • Portuguese: “Ponte do Forth”
  • Romanian: “podul Forth”
  • Russian: “Форт-Бридж”
  • Scots: “Forth Brig”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Forth Bridge”
  • Slovak: “Forth Railway Bridge”
  • Slovenian: “Most čez zaliv Forth”
  • Spanish: “Forth Bridge”
  • Spanish: “Puente de Forth”
  • Swedish: “Forthbron”
  • Tamil: “ஃபோர்த் மேம்பாலம்”
  • Thai: “สะพานฟอร์ท”
  • Turkish: “Forth Köprüsü”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Брідж”
  • Vietnamese: “Cầu Forth”
  • Welsh: “Pont reilffordd Forth”
  • Wu Chinese: “福斯桥”

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