Dorset
Dorset is a ceremonial county on the south coast of England, in the West Country consisting two unitary authorities. Most of the Dorset Unitary Authority is agricultural with scattered historic villages and market towns while the Bournemouth-Christchurch-Poole Unitary Authority consists of the conurbation in the county's south-eastern corner.
Essential Destinations
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Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a seaside resort town in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England.
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Isle of Portland
Portland is a town in Dorset, a county on the south coast of the West Country, in England.
Gillingham
Gillingham is a town and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England.
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Abbotsbury
Abbotsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.
Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle is a village in Dorset and the site of a ruined castle of the same name.
Dorset
- Region with about 777,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county in South West England, UK
- Also known as“Ceremonial County Dorset”“Dorsetshire”
- Neighbors
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location
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Latitude of center
50.8025° or 50° 48′ 9″ north
Longitude of center
-2.3045° or 2° 18′ 16″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dorset” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dorset”
- Arabic: “دورست”
- Aragonese: “Dorset”
- Armenian: “Դորսեթ”
- Armenian: “Դորսետ”
- Asturian: “Dorset”
- Azerbaijani: “Dorset”
- Azerbaijani: “Dorsetşir”
- Balinese: “Dorset”
- Basque: “Dorset”
- Belarusian: “Дорсет”
- Belarusian: “Дорсэт”
- Bengali: “ডরসেট”
- Breton: “Dorset”
- Bulgarian: “Дорсет”
- Catalan: “Dorset”
- Cebuano: “Dorset”
- Central Kurdish: “دۆرسێت”
- Chinese: “多塞特郡”
- Chinese: “多實郡”
- Cornish: “Dorset”
- Czech: “Dorset”
- Danish: “Dorset”
- Dutch: “Dorset”
- Esperanto: “Dorset”
- Estonian: “Dorset”
- Finnish: “Dorset”
- French: “Dorset”
- Galician: “Dorset”
- Georgian: “დორსეტი”
- German: “Dorset”
- Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍄𐍃”
- Greek: “Ντόρσετ”
- Gujarati: “ડોરસેટ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Dorset”
- Hebrew: “דורסט”
- Hindi: “डॉर्सेट”
- Hungarian: “Dorset”
- Icelandic: “Dorset”
- Ido: “Dorset”
- Indonesian: “Dorset”
- Interlingua: “Dorset”
- Irish: “Dorset”
- Italian: “Dorset”
- Japanese: “ドーセット”
- Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ಸೆಟ್”
- Korean: “도싯주”
- Kurdish: “Dorset”
- Ladin: “Dorset”
- Latin: “Dorcestria”
- Latvian: “Dorseta”
- Lithuanian: “Dorsetas”
- Low German: “Dorset”
- Luxembourgish: “Grofschaft Dorset”
- Macedonian: “Дорсет”
- Malay: “Dorset”
- Malayalam: “ഡോർസെറ്റ്”
- Manipuri: “ꯗꯣꯔꯁꯦꯠ”
- Manx: “Dorset”
- Marathi: “डॉर्सेट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dorset”
- Mirandese: “Dorset”
- Northern Frisian: “Dorset”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dorset”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dorset”
- Norwegian: “Dorset”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dorset”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dorsæte”
- Ossetian: “Дорсет”
- Persian: “دورست (انگلستان)”
- Persian: “دورست”
- Polish: “Dorset”
- Portuguese: “Dorset”
- Quechua: “Dorset”
- Romanian: “Dorset”
- Russian: “Дорсет”
- Scots: “Dorset”
- Serbian: “Дорсет”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dorset”
- Sicilian: “Dorset”
- Sindhi: “ڊورسيٽ”
- Slovak: “Dorset”
- Slovenian: “Dorset”
- Spanish: “Dorset”
- Swedish: “Dorset”
- Swedish: “Dorsetshire”
- Tajik: “Дорсет”
- Tamil: “டோர்செட்”
- Tatar: “Дорсет”
- Telugu: “డోర్ సెట్”
- Thai: “ดอร์เซต”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Dorset”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Dorsetshire”
- Turkish: “Dorset”
- Turkish: “Törensel Dorset Kontluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Дорсет”
- Urdu: “ڈورسٹ”
- Venetian: “Dorset”
- Vietnamese: “Dorset”
- Volapük: “Dorset”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dorset”
- Welsh: “Dorset”
- Western Frisian: “Dorset”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈورسٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “多塞特郡”
- Yiddish: “דארסעט”
- Yue Chinese: “多實郡”
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