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Edinburgh is the capital of , located in the Central Belt of the country. With a population of 526,470 in the urban area in 2021, and 901,455 in the metropolitans, Edinburgh fizzes with a cosmopolitan yet uniquely Scottish atmosphere.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Old Town and New Town.

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is the original settlement of Edinburgh. At its core is the Royal Mile, the long street descending east from Castle Crag to Holyrood Palace. This medieval city was cramped for space so it built higher and higher, and stank higher still, hence its nickname of "Auld Reekie".

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of Edinburgh is 250 years old, in contrast to the settled for over a thousand years. It was laid out on a grid pattern in the late 18th century with elegant Georgian townhouses, and the intervening loch was drained to become Princes Street Gardens.

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The west of Edinburgh is the area you traverse coming from the airport or Glasgow towards city centre. It's a modern low-rise tract of suburbs, retail and light industry that could be on the edge of any British city, but it has accommodation, the zoo, and Murrayfield rugby stadium.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Edinburgh and Leith.

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The south of Edinburgh includes the Meadows and genteel residential areas such as Bruntsfield, Morningside, Marchmont and Newington. These were built up with villas and baronial tenements in the late 19th century and are the main accommodation belt for the city, for students and for visitors.

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is the historic port of Edinburgh the capital of Scotland, north of city centre on the shore of the Firth of Forth. It's now only a minor port and has lost much of its industry, to be replaced by retail, bistros and cobbled wharves.

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The east of Edinburgh is a collection of neighbourhoods bounded by Holyrood Park, , the coast, and the separate town of . It's a sprawl of residential and industrial districts, and the only two parts of interest to visitors are Portobello beach resort and the hamlet of Duddingston.

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are two districts of Edinburgh immediately north of . The main tourist draw here is the Royal Botanic Garden. There's also an eclectic variety of independent shops and some great places to eat and drink.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and National Museum of Scotland.

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is a historic castle in Edinburgh, . It stands on , which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633.

Museum
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The in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum, with international collections covering science and technology, natural history, and world cultures.

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Arthur's Seat is an ancient extinct volcano that is the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, , which form most of , described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morningside and Newington.

Suburb
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is a district and former village in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies alongside the main arterial Road, part of an ancient route from Edinburgh to the south west of Scotland.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of southern Edinburgh, . Developed from the early 19th century, it is an affluent, predominantly residential area.

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is an area in Edinburgh, the capital of , lying east of the city centre, at the foot of the . The area takes its name from , which was the Church of the Holy Rude. includes the following sites:…

