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Aberdeen

Aberdeen is the third-largest city in , , with a population of almost 200,000. It is a harbour city on Scotland's north-east coast, approximately 120 miles north of Edinburgh and 400 miles north of London, where the Rivers Dee and Don meet the North Sea.
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  • Type: City with 193,000 residents
  • Description: city in Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Aberdeen, Scotland”, “Aiberdeen”, “Aiberdein”, “Granite City”, “Obar Dheathain”, and “The Silver City”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pittodrie Stadium and Aberdeen railway station.

Stadium
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, commonly referred to as Pittodrie, from which the surrounding residential area has taken its name, is an all-seater stadium in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Railway station
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is the main railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the busiest railway station in Scotland north of the major cities of and .

Church
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St Machar's Cathedral is a Church of Scotland church in Aberdeen, , located to the north of the city centre, in the former burgh of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bridge of Don and Torry.

Suburb
is a suburb in the north of Aberdeen, . In 2020, the electoral ward was estimated to have a population of 19,545. is split into four areas for statistical purposes by Aberdeen City Council and Police Scotland: Balgownie and Donmouth, , Denmore and Oldmachar.

Suburb
is a suburb of Aberdeen, , lying on the south bank of the River Dee. It was historically part of the county of Kincardineshire and was absorbed into the city of Aberdeen in 1891.

Suburb
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is an area of Aberdeen, . When referring to , the area is generally taken to include Place and the surrounding streets.

