Barra
Barra is an island in the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. The main village is the ferry port, Castlebay. A causeway links Barra to the island of Vatersay, and further south are the uninhabited islands of Pabbay, Sandray, Mingulay and Berneray.
- Type: Locality with 1,080 residents
- Description: island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Isle of Barra” and “islla de Barra”
- Postal code: HS9
Places of Interest
Highlights: Heaval and Isle of Barra distillery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castlebay and Borve.
Borve
Village
Barra
- Category: island
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.9804° or 56° 58′ 49″ north
Longitude
-7.4573° or 7° 27′ 26″ west
Population
1,080
Elevation
545 feet (166 metres)
Open location code
9C8JXGJV+43
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Barra” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Barra”
- Basque: “Barra”
- Bishnupriya: “বার্রা”
- Breton: “Barraigh”
- Catalan: “Illa de Barra”
- Cebuano: “Barra”
- Cebuano: “Isle of Barra (pulo sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Chinese: “巴拉岛”
- Czech: “Barra”
- Danish: “Barra”
- Dutch: “Barra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بارا”
- Esperanto: “Barra”
- Finnish: “Barra”
- Finnish: “Barraigh”
- French: “Barra”
- German: “Barra”
- Greek: “Μπάρα”
- Hebrew: “בארה (אי)”
- Hungarian: “Barra”
- Icelandic: “Barrey”
- Ido: “Insulo Barra”
- Irish: “Barraigh”
- Italian: “Barra”
- Japanese: “バラ島”
- Korean: “바라섬”
- Lithuanian: “Bara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barra”
- Norwegian: “Barra”
- Polish: “Barra”
- Portuguese: “Barra”
- Russian: “Барра”
- Scots: “Barra”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Barraigh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Bharraigh”
- Serbian: “Бара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Barra”
- Spanish: “Barra”
- Swedish: “Barra”
- Vietnamese: “Barra”
- Welsh: “Barraigh”
- “Barra”
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