Dunvegan
Dunvegan is a small village on Skye in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, with a population of 386 in 2011. The main draw is the castle. Dunvegan is also a base for exploring Duirnish, the peninsula to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 386 residents
- Description: village on the Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Dùn Bheagain”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dunvegan Castle and Dunvegan Parish Church.
Dunvegan Castle
Photo: Klaus with K, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dunvegan Castle is located 1 mile to the north of Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. It is the seat of the MacLeod of MacLeod, chief of the Clan MacLeod.
Dunvegan Parish Church
Church
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunvegan is a village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It is famous for Dunvegan Castle, seat of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod. Dunvegan is within the parish of Duirinish. In 2011, it had a population of 386.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lonmore and Skinidin.
Heribost
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Heribost is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ miles southeast of Dunvegan.
Dunvegan
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.4367° or 57° 26′ 12″ northLongitude
-6.5814° or 6° 34′ 53″ westPopulation
386Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DVNOpen location code
9C9MCCP9+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 267259178OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Dunvegan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dunvegan”
- Bulgarian: “Дънвеган”
- Catalan: “Dunvegan”
- Cebuano: “Dunvegan”
- Chinese: “顿维甘”
- Dutch: “Dunvegan”
- Finnish: “Dùn Bheagain”
- French: “Dunvegan”
- Galician: “Dunvegan”
- German: “Dunvegan”
- Irish: “Dùn Bheagain”
- Irish: “Dùn Bheagan”
- Italian: “Dunvegan”
- Japanese: “ダンヴェガン”
- Japanese: “ダンベガン”
- Persian: “دانوگان”
- Polish: “Dunvegan”
- Scots: “Dunvegan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Bheagain”
- Swedish: “Dunvegan”
- “Dùn Bheagain”
- “Dunvegan”
- “Dunvegan - Dùn Bheagain”
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