Edinburgh

Latitude
55.9533° or 55° 57′ 12″ north
Longitude
-3.1884° or 3° 11′ 18″ west
Population
488,000
Elevation
217 feet (66 metres)
IATA airport code
EDI
United Nations Location Code
GB EDI
Open location code
9C7RXR36+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17898859
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2650225
Wiki­data ID
Q23436
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Edinburgh” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Afrikaans: “Edinburg”
  • Afrikaans: “Edinburgh”
  • Albanian: “Edinburg”
  • Albanian: “Edinburgh”
  • Albanian: “Edinburgu”
  • Amharic: “ኤዲንቦሮ”
  • Arabic: “أدنبرة”
  • Arabic: “أدنبره”
  • Arabic: “إدنبرة”
  • Arabic: “إدنبره”
  • Arabic: “إيدنبرج”
  • Arabic: “ادنبرة”
  • Arabic: “ادنبره”
  • Aragonese: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Aragonese: “Edimburgo”
  • Aragonese: “Edinburgh”
  • Aragonese: “Edinburgo”
  • Armenian: “Էդինբուրգ”
  • Asturian: “Edimburgo”
  • Asturian: “Edimburgu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Edinburq”
  • Balinese: “Edinburgh”
  • Bashkir: “Эдинбург”
  • Basque: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Basque: “Edinburg”
  • Basque: “Edinburgh”
  • Basque: “Edinburgo”
  • Bavarian: “Edinburg”
  • Bavarian: “Edinburgh”
  • Belarusian: “Эдзінбург”
  • Belarusian: “Эдынбург”
  • Bengali: “আধুনিক এথেন্স”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর এথেন্স”
  • Bengali: “এডিনবরা”
  • Bengali: “এডিনবার্গ, স্কটল্যান্ড”
  • Bengali: “এডিনবার্গ”
  • Bengali: “এডিনবার্গের শহর”
  • Bengali: “এডিনা”
  • Betawi: “Èdinbereh”
  • Bhojpuri: “एडिनबर्ग”
  • Bosnian: “Edinburg”
  • Bosnian: “Edinburgh”
  • Breton: “Dinedin”
  • Bulgarian: “Единбург”
  • Burmese: “အက်ဒင်ဗာရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Dun Eideann”
  • Catalan: “Edimburg”
  • Catalan: “Edinburgh”
  • Cebuano: “Edinburgh (kapital sa apil sa nasod)”
  • Cebuano: “Edinburgh”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێدینبەرە”
  • Chechen: “Эдинбург”
  • Chinese: “Àidīngbǎo”
  • Chinese: “Edinburgh”
  • Chinese: “愛丁堡”
  • Chinese: “爱丁堡”
  • Chinese: “蘇京”
  • Chuvash: “Эдинбург”
  • Cornish: “Karedin”
  • Corsican: “Edimburgu”
  • Corsican: “Edinburgu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Edinburg”
  • Croatian: “Edinburgh”
  • Czech: “Edinburg”
  • Czech: “Edinburgh”
  • Czech: “Edinburk”
  • Danish: “Edinburg”
  • Danish: “Edinburgh”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Edinburgh”
  • Dutch: “City of Edinburgh council”
  • Dutch: “Edinborough”
  • Dutch: “Edinburgh”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эдинбург”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ادنبره”
  • Esperanto: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Esperanto: “Edinburg”
  • Esperanto: “Edinburgh”
  • Esperanto: “Edinburgo”
  • Estonian: “Edinburgh”
  • Extremaduran: “Edimburgu”
  • Faroese: “Edinburgh”
  • Fijian: “Edinburgh”
  • Finnish: “Edinburg”
  • Finnish: “Edinburgh”
  • French: “City of Edinburgh”
  • French: “Dùn Éideann”
  • French: “Edimbourg”
  • French: “Édimbourg”
  • French: “Edinburgh”
  • Friulian: “Edinburc”
  • Galician: “Din Eidyn”
  • Galician: “Edimburgo - Dùn Èideann”
  • Galician: “Edimburgo - Edinburgh - Dùn Éideann”
  • Galician: “Edimburgo”
  • Galician: “Edinburgh”
  • Galician: “Edinburgo”
  • Georgian: “ედინბურგი”
  • German: “City of Edinburgh”
  • German: “Dun Eideann”
  • German: “Dùn Éideann”
  • German: “Edimburgo”
  • German: “Edinborough”
  • German: “Edinburg”
  • German: “Edinburgh”
  • German: “GB-EDH”
  • Greek: “Εδιμβούργο”
  • Guarani: “Endimbugo”
  • Guarani: “Endimbúgo”
  • Gujarati: “એડિનબર્ગ”
  • Haitian: “Edinbo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Edinburgh”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Oi-tên-páu”
  • Hausa: “Edinburgh”
  • Hawaiian: “Ekinipāla”
  • Hebrew: “אדינבורג”
  • Hebrew: “אדינבורו”
  • Hebrew: “אדינברו”
  • Hindi: “ऎडिन्बर”
  • Hindi: “एडनबरा”
  • Hindi: “एडिनबरा”
  • Hindi: “एडिनबर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Edinburgh”
  • Icelandic: “Edinborg”
  • Icelandic: “Edinburgh”
  • Ido: “Edinburgh”
  • Iloko: “Edinburgh”
  • Inari Sami: “Edinburgh”
  • Indonesian: “Edinburgh”
  • Interlingua: “Edimburg”
  • Interlingua: “Edimburgo”
  • Interlingue: “Edinburgh”
  • Irish: “Dún Éideann”
  • Irish: “Dún Èideann”
  • Irish: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Irish: “Edinburgh”
  • Italian: “Edimburgo”
  • Italian: “Edinburgo”
  • Japanese: “エジンバラ”
  • Japanese: “エディンバラ”
  • Japanese: “以丁堡”
  • Javanese: “Edinburgh”
  • Kabyle: “Idinburg”
  • Kannada: “ಈಡನ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್/ಈ/ಎಡಿನ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್‌‌”
