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Blantyre

Blantyre is a town and civil parish in , Scotland, with a population of 16,900. It is bounded by the to the north, the to the west, the Park Burn to the east and the Rotten Burn to the south.
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  • Type: Town with 17,500 residents
  • Description: town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Blantyre, Lanarkshire”, “Blantyre, South Lanarkshire”, and “Llantyr”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Calderside Academy and Blantyre railway station.

School
is a Scottish secondary school in Blantyre. It was created by merging two local secondary schools on the land where Blantyre High School was.

Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the burgh of Blantyre, near Hamilton in , . It is located on the Argyle Line, 14 km south east of .

Museum
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a biographical museum in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, dedicated to the life and work of the explorer and missionary David Livingstone.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Auchinraith and Burnbank.

Quarter
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , Scotland.

Suburb
is an area in the town of , , Scotland. It was formerly a separate mining village before being absorbed into the town.

Town
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a in the council area of Scotland and part of the area. It lies on the north bank of the , adjacent to and Hamilton, 9 miles east-south-east of city centre.

Blantyre

Latitude
55.79352° or 55° 47′ 37″ north
Longitude
-4.09231° or 4° 5′ 32″ west
Population
17,500
Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)
Open location code
9C7QQWV5+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 270995917
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
11592111
Wiki­data ID
Q881708
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Blantyre” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բլենտայր”
  • Asturian: “Blantyre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blantir”
  • Basque: “Blantyre”
  • Belarusian: “Блантайр”
  • Bengali: “ব্লানটিরে”
  • Catalan: “Blantyre”
  • Cebuano: “Blantyre”
  • Chinese: “布兰太尔”
  • Chinese: “布兰泰尔”
  • Chinese: “布蘭泰爾”
  • Danish: “Blantyre”
  • Dutch: “Blantyre”
  • French: “Blantyre (Ecosse)”
  • French: “Blantyre (Écosse)”
  • French: “Blantyre”
  • Georgian: “ბლანტაირი”
  • German: “Blantyre”
  • Greek: “Μπλαντάιρ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લેનટાયર”
  • Hebrew: “בלנטייר, דרום לנרקשייר”
  • Irish: “Baile an t-Saoir”
  • Irish: “Blantaidhr”
  • Italian: “Blantyre”
  • Japanese: “ブランタイヤ―”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲಾಂಟೈರ್”
  • Korean: “블랜타이어”
  • Lithuanian: “Blantiras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blantyre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blantyre i South Lanarkshire”
  • Norwegian: “Blantyre”
  • Persian: “بلانتایر”
  • Polish: “Blantyre (Szkocja)”
  • Polish: “Blantyre”
  • Portuguese: “Blantyre”
  • Romanian: “Blantyre”
  • Russian: “Блантир”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile an t-Saoir”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Blantaidhr”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Blantyre”
  • Slovenian: “Blantyre”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلانتایر”
  • Spanish: “Blantyre”
  • Swedish: “Blantyre (Skottland)”
  • Swedish: “Blantyre, Skottland”
  • Tamil: “ப்ளாண்ட்யர்”
  • Telugu: “, బ్ల్యాన్టై”
  • Ukrainian: “Блантайр (Шотландія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Блантайр”
  • Urdu: “بلانتیری”
  • Welsh: “Blantaidhr”
  • Welsh: “Blantyre, De Swydd Lanark”
  • Welsh: “Blantyre”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Blantyre”. Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.