Leith
Leith 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.
- Type: Suburb with 50,000 residents
- Description: suburb of Edinburgh and former municipal burgh in Scotland
- Also known as: “Inbhir Lìte”, “Leith (Edinburgh)”, “Лит (Шотландия)”, “リース (エディンバラ)”, “リーチ (ミッドロージアン)”, and “レイス (エジンバラ)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: HMY Britannia and Easter Road.
HMY Britannia
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Town and Newhaven.
Leith
- Categories: town, burgh, and locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.97255° or 55° 58′ 21″ north
Longitude
-3.17095° or 3° 10′ 15″ west
Population
50,000
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB LEI
Open location code
9C7RXRFH+2J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Leith” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليث”
- Armenian: “Լիթ”
- Asturian: “Leith”
- Basque: “Leith”
- Belarusian: “Лейт”
- Catalan: “Leith”
- Chinese: “利斯”
- Czech: “Leith”
- Danish: “Leith”
- Dutch: “Leith”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليث”
- Estonian: “Leith”
- Faroese: “Leith”
- Finnish: “Leith”
- French: “Leith”
- Georgian: “ლეითი”
- German: “Leith”
- Greek: “Λιθ”
- Hebrew: “ליית‘”
- Hebrew: “ליית’”
- Indonesian: “Leith”
- Irish: “Lìte”
- Italian: “Leith”
- Japanese: “リース (スコットランド)”
- Japanese: “リース”
- Kalaallisut: “Leith”
- Kazakh: “Лит”
- Korean: “리스”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leith”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leith”
- Norwegian: “Leith”
- Persian: “لیث”
- Polish: “Leith”
- Portuguese: “Leith”
- Romanian: “Leith”
- Russian: “Лит”
- Scots: “Leith”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lìte”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Leith”
- Slovak: “Leith”
- Slovenian: “Leith”
- Spanish: “Leith”
- Swedish: “Leith”
- Thai: “ลีท”
- Thai: “ลีธ”
- Ukrainian: “Лейт”
- Ukrainian: “Літ”
- Welsh: “Leith”
- “Leith - Lìte”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: The Shore and North Leith.
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