Douglas
Douglas is the capital city of the Isle of Man. It has the island's greatest concentration of visitor facilities along its promenade, so it's the main base for tourism. In 2021 Douglas had a population of almost 27,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 27,900 residents
- Description: capital city of the Isle of Man
- Also known as: “Doolish”, “Douglas, Isle of Man”, and “Port Douglas”
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Manx Museum and Conister Rock.
Manx Museum
Museum
Photo: FinBjo, Public domain.
The Manx Museum in Douglas, Isle of Man is the national museum of the Isle of Man. It is run by Manx National Heritage. The museum covers 10,000 years the history of the Isle of Man from the Stone Age to the modern era.
Conister Rock
Island
Photo: Gregory J Kingsley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Mary's Isle is a partially submerged reef in Douglas Bay on the Isle of Man. Prior to 1832 the rock was the property of the Quane family until John Quane, Attorney General of the Isle of Man, presented the rock to Sir William Hillary, in his capacity as President of the Isle of Man District of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to build the Tower of Refuge.
Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man
Theater building
The Gaiety Theatre and Opera House is a theatre in Douglas, Isle of Man which together with the Villa Marina forms the VillaGaiety complex. The Gaiety is situated on Harris Promenade, overlooking the sea and adjacent to the Villa Gardens, Arcade and Butts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Onchan and Union Mills.
Onchan
Village
Onchan is a large village in the parish of Onchan on the Isle of Man. It is at the north end of Douglas Bay. Administratively a district, it has the second largest population of settlements on the island, after Douglas, with which it forms a conurbation.
Union Mills
Village
Photo: Gregory J Kingsley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Union Mills is a village in the parish of Braddan on the A1, the primary road which connects Douglas and Peel in the Isle of Man, close to the River Dhoo.
Douglas Head
Locality
Photo: Nigel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Douglas Head is a rocky point on the Isle of Man overlooking Douglas Bay and harbour. Views extend to include Snaefell Mountain and Laxey.
Douglas
- Categories: district of the Isle of Man and locality
- Location: Isle of Man, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.1498° or 54° 8′ 59″ northLongitude
-4.4779° or 4° 28′ 40″ westPopulation
27,900Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 2199688788OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Douglas” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Douglas”
- Albanian: “Douglas”
- Arabic: “دوغلاس، جزيرة مان”
- Arabic: “دوغلاس”
- Aragonese: “Doolish”
- Aragonese: “Douglas (Isla de Man)”
- Armenian: “Դուգլաս”
- Asturian: “Douglas”
- Azerbaijani: “Duqlas”
- Basque: “Douglas”
- Bavarian: “Douglas”
- Belarusian: “Дуглас (востраў Мэн)”
- Belarusian: “Дуглас”
- Belarusian: “Дуліш (востраў Мэн)”
- Belarusian: “Дуліш”
- Bengali: “ডগলাস”
- Bosnian: “Douglas, Ostrvo Man”
- Bosnian: “Douglas”
- Breton: “Doolish”
- Bulgarian: “Дъглас”
- Catalan: “Douglas”
- Cebuano: “Douglas”
- Chinese: “Douglas”
- Chinese: “德格拉斯”
- Chinese: “道格拉斯”
- Cornish: “Doolish”
- Croatian: “Douglas, Otok Man”
- Croatian: “Douglas”
- Czech: “Douglas”
- Danish: “Douglas”
- Dimli (individual language): “Douglas”
- Dutch: “Douglas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دوجلاس”
- Esperanto: “Daglaso”
- Esperanto: “Douglas”
- Estonian: “Doolish”
- Estonian: “Douglas”
- Finnish: “Douglas”
- French: “Douglas”
- Galician: “Doolish”
- Galician: “Douglas, Illa de Man”
- Galician: “Douglas”
- Georgian: “დუგლასი”
- German: “Douglas”
- Greek: “Ντάγκλας”
- Hebrew: “דאגלס”
- Hungarian: “Douglas”
- Icelandic: “Douglas”
- Ido: “Douglas”
- Indonesian: “Douglas, Pulau Man”
- Indonesian: “Douglas”
- Irish: “Doolish”
- Irish: “Dubh Lios”
- Irish: “Dúglas”
- Irish: “Dúlais”
- Italian: “Douglas”
- Japanese: “ダグラス”
- Kazakh: “Дуглас (Мэн аралы)”
- Kazakh: “Дуглас”
- Korean: “더글러스”
- Latin: “Douglas”
- Latvian: “Daglasa”
- Lithuanian: “Daglasas”
- Luxembourgish: “Douglas”
- Macedonian: “Даглас”
- Manx: “Doolish”
- Maori: “Douglas”
- Marathi: “डग्लस”
- Mazanderani: “دوگلاس (من)”
- Mazanderani: “دوگلاس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Douglas”
- Mingrelian: “დუგლასი”
- Northern Frisian: “Douglas (Eilun Man)”
- Northern Frisian: “Douglas”
- Northern Luri: “داگلاس”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Douglas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Douglas på Isle of Man”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Douglas”
- Norwegian: “Douglas”
- Novial: “Douglas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Douglas”
- Ossetian: “Дуглас”
- Panjabi: “ਡਗਲਸ, ਮੈਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
- Panjabi: “ਡਗਲਸ”
- Persian: “دوگلاس”
- Polish: “Douglas”
- Portuguese: “Douglas”
- Romanian: “Douglas, Insula Man”
- Romanian: “Douglas”
- Russian: “Дуглас”
- Sardinian: “Douglas”
- Scots: “Douglas, Isle o Man”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Doolish”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùghlais”
- Serbian: “Даглас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Douglas”
- Slovak: “Douglas”
- Slovenian: “Doolish”
- Slovenian: “Douglas”
- South Azerbaijani: “دوقلاس”
- Spanish: “Douglas”
- Swahili: “Douglas”
- Swedish: “Douglas, Isle of Man”
- Swedish: “Douglas”
- Tamil: “டக்லசு, மாண் தீவு”
- Tamil: “டக்லசு”
- Thai: “ดักลาส”
- Turkish: “Douglas, Man Adası”
- Turkish: “Douglas”
- Turkmen: “Douglas”
- Udmurt: “Дуглас”
- Ukrainian: “Дуглас”
- Urdu: “ڈگلس، آئل آف مین”
- Urdu: “ڈگلس”
- Vietnamese: “Douglas, đảo Man”
- Vietnamese: “Douglas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Douglas, Isle of Man”
- Welsh: “Doolish”
- Welsh: “Douglas”
- Western Frisian: “Douglas”
- Wu Chinese: “道格拉斯 (马恩岛)”
- Wu Chinese: “道格拉斯（马恩岛）”
- Yue Chinese: “德格拉斯 (馬恩島)”
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