  • Kannada: “ಎಡಿನ್ಬರ”
  • Kannada: “ಎಡಿನ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್‌‌”
  • Kannada: “ಎಡಿನ್ಬರ್ಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Edinburg”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Эдинбург”
  • Kashmiri: “ایڈِنبرگ”
  • Kazakh: “Эдинбург”
  • Kirghiz: “Эдинбург”
  • Komering: “Edinburgh”
  • Korean: “에든버러”
  • Korean: “에딘버러”
  • Kurdish: “Edinburgh”
  • Ladino: “Edimburgo”
  • Lao: “ເອແດມບວກ”
  • Latin: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Latin: “Dunedinum”
  • Latin: “Edimburgum”
  • Latin: “Edinburgum”
  • Latvian: “Edinburga”
  • Latvian: “Edinburgh”
  • Ligurian: “Edimburgo”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Edinburgh”
  • Lithuanian: “Edinburgas”
  • Lithuanian: “Edinburgh”
  • Lombard: “Edenbörgh”
  • Lombard: “Edimburgh”
  • Lombard: “Edimbùrgh”
  • Lombard: “Edinburgh”
  • Low German: “Edinburgh”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Edinburgh”
  • Luxembourgish: “Edinburgh”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Edinburgh”
  • Macedonian: “Caeredin”
  • Macedonian: “Dinedin”
  • Macedonian: “Doon Edin”
  • Macedonian: “Dún Éideann”
  • Macedonian: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Macedonian: “Ebora”
  • Macedonian: “Edėnborgs”
  • Macedonian: “Edimborg”
  • Macedonian: “Edimborgh”
  • Macedonian: “Édimbourg”
  • Macedonian: “Edimbùrgh”
  • Macedonian: “Edimburgo - Edinburgh”
  • Macedonian: “Edimburgo”
  • Macedonian: “Edimburgu”
  • Macedonian: “Edimburgum”
  • Macedonian: “Edinbo”
  • Macedonian: “Edinborg”
  • Macedonian: “Edinburc”
  • Macedonian: “Edinburg”
  • Macedonian: “Edinburgas”
  • Macedonian: “Edinburgh”
  • Macedonian: “Edinburgo”
  • Macedonian: “Edinburq”
  • Macedonian: “Edynburg”
  • Macedonian: “Idinburg”
  • Macedonian: “Εδιμβούργο”
  • Macedonian: “Единбург”
  • Macedonian: “Эдинбург”
  • Macedonian: “Эдынбург”
  • Macedonian: “ედინბურგი”
  • Macedonian: “Էդինբուրգ”
  • Macedonian: “אדינבורו”
  • Macedonian: “עדינבורג”
  • Macedonian: “إدنبرة”
  • Macedonian: “ادینبرو”
  • Macedonian: “एडिनबरा”
  • Macedonian: “এডিনবরা”
  • Macedonian: “எடின்பரோ”
  • Macedonian: “ಈಡನ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್/ಈ/ಎಡಿನ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್‌‌”
  • Macedonian: “ಎಡಿನ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್‌‌”
  • Macedonian: “എഡിൻബറോ”
  • Macedonian: “เอดินบะระ”
  • Macedonian: “အက်ဒင်ဗာရာမြို့”
  • Macedonian: “에든버러”
  • Macedonian: “エディンバラ”
  • Macedonian: “愛丁堡”
  • Macedonian: “爱丁堡”
  • Malagasy: “Edinburgh”
  • Malay: “Edinburgh”
  • Malayalam: “Edinburgh”
  • Malayalam: “എഡിൻ‌ബർഗ്”
  • Malayalam: “എഡിൻബർഗ്”
  • Malayalam: “എഡിൻബറോ”
  • Maltese: “Edinburghj”
  • Maltese: “Edinburgu”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯗꯤꯟꯕꯔꯒ”
  • Manx: “Doon Edin”
  • Maori: “Erinipara”
  • Maori: “Ētinipara”
  • Marathi: “एडिनबरा”
  • Marathi: “एडिनबरो”
  • Marathi: “एडिनबर्ग”
  • Marathi: “एडिंबरा”
  • Marathi: “एडिंबरो”
  • Mazanderani: “ادینبورگ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Edinburgh”
  • Mingrelian: “ედინბურგი”
  • Moksha: “Эдинбург”
  • Mongolian: “Эдинбург”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إدينبرا”
  • Newari: “एदिनबरा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Edinburgh”
  • Northern Sami: “Edinburgh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Edinburgh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “City of Edinburgh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dùn Éideann”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Edinburgh”
  • Norwegian: “Edinburgh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dùn Èideann”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dunedin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Edimborg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Edinburg”
  • Ossetian: “Эдинбург”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਡਿਨਬਰਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Edinburgh”
  • Persian: “ادینبرا”
  • Persian: “ادینبرو”
  • Persian: “ادینبورگ”
  • Piemontese: “Edimborgh”
  • Polish: “Edinburgh”
  • Polish: “Edynburg”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Edimburgo”
  • Portuguese: “City of Edinburgh”
  • Portuguese: “Din Eidyn”
  • Portuguese: “Dùn èideann”
  • Portuguese: “Edimburgh”
  • Portuguese: “Edimburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Edinburgh”
  • Portuguese: “Edinburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Eidyn”
  • Pushto: “ایدینبرګ”
  • Quechua: “Edinburgh”
  • Romanian: “Edinburg”
  • Romanian: “Edinburgh”
