Angus
Angus is a county in North East Scotland, which historically had Dundee as its main conurbation though this is now separately governed. Angus can be considered the birthplace not only of Scotland – the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath first asserted the nation's sovereignty – but also of its grandparents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Dundee and Forfar.
Dundee
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Dundee is an industrial city and port, historically part of Angus county in northeast Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Tay, which here broadens out into the North Sea, and in 2022 had a population of 148,000.
Forfar
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Forfar is the county town of Angus, 13 miles north of Dundee, with a population in 2022 of 15,700. Its main attractions are Glamis Castle, and the fine Pictish stones here and at Meigle and Aberlemno.
Arbroath
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Arbroath is a small fishing port in Angus in north-east Scotland, 16 miles from Dundee, and with a population of 23,500 in 2022. It's best known for its red sandstone abbey, its local fish specialty "Arbroath Smokies", and as the scene in 1320 of Scotland's first documented assertion of independence, the Declaration of Arbroath.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Montrose.
Montrose
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Montrose is a small port in Angus, midway between Dundee and Aberdeen in northeast Scotland. In 2022 its population was 11,200.
Angus
- Type: County with 263,000 residents
- Description: council area of Scotland
- Also known as: “Angus County”, “Angus, Scotland”, “Aonghas”, “Forfar”, and “Forfar County”
- Categories: council area, registration county, lieutenancy area of Scotland, and locality
- Location: North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
56.6667° or 56° 40′ northLongitude of center
-2.9167° or 2° 55′ westPopulation
263,000Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)Abbreviation
“ANS”OpenStreetMap ID
node 302323606OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
2657306Wikidata ID
Q202177
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Angus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أنغس”
- Arabic: “أنغوس”
- Armenian: “Անգուս”
- Azerbaijani: “Angus”
- Basque: “Angus”
- Belarusian: “Ангус”
- Belarusian: “Вобласць Ангус”
- Bengali: “অ্যাঙ্গাস”
- Breton: “Aonghas”
- Bulgarian: “Ангъс”
- Burmese: “အားအန်ဂက်စ်၊ စကော့တလန်”
- Catalan: “Angus”
- Cebuano: “Angus”
- Chechen: “Ангус (регион)”
- Chechen: “Ангус”
- Chinese: “Angus”
- Chinese: “安格斯”
- Czech: “Angus”
- Danish: “Angus”
- Dimli (individual language): “Angus”
- Dutch: “Angus”
- Dutch: “Forfarshire”
- Esperanto: “Angus”
- Estonian: “Angus”
- Fiji Hindi: “Angus”
- Finnish: “Angus”
- French: “Angus”
- Galician: “Angus, Escocia”
- Galician: “Angus”
- Georgian: “ანგუსი”
- German: “Angus”
- German: “GB-ANS”
- Greek: “Άνγκους”
- Gujarati: “એંગસ”
- Hebrew: “אנגוס (סקוטלנד)”
- Icelandic: “Angus”
- Irish: “Aonghas”
- Irish: “Comhairle Aonghais”
- Italian: “Angus”
- Japanese: “アンガス”
- Kannada: “ಆಂಗಸ್”
- Korean: “앵거스 주”
- Korean: “앵거스”
- Kurdish: “Angus”
- Latin: “Angus”
- Latin: “Angusia”
- Lithuanian: “Angusas”
- Macedonian: “Ангус”
- Manx: “Aonghas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Angus (So͘-kat-lân)”
- Northern Frisian: “Angus (Skotlun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Angus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Angus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forfarshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Angus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aonghas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forfarshire”
- Norwegian: “Angus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Angus”
- Persian: “آنگوس”
- Polish: “Angus”
- Portuguese: “Angus”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Angus”
- Portuguese: “Forfarshire”
- Romanian: “Angus”
- Russian: “Ангус (область)”
- Russian: “Ангус”
- Scots: “Angus”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aonghas”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Comhairle Aonghais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “sgìre comhairle Aonghais”
- Serbian: “Википедија:Пренос чланака/Angus”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Angus”
- Slovak: “Angus”
- Slovenian: “Angus”
- Slovenian: “GB-ANS”
- Spanish: “Angus”
- Swedish: “Angus”
- Tamil: “அங்குஸ்”
- Telugu: “అంగూస్”
- Turkish: “Angus”
- Ukrainian: “Ангус”
- Urdu: “انجوس”
- Urdu: “انگس، سکاٹ لینڈ”
- Venetian: “Angus”
- Welsh: “Angus”
- Welsh: “Swydd Forfar”
- Western Panjabi: “اینگس”
- Yue Chinese: “安格斯”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Angus”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.