Elgin

Elgin is the county town of in northeast Scotland, best known for its ruined cathedral which made it a "city". Together with nearby it's the service town for two nearby Royal Air Force bases, with a population in 2022 of 24,600.
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  • Type: Town with 25,000 residents
  • Description: former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Eilginidh”, “Eilginn Mhoireibh”, “Eilginn Muireibh”, “Elgin, Moray”, and “エルギンシティ”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Elgin Cathedral and Borough Briggs.

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, also known as the Lantern of the…

Stadium
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is a football ground in Elgin, , Scotland.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, in .

Elgin

Latitude
57.6488° or 57° 38′ 56″ north
Longitude
-3.3148° or 3° 18′ 53″ west
Population
25,000
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB ELG
Open location code
9C9RJMXP+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26513878
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2650122
Wiki­data ID
Q841074
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Elgin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إلغين”
  • Asturian: “Elgin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Elqin”
  • Basque: “Elgin”
  • Bengali: “এল্গিন শহর”
  • Breton: “Eilginn”
  • Bulgarian: “Елгин”
  • Catalan: “Elgin”
  • Cebuano: “Elgin (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)”
  • Cebuano: “Elgin”
  • Chinese: “埃尔根”
  • Chinese: “埃爾根”
  • Chinese: “埃爾金”
  • Cornish: “Eilginn”
  • Czech: “Elgin”
  • Danish: “Elgin”
  • Dutch: “Elgin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الجين”
  • Esperanto: “Elgin”
  • Finnish: “Elgin”
  • French: “Elgin”
  • Galician: “Elgin”
  • German: “Elgin”
  • Gujarati: “એલ્ગિન”
  • Hebrew: “אלגין”
  • Ido: “Elgin”
  • Irish: “Eilginn”
  • Italian: “Elgin”
  • Japanese: “エルギン”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲ್ಗಿನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Элгин”
  • Korean: “엘긴”
  • Latvian: “Elgina”
  • Lithuanian: “Elgin Sitis”
  • Lithuanian: “Elginas”
  • Manx: “Eilginn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Elgin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elgin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elgin”
  • Norwegian: “Elgin”
  • Persian: “الگین”
  • Polish: “Elgin”
  • Portuguese: “Elgin”
  • Russian: “Элгин”
  • Scots: “Elgin, Moray”
  • Scots: “Elgin”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eilginn”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Elgin, Moray”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Elgin”
  • Silesian: “Elgin (Szkocyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Elgin”
  • Slovak: “Elgin”
  • Slovenian: “Elgin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “القین”
  • Spanish: “Elgin”
  • Swedish: “Elgin”
  • Tamil: “எல்ஜின்”
  • Telugu: “ఎలిగిన్”
  • Turkish: “Elgin, Moray”
  • Turkish: “Elgin”
  • Ukrainian: “Елгін”
  • Urdu: “الگین، مورے”
  • Urdu: “یلجین”
  • Welsh: “Eilginn”
  • Welsh: “Elgin”
  • “Elgin”

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