Dumfries
Dumfries is the principal town of Dumfries and Galloway 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.
- Town with about 33,400 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 70 feet (20 metres)
- …is also known as “Dunfries”
- Description: town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palmerston Park and Dumfries Museum.
Palmerston Park
Stadium
Palmerston Park is a football stadium on Terregles…
Dumfries railway station
Railway station
Dumfries railway station serves the town of Dumfries in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Troqueer and Maxwelltown.
Newbridge Drive
Quarter
Newbridge Drive is a relatively new suburb in Dumfries.
Dumfries
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Latitude
55.0692° or 55° 4′ 9″ north
Longitude
-3.6107° or 3° 36′ 39″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB DUM
Open location code
9C7R399Q+MP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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 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”
- Cornish: “Dùn Phris”
- 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”
- Italian: “Dumfries”
- Japanese: “ダムフリアーズ”
- Japanese: “ダンフリーズ”
- Kazakh: “Дамфрис”
- Korean: “덤프리스”
- Latvian: “Damfrīsa”
- Lithuanian: “Damfrisas”
- Manx: “Dùn Phris”
- Northern Frisian: “Dumfries”
- Northern Frisian: “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 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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