Aberdeen

Latitude
57.1482° or 57° 8′ 54″ north
Longitude
-2.0928° or 2° 5′ 34″ west
Population
193,000
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
IATA airport code
ABZ
United Nations Location Code
GB ABD
Open location code
9C9V4WX4+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21063362
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2657832
Wiki­data ID
Q36405
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Aberdeen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aberdeen, Skotland”
  • Afrikaans: “Aberdeen”
  • Albanian: “Aberdeen”
  • Arabic: “أبردين”
  • Arabic: “ابردين”
  • Aragonese: “Aberdeen”
  • Armenian: “Աբերդին”
  • Armenian: “Էբերդին”
  • Asturian: “Aberdeen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aberdin”
  • Balinese: “Aberdeen”
  • Bashkir: “Абердин”
  • Basque: “Aberdeen”
  • Basque: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Belarusian: “Абердзін”
  • Belarusian: “Абэрдын”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাবরদিন”
  • Bengali: “এবারডিন সিটি”
  • Bosnian: “Aberdeen”
  • Breton: “Aberdeen”
  • Breton: “Obair Dheathain”
  • Breton: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Bulgarian: “Абърдийн”
  • Burmese: “အဗာဒင်းမြို့”
  • Burmese: “အဘာဒင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Aberdeen”
  • Catalan: “Aiberdein”
  • Catalan: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Cebuano: “Aberdeen”
  • Chinese: “Aberdeen”
  • Chinese: “亞伯丁”
  • Chinese: “阿伯丁”
  • Chinese: “阿伯丁市”
  • Chinese: “鴨巴甸”
  • Chinese: “鸭巴甸”
  • Corsican: “Aberdeen”
  • Croatian: “Aberdeen”
  • Croatian: “Aiberdein”
  • Croatian: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Czech: “Aberdeen”
  • Czech: “Aiberdein”
  • Czech: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Danish: “Aberdeen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Aberdeen”
  • Dutch: “Aberdeen City Council”
  • Dutch: “Aberdeen”
  • Dutch: “Aiberdein”
  • Dutch: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابردين”
  • Erzya: “Абердин”
  • Esperanto: “Aberdeen”
  • Esperanto: “Aberdino”
  • Esperanto: “Aiberdeen”
  • Esperanto: “Aiberdein”
  • Esperanto: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Estonian: “Aberdeen”
  • Estonian: “Aiberdeen”
  • Faroese: “Aberdeen”
  • Finnish: “Aberdeen”
  • French: “Aberdeen City”
  • French: “Aberdeen”
  • French: “Aiberdeen”
  • French: “Aiberdein”
  • French: “City of Aberdeen”
  • French: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Galician: “Aberdeen - Aiberdeen - Obar Dheathain”
  • Galician: “Aberdeen, Escocia”
  • Galician: “Aberdeen”
  • Georgian: “აბერდინი”
  • German: “Aberdeen”
  • German: “Aiberdein”
  • German: “GB-ABE”
  • German: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Greek: “Αμπερντήν”
  • Greek: “Αμπερντίν”
  • Gujarati: “એબરડિન”
  • Gujarati: “એબરડીન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Â-pak-tên”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Aberdeen”
  • Hebrew: “אברדין”
  • Hindi: “एबरडीन”
  • Hungarian: “Aberdeen”
  • Icelandic: “Abeerdeen”
  • Icelandic: “Aberdeen”
  • Indonesian: “Aberdeen”
  • Interlingue: “Aberdeen”
  • Irish: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Italian: “Aberdeen”
  • Italian: “Aiberdein”
  • Italian: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Japanese: “アバーディーン”
  • Japanese: “アバディーン・シティ”
  • Japanese: “アバディーン”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬರ್ಡೀನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬರ್ದೀನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Абердин”
  • Korean: “애버딘”
  • Kurdish: “Aberdeen”
  • Latin: “Aberdonia”
  • Latin: “Devana”
  • Latin: “Devanha”
  • Latvian: “Aberdeen”
  • Latvian: “Aberdīna”
  • Latvian: “Aiberdeen”
  • Latvian: “Aiberdein”
  • Latvian: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Lithuanian: “Aberdeen”
  • Lithuanian: “Aberdinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Aberdynas”
  • Lithuanian: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Lombard: “Aberdeen”
  • Low German: “Aberdeen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Aberdeen”
  • Macedonian: “Абердин”
  • Malagasy: “Aberdeen”
  • Malay: “Aberdeen”
  • Malayalam: “Aberdeen”
  • Malayalam: “അബർഡീൻ”
  • Maltese: “Aberdeen”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯕꯔꯗꯤꯟ”
  • Manx: “Aberdon”
  • Maori: “Aberdeen”
  • Marathi: “ॲबर्डीन”
  • Marathi: “अ‍ॅबर्डीन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aberdeen”
  • Moksha: “Абэрдин”
  • Mongolian: “Абердин”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aberdeen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aberdeen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aberdeen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “City of Aberdeen”
  • Norwegian: “Aberdeen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aberdeen”
  • Ossetian: “Абердин”
  • Persian: “آبردین”
  • Persian: “ابردین”
  • Piemontese: “Aberdeen”
  • Polish: “Aberdeen”
  • Polish: “Aiberdein”
  • Polish: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Portuguese: “Aberdeen”
  • Portuguese: “Aiberdein”
  • Portuguese: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Pushto: “ابردين”
  • Pushto: “ابردین”
  • Pushto: “ابېردين”
  • Quechua: “Aberdeen”
  • Romanian: “Aberdeen”
  • Russian: “Абердин”
  • Russian: “Абердон”
  • Russian: “Эбердин”
  • Samogitian: “Aberdīns”
  • Scots: “Aberdeen”
  • Scots: “Aiberdeen”
  • Scots: “Ceety o Aiberdeen”
  • Scots: “Ceity o Aiberdeen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aberdeen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Serbian: “Aberdeen”
  • Serbian: “Аберден”
  • Serbian: “Абердин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aberdeen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aberdin”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aiberdein”
  • Silesian: “Aberdeen”
  • Sindhi: “ايبرڊين”
  • Sinhala: “ඇබර්ඩීන්”
  • Slovak: “Aberdeen”
  • Slovenian: “Aberdeen”
  • Slovenian: “GB-ABE”
  • Slovenian: “Granitno mesto”
  • Slovenian: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Slovenian: “Srebrno mesto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ابردین”
  • Spanish: “Aberdeen Escocia”
  • Spanish: “Aberdeen”
  • Spanish: “Aiberdeen”
  • Spanish: “Aiberdein”
  • Spanish: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Swahili: “Aberdeen”
  • Swedish: “Aberdeen”
  • Swedish: “Aiberdeen”
  • Swedish: “Aiberdein”
  • Swedish: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Tagalog: “Aberdeen”
  • Tajik: “Абердин”
  • Talysh: “Aberdin”
  • Tamil: “அபெர்டின்”
  • Tamil: “அபெர்டீன்”
  • Tatar: “Әбердин”
  • Telugu: “అబెర్డీన్”
  • Thai: “Aberdeen”
  • Thai: “อเบอร์ดีน”
  • Thai: “อะเบอร์ดีน”
  • Thai: “อาเบอร์ดีน”
  • Thai: “แอเบอร์ดีน”
  • Turkish: “Aberdeen”
  • Ukrainian: “Абердин”
  • Ukrainian: “Абердін”
  • Ukrainian: “Ебердин”
  • Urdu: “ابرڈین”
  • Uzbek: “Aberdin”
  • Venetian: “Aberdeen”
  • Vietnamese: “Aberdeen”
  • Volapük: “Aberdeen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aberdeen”
  • Welsh: “Aberdeen”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Aberdeen”
  • Western Frisian: “Aberdeen”
  • Western Panjabi: “ابردین”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿伯丁”
  • Yiddish: “אבערדין”
  • Yiddish: “אַבערדין”
  • Yoruba: “Aberdeen”
  • Yue Chinese: “鴨巴甸”
  • “Aberdeen”
  • “Aberdīns”

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