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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Kilnburn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include East End Park and Dunfermline Abbey.
East End Park
Stadium
Photo: Ian Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East End Park, currently named KDM Group East End Park for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium situated in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland with a seating capacity of 11,480.
Dunfermline Abbey
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunfermline Abbey is a Church of Scotland parish church in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was confiscated and sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair.
Dunfermline Carnegie Library
Library
The Dunfermline Carnegie Library opened in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 29 August 1883 and was the world's first Carnegie Library funded by the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosyth and Crossford.
Rosyth
Rosyth is a port in Fife in central Scotland. It was built from 1909 as housing for the workers at the Royal Navy dockyard so it's modern and industrial, with a population in 2016 of 13,780.
Crossford
Village
Photo: Euchiasmus, Public domain.
Crossford is a small village located in West Fife, Scotland. Its population was 2,358 in 2011. It is 1 mile west of the city Dunfermline, east of Cairneyhill, astride the A994.
Limekilns
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Limekilns is a historic coastal village in Fife, Scotland. It lies on the shore of the Firth of Forth, around 3 miles south of Dunfermline and 13 miles northwest of Edinburgh.
Dunfermline
- Type: City with 53,100 residents
- Description: city and former Royal Burgh in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Categories: large burgh and locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.0714° or 56° 4′ 17″ northLongitude
-3.4616° or 3° 27′ 42″ westPopulation
53,100Elevation
351 feet (107 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DFROpen location code
9C8R3GCQ+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 26405498OpenStreetMap 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: “Դանֆերմլայն”
- Armenian: “Դանֆերմլին”
- Armenian: “Դանֆրմլին”
- Asturian: “Dunfermline”
- Azerbaijani: “Danfermlin”
- Basque: “Dunfermline”
- Belarusian: “Данфермлайн”
- Belarusian: “Данфермлін”
- Belarusian: “Данфэрмлін”
- Bengali: “ডানফামলাইন”
- Bulgarian: “Дънфермлин”
- Bulgarian: “Дънфърмлин”
- Catalan: “Dunfermline”
- Cebuano: “Dunfermline”
- Chinese: “邓弗姆林”
- Chinese: “鄧弗姆林”
- Czech: “Dunfermline”
- Danish: “Dunfermline”
- Dutch: “Dunfermline”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دنفيرملين”
- Esperanto: “Dunfermline”
- Estonian: “Dunfermline”
- Finnish: “Dunfermline”
- French: “Dunfermline”
- German: “Dunfermline Abbey”
- German: “Dunfermline”
- Greek: “Ντανφέρμλιν”
- Gujarati: “ડનફર્મલાઇન”
- Hebrew: “דנפרמליין”
- Hungarian: “Dunfermline”
- Icelandic: “Dunfermline”
- Irish: “Dún Phárlain”
- Irish: “Dùn Phàrlain”
- Italian: “Dunfermline”
- Japanese: “ダンファームリン”
- Kannada: “ಡನ್ಫರ್ಮ್ಲಿನ್”
- Kazakh: “Данфермлин”
- Korean: “던펌린”
- Lithuanian: “Danfermlinas”
- Lithuanian: “Dunfermline”
- Low German: “Dunfermline”
- Macedonian: “Данфермлин”
- Moksha: “Данфэрмлин”
- Northern Frisian: “Dunfermline”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunfermline”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dunfermline”
- Norwegian: “Dunfermline”
- Ossetian: “Данфермлин”
- Persian: “دانفرم لاین”
- Persian: “دانفرملاین”
- Persian: “دانفرملین”
- Polish: “Dunfermline”
- Portuguese: “Dunfermline”
- Romanian: “Dunfermline”
- Russian: “Данфермлайн”
- Russian: “Данфермлин”
- Scots: “Dunfaurlin”
- Scots: “Dunfermline”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Phàrlain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dunfermline”
- 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: “Dunfermline”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈنفرملائن”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈنفرملن”
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