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Angus is a county in , which historically had as its main conurbation though this is now separately governed. Angus can be considered the birthplace not only of Scotland – the 1320 Declaration of first asserted the nation's sovereignty – but also of its grandparents.
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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.

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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 .

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is the county town of Angus, 13 miles north of Dundee. It had a linen and jute industry in the 18th and 19th centuries but those have gone, so is now a commuter town for Dundee, with a population in 2020 of 14,000.

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is a small port in Angus, Northeast Scotland, midway between Dundee and Aberdeen. It was an important harbour in medieval and Hanseatic times and contributed to Britain's sea and air defence in 20th-century wartime.

Angus

Latitude of center
56.6667° or 56° 40′ north
Longitude of center
-2.9167° or 2° 55′ west
Population
263,000
Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)
Abbreviation
“ANS”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302323606
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
2657306
Wiki­data ID
Q202177
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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”
  • 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: “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.