Dunbar

Dunbar is a harbour town in , on the south-east coast of central Scotland. In 2021 its population was 10,400.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Dunbar railway station and John Muir’s Birthplace.

Railway station
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Dunbar, in , Scotland. It is located on the East Coast Main Line and is a two platform station. It is 29 miles 5 chains from and 364.1 miles from .

Museum
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John Muir's Birthplace, in Dunbar, , , is a museum run by East Lothian Council Museums Service as a centre for study and interpretation of the work of the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir.

Hospital
Photo: James Denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a community hospital in Beveridge Row, Dunbar, . The hospital is managed by NHS Lothian.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Barns and Belhaven.

Village
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is a small village in , Scotland. It lies 2 miles west of Dunbar and approximately 28 miles east of . It is close to John Muir Country Park and Belhaven Bay.

Suburb
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is a village in , Scotland, and was originally the ancient port of Dunbar of which town the village has always been a part. takes its name from its situation at the mouth of the Biel Water.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet consisting of a handful of scattered houses which serve the Broxmouth estate in , Scotland. It is named after the stream upon which it stands, the Brox Burn.

Dunbar

Latitude
56.0021° or 56° 0′ 8″ north
Longitude
-2.5158° or 2° 30′ 57″ west
Population
9,030
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB DBR
Open location code
9C8V2F2M+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29541385
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2650776
Wiki­data ID
Q1002133
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Dunbar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دنبار”
  • Asturian: “Dunbar”
  • Basque: “Dunbar”
  • Bengali: “ডানবার”
  • Catalan: “Dunbar”
  • Cebuano: “Dunbar”
  • Chinese: “登巴”
  • Chinese: “苏格兰”
  • Chinese: “蘇格蘭”
  • Chinese: “鄧巴”
  • Czech: “Dunbar”
  • Danish: “Dunbar”
  • Dutch: “Dunbar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دنبار”
  • Esperanto: “Dunbar”
  • French: “Dunbar”
  • Galician: “Dunbar”
  • German: “Dunbar”
  • Greek: “Ντάνμπαρ”
  • Gujarati: “ડંબર”
  • Hebrew: “דנבאר”
  • Indonesian: “Dunbar”
  • Irish: “Dún Bárr”
  • Irish: “Dùn Bàrr”
  • Irish: “Dún Barra”
  • Irish: “Dùn Barra”
  • Italian: “Dunbar”
  • Japanese: “ダンバー”
  • Kannada: “ಡನ್ಬಾರ್”
  • Korean: “던바”
  • Lithuanian: “Dunbaras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunbar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dunbar”
  • Norwegian: “Dunbar”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dynbær”
  • Persian: “دانبار، اسکاتلند”
  • Polish: “Dunbar”
  • Portuguese: “Dunbar”
  • Russian: “Данбар Шотландия”
  • Russian: “Данбар, Шотландия”
  • Russian: “Данбар”
  • Russian: “Шотландия Данбар”
  • Scots: “Dunbar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Bàrr”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Barra”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dunbar”
  • Serbian: “Данбар (Шкотска)”
  • Serbian: “Данбар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dunbar, Škotska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dunbar”
  • Slovak: “Dunbar”
  • Slovenian: “Dunbar”
  • Spanish: “Dunbar”
  • Swedish: “Dunbar”
  • Tamil: “அஃப்ப்லேடோன்”
  • Telugu: “డన్బార్”
  • Ukrainian: “Данбар”
  • Urdu: “ڈنبار”
  • Welsh: “Dùn Bàrr”
  • Welsh: “Dunbar”
  • Yue Chinese: “登巴”
  • “Dunbar”

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