  • Romansh: “Edinburgh”
  • Russian: “Edinburgh”
  • Russian: “Алата-Кастра”
  • Russian: “Столица Шотландии”
  • Russian: “Эдинбург”
  • Rusyn: “Единбург”
  • Samogitian: “Edėnborgs”
  • Sardinian: “Edimburgu”
  • Sardinian: “Edinburgh”
  • Scots: “Edinburgh”
  • Scots: “Edinburrie”
  • Scots: “Embra”
  • Scots: “Embro”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dun Eideann”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Eideann”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Edinburgh”
  • Serbian: “Едимбург”
  • Serbian: “Единбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Edinburg”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Edinburgh”
  • Shona: “Edinburgh”
  • Sicilian: “Edimburgu”
  • Sicilian: “Edimmurgu”
  • Silesian: “Edinburgh”
  • Sindhi: “ايڊنبرا”
  • Sindhi: “ايڊنبرگ”
  • Sinhala: “එඩින්බරෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Edinburgh”
  • Slovak: “Edinburg”
  • Slovak: “Edinburgh”
  • Slovenian: “Edinburg”
  • Slovenian: “Edinburgh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ادینبورق”
  • Spanish: “Auld Reekie”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “Dun Eideann”
  • Spanish: “Dùn Eideann”
  • Spanish: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Spanish: “Edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “Edinburgh”
  • Spanish: “Edinburgo”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⴷⵉⵏⴱⵓⵔⴳ”
  • Swahili: “Edinburgh”
  • Swedish: “Edinburg”
  • Swedish: “Edinburgh, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Edinburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Edimburgo”
  • Tagalog: “Edinburg”
  • Tagalog: “Edinburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Edinburgo”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Edinburg”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Edinburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Edinburgo”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Edinburg”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Edinburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Edinburgo”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Edinburg”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Edinburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Edinburgo”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Edinburg”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Edinburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Edinburgo”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Edinburg”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Edinburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Edinburgo”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Edinburg”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Edinburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Edinburgo”
  • Tajik: “Эдинбург”
  • Tajik: “Эдинбуру”
  • Talysh: “Edinburg”
  • Talysh: “Edinburq”
  • Tamil: “எடின்பர”
  • Tamil: “எடின்பரோ”
  • Tamil: “எடின்பர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Эдинбург”
  • Telugu: “ఎడిన్బర్గ్”
  • Thai: “นครเอดินบะระ”
  • Thai: “เอดินบะระ”
  • Thai: “เอดินบะระห์”
  • Thai: “เอดินเบรอะ”
  • Thai: “เอดินเบอร์ก”
  • Thai: “เอดินเบอระ”
  • Thai: “เอดินเบิร์ก”
  • Thai: “แอดินบะระห์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Edinburgh”
  • Turkish: “Edinburg”
  • Turkish: “Edinburgh”
  • Turkmen: “Edinburg”
  • Twi: “Edinburgh”
  • Udmurt: “Эдинбург”
  • Uighur: “Idinburg”
  • Uighur: “ئىدىنبۇرگ”
  • Ukrainian: “Единбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Едінбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Едінбурґ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Edinburgh”
  • Urdu: “ایڈنبرا”
  • Urdu: “ایڈنبرگ”
  • Urdu: “ایڈنبرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Edinburg”
  • Venetian: “Ebora”
  • Venetian: “Edimburgo”
  • Venetian: “Edinburgo”
  • Veps: “Edinburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Edinburgh”
  • Volapük: “Edinburgh”
  • Võro: “Edinburgh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Edinburgh”
  • Welsh: “Caeredin”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Caeredin”
  • Welsh: “Edinburgh”
  • Welsh: “Nghaeredin”
  • Western Armenian: “Էտինպուրկ”
  • Western Armenian: “Էտինպրա”
  • Western Frisian: “Edinboarch”
  • Western Frisian: “Edinburgh”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایڈنبرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “爱丁堡”
  • Yiddish: “עדינבורג”
  • Yue Chinese: “Dùn Èideann”
  • Yue Chinese: “Edinburgh”
  • Yue Chinese: “愛丁堡”
  • “Edėnborgs”
  • “Edinbûrg”
  • “Edinburgh”
  • “ma tomo Esin”
  • “एडिनबर्ग”

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