Scotland
South West
Dumfries & Galloway

Dumfries

Dumfries is the principal town of in southwest Scotland. It's a pleasant market town, with a population of 46,500 in 2020. Robert Burns the poet spent his last years here: from 1788 to 1791 at Ellisland Farm 7 miles north, then in Dumfries town until his death, aged 37.
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  • Type: Town with 39,100 residents
  • Description: town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Dunfries”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palmerston Park and Dumfries Museum.

Stadium
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is a football stadium on Terregles Street in Dumfries, , Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish League One club Queen of the South, who have played there since 1919.

Museum
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and Camera Obscura, located in Dumfries in , is the largest museum in the region. The museum has extensive collections relating to local and history from the pre-historic era.

Railway station
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serves the town of Dumfries in , . It is located on the Glasgow South Western Line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by ScotRail who provide all passenger train services.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Troqueer and Maxwelltown.

Suburb
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is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in on the west side of the . The eastern-side was merged with Dumfries to the east in 1929, and today eastern is a suburb of Dumfries.

Suburb
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was formerly a burgh of barony and police burgh and by the time of the burgh's abolition in 1929 it was the most populous burgh in the county of , Scotland.

Quarter
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is a relatively new suburb in Dumfries. It is situated on the side of the and is approx 1.8 miles north-west from Dumfries town centre.

Dumfries

Latitude
55.0692° or 55° 4′ 9″ north
Longitude
-3.6107° or 3° 36′ 39″ west
Population
39,100
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB DUM
Open location code
9C7R399Q+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11860312402
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2650798
Wiki­data ID
Q652035
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Dumfries” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dumfries”
  • Arabic: “دامفريس”
  • Armenian: “Դամֆրիս”
  • Asturian: “Dumfries”
  • Azerbaijani: “Damfris”
  • Basque: “Dumfries”
  • Belarusian: “Дамфрыз”
  • Belarusian: “Дамфрыс”
  • Breton: “Dùn Phris”
  • Breton: “Dùn Phrìs”
  • Bulgarian: “Дъмфрийс”
  • Bulgarian: “Дъмфрис”
  • Catalan: “Dumfries”
  • Cebuano: “Dumfries (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)”
  • Cebuano: “Dumfries”
  • Chinese: “邓弗里斯”
  • Chinese: “鄧弗里斯”
  • Czech: “Dumfries”
  • Danish: “Dumfries”
  • Dutch: “Dumfries”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دامفريس”
  • Esperanto: “Dumfries”
  • Finnish: “Dumfries”
  • French: “Dumfries”
  • Galician: “Dumfries”
  • Georgian: “დამფრისი”
  • German: “Dumfries”
  • Haitian: “Dumfries”
  • Hebrew: “דמפריס”
  • Hungarian: “Dumfries”
  • Icelandic: “Dumfries”
  • Irish: “Dún Phris”
  • Irish: “Dùn Phris”
  • Italian: “Dumfries”
  • Japanese: “ダムフリアーズ”
  • Japanese: “ダンフリース”
  • Japanese: “ダンフリーズ”
  • Kazakh: “Дамфрис”
  • Korean: “덤프리스”
  • Lithuanian: “Damfrisas”
  • Manx: “Dùn Phris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dumfries”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dumfries”
  • Norwegian: “Dumfries”
  • Persian: “دامفریس”
  • Polish: “Dumfries”
  • Portuguese: “Dumfries”
  • Russian: “Дамфрис”
  • Scots: “Dumfries”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dumfries”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Phris”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Phrìs”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dumfries”
  • Slovak: “Dumfries”
  • Slovenian: “Dumfries”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دامفریس”
  • Spanish: “Dumfries”
  • Swedish: “Dumfries”
  • Turkish: “Dumfries”
  • Ukrainian: “Дамфріс”
  • Urdu: “ڈمفریز”
  • Welsh: “Dumfries”
  • Welsh: “Dùn Phris”
  • Western Frisian: “Dumfries”
  • Yoruba: “Dumfries”
  • “Dumfries”
  • “Dùn Phris”

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