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: “Abaraidhean”, “Abeerdeen”, “Aberdeen - Aiberdeen - Obar Dheathain”, “Aberdeen City”, “Aberdeen City Council”, “Aberdeen Escocia”, “Aberdeen, Scotland”, “Aberdinas”, “Aiberdein”, “Ceety o Aiberdeen”, “Ceity o Aiberdeen”, “City of Aberdeen”, “Devana”, “Dinas Aberdeen”, “GB-ABE”, “Granite City”, “Granitno mesto”, “Obaireathain”, “Srebrno mesto”, “The Silver City”, “Аберден”, “Абердон”, “Ебердин”, “Эбердин”, “Էբերդին”, “ابېردين”, “এবারডিন সিটি”, “એબરડિન”, “அபெர்டீன்”, “ಅಬರ್ಡೀನ್”, “อเบอร์ดีน”, “อะเบอร์ดีน”, “อาเบอร์ดีน”, “အဗာဒင်းမြို့”, “アバーディーン”, “アバディーン・シティ”, “阿伯丁市”, and “鸭巴甸”
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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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serves the city of Aberdeen in north east 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, Scotland, 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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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Aragonese: “Aberdeen”
  • Armenian: “Աբերդին”
  • Asturian: “Aberdeen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aberdin”
  • Balinese: “Aberdeen”
  • Bashkir: “Абердин”
  • Basque: “Aberdeen”
  • Belarusian: “Абердзін”
  • Belarusian: “Абэрдын”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাবরদিন”
  • Bosnian: “Aberdeen”
  • Breton: “Obair Dheathain”
  • Breton: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Bulgarian: “Абърдийн”
  • Burmese: “အဘာဒင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Aberdeen”
  • Cebuano: “Aberdeen”
  • Chinese: “亞伯丁”
  • Chinese: “阿伯丁”
  • Chinese: “鴨巴甸”
  • Corsican: “Aberdeen”
  • Croatian: “Aberdeen”
  • Czech: “Aberdeen”
  • Danish: “Aberdeen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Aberdeen”
  • Dutch: “Aberdeen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابردين”
  • Erzya: “Абердин”
  • Esperanto: “Aberdeen”
  • Esperanto: “Aberdino”
  • Estonian: “Aberdeen”
  • Faroese: “Aberdeen”
  • Finnish: “Aberdeen”
  • French: “Aberdeen”
  • Galician: “Aberdeen, Escocia”
  • Galician: “Aberdeen”
  • Georgian: “აბერდინი”
  • German: “Aberdeen”
  • Greek: “Αμπερντήν”
  • Greek: “Αμπερντίν”
  • Gujarati: “એબરડીન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Â-pak-tên”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Aberdeen”
  • Hebrew: “אברדין”
  • Hindi: “एबरडीन”
  • Hungarian: “Aberdeen”
  • Icelandic: “Aberdeen”
  • Ido: “Aberdeen”
  • Indonesian: “Aberdeen”
  • Interlingue: “Aberdeen”
  • Irish: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Italian: “Aberdeen”
  • Japanese: “アバディーン”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬರ್ದೀನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆಬೆರ್ಡೀನ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Абердин”
  • Kashmiri: “ایٚبَرڈیٖن”
  • Kazakh: “Абердин”
  • Korean: “애버딘”
  • Kurdish: “Aberdeen”
  • Latin: “Aberdonia”
  • Latin: “Devanha”
  • Latvian: “Aberdīna”
  • Lithuanian: “Aberdynas”
  • Lombard: “Aberdeen”
  • Low German: “Aberdeen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Aberdeen”
  • Macedonian: “Абердин”
  • Malagasy: “Aberdeen”
  • Malay: “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: “Aberdeen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aberdeen”
  • Ossetian: “Абердин”
  • Persian: “آبردین”
  • Persian: “ابردین”
  • Piemontese: “Aberdeen”
  • Polish: “Aberdeen”
  • Portuguese: “Aberdeen”
  • Pushto: “ابردین”
  • Quechua: “Aberdeen”
  • Romanian: “Aberdeen”
  • Russian: “Абердин”
  • Samogitian: “Aberdīns”
  • Scots: “Aiberdeen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Obar Dheathain”
  • Serbian: “Абердин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aberdeen”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းဢပႃႇတိၼ်း”
  • Silesian: “Aberdeen”
  • Sindhi: “ايبرڊين”
  • Sinhala: “ඇබර්ඩීන්”
  • Slovak: “Aberdeen”
  • Slovenian: “Aberdeen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ابردین”
  • Spanish: “Aberdeen”
  • Swahili: “Aberdeen”
  • Swedish: “Aberdeen”
  • Tagalog: “Aberdeen”
  • Tajik: “Абердин”
  • Talysh: “Aberdin”
  • Tamil: “அபெர்டின்”
  • Tatar: “Әбердин”
  • Telugu: “అబెర్డీన్”
  • Thai: “แอเบอร์ดีน”
  • Turkish: “Aberdeen”
  • Ukrainian: “Абердин”
  • Ukrainian: “Абердін”
  • Urdu: “ابرڈین”
  • Uzbek: “Aberdin”
  • Venetian: “Aberdeen”
  • Vietnamese: “Aberdeen”
  • Volapük: “Aberdeen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aberdeen”
  • Welsh: “Aberdeen”
  • Western Frisian: “Aberdeen”
  • Western Panjabi: “ابردین”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿伯丁”
  • Yiddish: “אבערדין”
  • Yiddish: “אַבערדין”
  • Yoruba: “Aberdeen”
  • Yue Chinese: “鴨巴甸”
  • “Aberdeen”

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