Dunfermline
Dunfermline is a city in Fife, 3 miles north of the Firth of Forth in central Scotland. The city was a royal residence, ecclesiastical centre and effective capital of Scotland from the 11th century, and many monarchs are buried at its abbey.
- Type: City with 53,100 residents
- Description: city and former Royal Burgh in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Dunfermline Abbey”, “Данфермлайн”, “Дънфермлин”, “Դանֆերմլայն”, and “دانفرم لاین”
Places of Interest
Highlights: East End Park and Dunfermline Abbey.
Dunfermline Abbey
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosyth and Crossford.
Crossford
Village
Photo: Euchiasmus, Public domain.
Dunfermline
- Categories: large burgh and locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.0714° or 56° 4′ 17″ north
Longitude
-3.4616° or 3° 27′ 42″ west
Population
53,100
Elevation
351 feet (107 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB DFR
Open location code
9C8R3GCQ+G9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Dunfermline” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دمفرلين”
- Arabic: “دنفيرملين”
- Armenian: “Դանֆերմլին”
- Armenian: “Դանֆրմլին”
- Asturian: “Dunfermline”
- Azerbaijani: “Danfermlin”
- Basque: “Dunfermline”
- Belarusian: “Данфермлін”
- Belarusian: “Данфэрмлін”
- Bengali: “ডানফামলাইন”
- Breton: “Dùn Phàrlain”
- Bulgarian: “Дънфърмлин”
- Catalan: “Dunfermline”
- Cebuano: “Dunfermline”
- Chinese: “邓弗姆林”
- Chinese: “鄧弗姆林”
- Cornish: “Dùn Phàrlain”
- Czech: “Dunfermline”
- Danish: “Dunfermline”
- Dutch: “Dunfermline”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دنفيرملين”
- Esperanto: “Dunfermline”
- Estonian: “Dunfermline”
- Finnish: “Dunfermline”
- French: “Dunfermline”
- Galician: “Dunfermline”
- German: “Dunfermline”
- Greek: “Ντανφέρμλιν”
- Gujarati: “ડનફર્મલાઇન”
- Hebrew: “דנפרמליין”
- Hindi: “डनफर्मलाइन”
- Hungarian: “Dunfermline”
- Icelandic: “Dunfermline”
- Ido: “Dunfermline”
- Irish: “Dún Phárlain”
- Irish: “Dùn Phàrlain”
- Italian: “Dunfermline”
- Japanese: “ダンファームリン”
- Kannada: “ಡನ್ಫರ್ಮ್ಲಿನ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Данфермлин”
- Kazakh: “Данфермлин”
- Korean: “던펌린”
- Latvian: “Danfērmlina”
- Lithuanian: “Danfermlinas”
- Low German: “Dunfermline”
- Macedonian: “Данфермлин”
- Manx: “Dùn Phàrlain”
- Moksha: “Данфэрмлин”
- Mongolian: “Данфермлин”
- Northern Frisian: “Dunfermline”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunfermline”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dunfermline”
- Norwegian: “Dunfermline”
- Ossetian: “Данфермлин”
- Persian: “دانفرملاین”
- Persian: “دانفرملین”
- Polish: “Dunfermline”
- Portuguese: “Dunfermline”
- Romanian: “Dunfermline”
- Russian: “Данфермлин”
- Scots: “Dunfaurlin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Phàrlain”
- Serbian: “Danfermlin”
- Serbian: “Данфермлин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dunfermline”
- Silesian: “Dunfermline”
- Slovak: “Dunfermline”
- Slovenian: “Dunfermline”
- South Azerbaijani: “دانفرملاین”
- Spanish: “Dunfermline”
- Swedish: “Dunfermline”
- Tamil: “டன்பெற் மலின்”
- Tatar: “Данфермлин”
- Telugu: “డున్ఫెర్మ్లైన్”
- Thai: “ดันเฟิร์มลิน”
- Ukrainian: “Данфермлін”
- Urdu: “ڈنفئرلین”
- Welsh: “Dùn Phàrlain”
- Welsh: “Dunfermline”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈنفرملائن”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈنفرملن”
- “Dunfermline”
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Places to explore: Heritage Quarter and Abbey Parks.
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