Elgin
Elgin is the county town of Moray in northeast Scotland, best known for its ruined cathedral which made it a "city". Together with nearby Lossiemouth it's the service town for two nearby Royal Air Force bases, with a population in 2022 of 24,600.
- Town with about 24,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 70 feet (20 metres)
- Description: former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Also known as“Eilginn”“Elgin, Moray”
Places of Interest
Discover Elgin Cathedral and Borough Briggs.
Borough Briggs
Borough Briggs is a football ground in Elgin, Moray, Scotland.
Elgin railway station
Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, Moray in Scotland.
Elgin
This page is based on…
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Latitude
57.6488° or 57° 38′ 56″ north
Longitude
-3.3148° or 3° 18′ 53″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB ELG
Open location code
9C9RJMXP+G3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
Satellite Map
See this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Elgin” goes by many names.
إلغينArabic
ElginAsturian
ElqinAzerbaijani
ElginBasque
এল্গিন শহরBengali
EilginnBreton
ЕлгинBulgarian
ElginCatalan
ElginCebuano
Elgin (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)Cebuano
埃尔根Chinese
埃爾根Chinese
埃爾金Chinese
EilginnCornish
ElginCzech
ElginDanish
ElginDutch
الجينEgyptian Arabic
ElginEsperanto
ElginFinnish
ElginGalician
એલ્ગિનGujarati
אלגיןHebrew
ElginIdo
EilginnIrish
Eilginn MhoireibhIrish
ElginItalian
エルギンJapanese
エルギンシティJapanese
ಎಲ್ಗಿನ್Kannada
ЭлгинKazakh
엘긴Korean
ElginaLatvian
Elgin SitisLithuanian
ElginasLithuanian
EilginnManx
Eilginn MuireibhNorthern Frisian
ElginNorthern Frisian
ElginNorwegian
ElginNorwegian Bokmål
ElginNorwegian Nynorsk
الگینPersian
ElginPolish
ЭлгинRussian
ElginScots
Elgin, MorayScots
EilginidhScottish Gaelic
EilginnScottish Gaelic
Eilginn MhoireibhScottish Gaelic
ElginScottish Gaelic
ElginSerbo-Croatian
Elgin, MoraySerbo-Croatian
ElginSilesian
Elgin (Szkocyjo)Silesian
ElginSlovak
ElginSlovenian
ElginTurkish
Elgin, MorayTurkish
ЕлгінUkrainian
الگین، مورےUrdu
یلجینUrdu
EilginnWelsh
ElginWelsh
Places with the Same Name
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Oldmills and Newmill.
“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”
