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East Kilbride

East Kilbride is a town in the of , some 8 miles southeast of Glasgow, with a population of 75,310 in 2020. It's notorious for its "New Town" architecture, yet its main attraction is the Museum of Rural Life.
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  • Type: Town with 74,400 residents
  • Description: town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “East Kilbridge”

Places of Interest

Highlights include East Kilbride railway station and St Bride’s Church, East Kilbride.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY 4.0.
serves the town of East Kilbride, , Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and it is a terminus on the former Busby Railway. The station is 11+1⁄2 miles southeast of .

Church
Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Bride's Roman Catholic Church is located in East Kilbride in Scotland. It was designed by the architects Gillespie, Kidd and Coia and built between 1959 and 1964.

Sports venue
Photo: BAMC1961, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 20th-century category A listed building in East Kilbride, Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Village and Stewartfield.

Suburb
is the current name of the oldest known settlement of East Kilbride in , Scotland, dating back to well before its designation as a new town in the mid-20th century.

Suburb
is an area of the new town East Kilbride, in . There are no schools in , although there are two primary schools nearby on its south-eastern edge.

Village
is a village situated on the northern green-belt boundary of the new town of East Kilbride in , Scotland.

East Kilbride

Latitude
55.7606° or 55° 45′ 38″ north
Longitude
-4.1777° or 4° 10′ 40″ west
Population
74,400
Elevation
528 feet (161 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB EKB
Open location code
9C7QQR6C+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31918488
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2650405
Wiki­data ID
Q654226
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“East Kilbride” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “East Kilbride”
  • Azerbaijani: “İst Kilbrayd”
  • Azerbaijani: “İst-Kilbrayd”
  • Basque: “East Kilbride”
  • Belarusian: “Іст-Кілбрайд”
  • Bengali: “ইস্ট কিলব্রাইড”
  • Breton: “Cille Bhrìghde an Ear”
  • Bulgarian: “Източен Килбрайд”
  • Bulgarian: “Ийст Килбрайд”
  • Bulgarian: “Ист Килбрайд”
  • Catalan: “East Kilbride”
  • Cebuano: “East Kilbride”
  • Chinese: “东奇尔布莱德”
  • Chinese: “東基爾布萊德”
  • Chinese: “東奇爾布萊德”
  • Czech: “East Kilbride”
  • Danish: “East Kilbride”
  • Dutch: “East Kilbride”
  • Esperanto: “East Kilbride”
  • Finnish: “East Kilbride”
  • French: “East Kilbride”
  • German: “East Kilbride”
  • Gujarati: “પૂર્વ કિલબ્રાઇડ”
  • Hausa: “East Kilbride”
  • Hebrew: “מזרח קילבריד”
  • Hungarian: “East Kilbride”
  • Icelandic: “East Kilbride”
  • Irish: “Cille Bhríde an Ear”
  • Irish: “Cille Bhríde Thear”
  • Irish: “Cille Bhríghde an Ear”
  • Irish: “Cille Bhrìghde an Ear”
  • Italian: “East Kilbride”
  • Japanese: “イースト・キルブライド”
  • Kannada: “ಈಸ್ಟ್ ಕಿಲ್ಬ್ರೈಡ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Ист-Килбрайд”
  • Korean: “이스트 킬브라이드”
  • Korean: “이스트킬브라이드”
  • Lithuanian: “Ist Kilbraidas”
  • Manx: “Cille Bhrìghde an Ear”
  • Manx: “Keeill Vreeshey Hiar”
  • Northern Frisian: “East Kilbride”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “East Kilbride”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “East Kilbride”
  • Norwegian: “East Kilbride”
  • Persian: “ایست کیلبراید”
  • Polish: “East Kilbride”
  • Portuguese: “East Kilbride”
  • Russian: “Ист-Килбрайд”
  • Scots: “Aest Kilbride”
  • Scots: “Cille Bhrìghde an Ear”
  • Scots: “East Kilbride”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cille Bhrìghde an Ear”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “East Kilbride”
  • Serbian: “East Kilbride”
  • Serbian: “Ist Kilbrajd”
  • Serbian: “Ист Килбрајд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “East Kilbride”
  • Slovak: “East Kilbride”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایست کیلبراید”
  • Spanish: “East Kilbride”
  • Swedish: “East Kilbride”
  • Tamil: “கிழக்கு கிளபிரிடே”
  • Tatar: “Ист-Килбрайд”
  • Telugu: “ఈస్ట్ కిల్బ్రిడ్”
  • Turkish: “East Kilbride”
  • Ukrainian: “Іст-Кілбрайд”
  • Urdu: “ایسٹ کیلبریدی”
  • Welsh: “Cille Bhrìghde an Ear”
  • Welsh: “East Kilbride”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسٹ کلبرائیڈ”
  • Yue Chinese: “東基爾布萊德”
  • “Cille Bhrìghde an Ear”
  • “East Kilbride”

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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 Wikivoyage page “East Kilbride”. Photo: BAMC1961, CC BY-SA 4.0.