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Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the . It is bordered by , , and to the north; to the north-east; the English county of , the , and the to the south, and the to the west.
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is the principal town of 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 town until his death, aged 37.

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is a town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a population of 4190 in 2020. It's on the road and railway between Carlisle and Glasgow, and grew up as a "planned town" from the 18th century.

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is a town in Dumfries and Galloway near the tip of . It's a ferry port, connecting Scotland with Northern Ireland, though nowadays all ferries run from Cairnryan a few miles north.

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, together with Green, is a border town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a population of 3400 in 2022; the name refers to grit or gravel.

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is a coastal town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a poppulation in 2020 of 3350. Farming and fishing are its main trades.

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is a market town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a population of 8700 in 2022. Many town buildings are a warm red sandstone, but the main visitor attraction is the First World War munitions complex that made "the devil's porridge".

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is a town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a population of 4000 in 2022. The big attractions are Threave Gardens and the castle. This page also describes nearby villages such as Dalbeattie, and the coast of the Solway Firth.

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is a town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, along the main road between Carlisle, Dumfries and Stranraer. It's named for William Stewart who built several houses and obtained a burgh charter in 1677 from King Charles II.

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is a village in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland. It's the most southerly village in Scotland, near the tip of the Rhins, the peninsula that ends at the Mull of Galloway.

Dumfries and Galloway

Latitude of center
55.0833° or 55° 5′ north
Longitude of center
-3.8333° or 3° 50′ west
Population
146,000
Elevation
892 feet (272 metres)
Abbreviation
“DGY”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302323565
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
2650797
Wiki­data ID
Q126514
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Dumfries and Galloway” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دومفريز وغالاوي”
  • Armenian: “Դամֆրիս ընդ Գալոուեյ”
  • Asturian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Azerbaijani: “Damfris-end-Qallovey”
  • Basque: “Dumfries eta Galloway”
  • Bavarian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Belarusian: “Дамфрыз-энд-Галаўэй”
  • Belarusian: “Дамфрыс-энд-Галаўэй”
  • Bengali: “ডামফ্রিস ও গ্যালোওয়ে”
  • Breton: “Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh”
  • Bulgarian: “Дъмфрийс анд Голоуей”
  • Bulgarian: “Дъмфрис и Галоуей”
  • Catalan: “Dumfries i Galloway”
  • Cebuano: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Chinese: “Dumfries kap Galloway”
  • Chinese: “丹佛里斯-蓋洛威”
  • Chinese: “邓弗里斯-加洛韦”
  • Chinese: “鄧弗里斯-加洛韋”
  • Czech: “Dumfries a Galloway”
  • Danish: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Dutch: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Esperanto: “Dumfries kaj Galloway”
  • Estonian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Finnish: “Dumfries ja Galloway”
  • French: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • German: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Gujarati: “ડમફ્રીઝ અને ગેલોવે”
  • Hebrew: “דאמפריס וגאלוויי”
  • Hungarian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Icelandic: “Dumfries og Galloway”
  • Indonesian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Irish: “Comhairle Dhùn Phris is Ghall-Ghàidhealaibh”
  • Italian: “Dumfries e Galloway”
  • Japanese: “ダンフリーズ・アンド・ガロウェイ”
  • Kannada: “ಡಮ್ಫ್ರೀಸ್ ಮತ್ತು ಗ್ಯಾಲೋವೆ”
  • Korean: “덤프리스 갤러웨이”
  • Lithuanian: “Damfrisas ir Galovėjus”
  • Manx: “Dùn Phris as y Ghallioo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dumfries kap Galloway”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Norwegian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Persian: “دامفریس و گالووی”
  • Polish: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Portuguese: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Portuguese: “Dumfries e Galloway”
  • Romanian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Russian: “Дамфрис и Галлоуэй”
  • Russian: “Дамфрис-энд-Галловей”
  • Scots: “Dumfries an Gallowa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghàidhealaibh”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dumfries i Galloway”
  • Slovak: “Dumfries a Galloway”
  • Slovenian: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Spanish: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Swedish: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Tagalog: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Tamil: “டுமிபிரிஸ் & கல்லோவாய்”
  • Telugu: “డంఫ్రీస్ మరియు గాల్లోవే”
  • Turkish: “Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Ukrainian: “Дамфріс і Галловей”
  • Ukrainian: “Дамфріс-і-Галловей”
  • Urdu: “دومفرییس اینڈ جالووے”
  • Welsh: “Dumfries a Galloway”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈمفریز اینڈ گالوے”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dumfries and Galloway”. Photo: Phil Sangwell, CC BY 2.0.