Clydeside
Clydeside is a region around Glasgow in the Central Belt of Scotland, with a population in 2020 of 1,028,220. It more-or-less corresponds to Greater Glasgow, and half-a-dozen other names, but it's not a metropolis or other unit of local government.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Glasgow and Greenock.
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Clydeside
- Type: urban area
- Description: human settlement in Glasgow City and surrounding areas, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Glasgow and the Clyde Valley”, “Greater Glasgow”, “metropolitan City-Region of Glasgow”, “Metropolitan Glasgow”, “Mòr-Ghlaschu”, “Sgìre Ghlaschu”, “グレーター・グラスゴー”, and “大格拉斯哥都市区”
- Location: Central Belt, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
55.892° or 55° 53′ 31″ north
Longitude of center
-4.405° or 4° 24′ 18″ west
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Clydeside” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Glasgow Handia”
- Chinese: “大格拉斯哥”
- Dutch: “Greater Glasgow”
- Esperanto: “Granda Glasgovo”
- French: “Clydeside”
- Galician: “Gran Glasgow”
- German: “Clydeside”
- Indonesian: “Glasgow Raya”
- Irish: “Mór-Ghlaschú”
- Italian: “Clydeside”
- Japanese: “大グラスゴー”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Glazgas”
- Persian: “گریتر گلاسگو”
- Scots: “Greater Glesga”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Glaschu Mhòr”
- Spanish: “Gran Glasgow”
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