Banff
Banff is a small fishing port in Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland. It stands on the west bank of the mouth of the River Deveron, with the village of Macduff on the east bank; in 2020 each had a population of about 4000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,970 residents
- Description: town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Banff, Aberdeenshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Duff House and Macduff Town Hall.
Duff House
Museum
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Duff House is a Georgian estate house in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland, it is part of the National Galleries Scotland and is a Category A listed building.
Macduff Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Macduff Town Hall is a municipal building in Shore Street, Macduff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The structure, which was the meeting place of Macduff Burgh Council, is a Category B listed building.
Duff House Royal Golf Club
Golf course
Duff House Royal Golf Club is a Championship Course and one of the best parkland courses in Aberdeenshire and rated within the top 10 parklands in Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Macduff and Whitehills.
Macduff
Town
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Macduff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Banff across the estuary of the River Deveron.
Whitehills
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitehills is a small fishing village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, that lies three miles west of Banff on the Moray Firth. It is part of the historic county of Banffshire. Whitehills is situated 2½ miles west of Banff.
Banff
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.6645° or 57° 39′ 52″ northLongitude
-2.5218° or 2° 31′ 18″ westPopulation
3,970Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BFFOpen location code
9C9VMF7H+R7OpenStreetMap ID
node 31816622OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Banff” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Banff”
- Basque: “Banff”
- Bengali: “ব্যাানফ”
- Catalan: “Banff”
- Cebuano: “Banff”
- Chinese: “班夫”
- Czech: “Banff a Macduff”
- Czech: “Banff”
- Dutch: “Banff”
- Faroese: “Banff (Skotland)”
- Faroese: “Banff”
- French: “Banff”
- Galician: “Banff, Aberdeenshire”
- Galician: “Banff”
- German: “Banff”
- Gujarati: “બેંફ”
- Hungarian: “Banff”
- Irish: “Banbh, Contae Obar Deathain”
- Irish: “Banbh,”
- Irish: “Banbh”
- Italian: “Banff”
- Japanese: “バンフ”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾನ್ಫ್”
- Korean: “밴프”
- Lithuanian: “Banfas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Banff”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Banff i Skottland”
- Norwegian: “Banff”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Banff”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Banff”
- Polish: “Banff i Macduff”
- Polish: “Banff”
- Portuguese: “Banff”
- Romanian: “Banff”
- Russian: “Банф”
- Scots: “Bamff”
- Scots: “Banff”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Banbh”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Banff, Škotska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Banff”
- Silesian: “Banff (Szkocyjo)”
- Silesian: “Banff”
- Spanish: “Banff”
- Swedish: “Banff, Aberdeenshire”
- Swedish: “Banff”
- Tamil: “பண்ப்ப்”
- Telugu: “బంఫ్ఫ్”
- Urdu: “بانف”
- Welsh: “Banff”
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