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Falkirk

Falkirk is a town in the central belt of Scotland, traditionally in but since 1996 a unitary authority, effectively a metropolis. It's industrial and in 2020 had a population of 35,590.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include The Kelpies and Callendar House.

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are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and . They stand next to the M9 motorway and form the eastern gateway of the , which meets the River Carron here.

Museum
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is a mansion set within the grounds of Callendar Park in Falkirk, central Scotland. During the 19th century, it was redesigned and extended in the style of a French Renaissance château fused with elements of Scottish baronial architecture.

Railway station
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is one of two railway stations serving the town of Falkirk in . It is located on the Edinburgh to Dunblane Line and also the Cumbernauld Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Polmont and Grangemouth.

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is a village five miles east of Falkirk in in central Scotland. It's mainly a commuter village for Edinburgh and Stirling. Grangemouth just north is a busy port and petrochemical town, also described on this page.

Town
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is a town in the Falkirk council area in the central belt of Scotland. Historically part of the county of , the town lies in the Forth Valley, on the banks of the , three miles east of Falkirk, five miles west of and 13 miles south-east of . is situated 2½ miles northeast of Falkirk.

Town
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is a town in the Central Lowlands of . It lies within the Falkirk council area of . The town is two miles north-northwest of Falkirk and directly adjoins to in the west, where the nearest rail access is located. is situated 2 miles northwest of Falkirk.

Falkirk

Latitude
55.9992° or 55° 59′ 57″ north
Longitude
-3.7844° or 3° 47′ 4″ west
Population
35,600
Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB FKK
Open location code
9C7RX6X8+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26517314
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649723
Wiki­data ID
Q623687
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Falkirk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فلكرك”
  • Armenian: “Ֆոլքերք”
  • Asturian: “Falkirk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Folkirk”
  • Basque: “Falkirk”
  • Belarusian: “Фолкерк”
  • Bengali: “ফলকার্ক”
  • Breton: “Falkirk”
  • Bulgarian: “Фолкърк”
  • Catalan: “Falkirk”
  • Cebuano: “Falkirk”
  • Chinese: “法尔科克”
  • Chinese: “法爾科克”
  • Chinese: “福尔柯克”
  • Chinese: “福爾柯克”
  • Danish: “Falkirk”
  • Dutch: “Falkirk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فالكيرك”
  • Esperanto: “Falkirk”
  • Estonian: “Falkirk”
  • Finnish: “Falkirk”
  • French: “Falkerque”
  • French: “Falkirk”
  • German: “Falkirk”
  • Greek: “Φόλκερκ”
  • Gujarati: “ફેલકિર્ક”
  • Hebrew: “פאלקירק”
  • Hungarian: “Falkirk”
  • Icelandic: “Falkirk”
  • Irish: “An Eaglais Bhreac”
  • Irish: “Falkirk”
  • Italian: “Falkirk”
  • Japanese: “ファルクリーク”
  • Japanese: “フォルカーク”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಲ್ಕಿರ್ಕ್”
  • Korean: “폴커크”
  • Lithuanian: “Folkerkas”
  • Lithuanian: “Folkirkas”
  • Macedonian: “Фолкерк”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falkirk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falkirk”
  • Norwegian: “Falkirk”
  • Persian: “فالکرک”
  • Polish: “Falkirk”
  • Portuguese: “Falkirk”
  • Russian: “Фалкирк”
  • Russian: “Фолкерк”
  • Scots: “Falkirk”
  • Scots: “Fawkirk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Eaglais Bhreac”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Falkirk”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Falkirk”
  • Slovenian: “Falkirk”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فالکرک”
  • Spanish: “Falkirk”
  • Swedish: “Falkirk”
  • Tamil: “பால்கிர்க்”
  • Telugu: “ఫాల్కిర్క్”
  • Thai: “ฟอลเคิร์ก”
  • Turkish: “Falkirk”
  • Ukrainian: “Фолкерк”
  • Urdu: “فالکیرک”
  • Uzbek: “Falkirk”
  • Welsh: “An Eaglais Bhreac”
  • Welsh: “Falkirk”
  • Yue Chinese: “福爾柯克”
  • “An Eaglais Bhreac”
  • “Falkirk”
  • “Fawkirk”

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