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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  • Type: Town with 35,600 residents
  • Description: town in Falkirk, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Egglesbreth”, “Falkerque”, “Folkirkas”, “ファルクリーク”, “法尔科克”, and “法爾科克”

Places of Interest

Highlights: The Kelpies and Callendar House.

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are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads…

Museum
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is a mansion set within the grounds of Callendar Park in Falkirk, central Scotland.

Railway station
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is one of two railway stations serving the town of Falkirk in .

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.

Town
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is a town in the Falkirk council area in the central belt of Scotland. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Falkirk.

Town
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is a town in the Central Lowlands of . 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)
UN/LOCODE
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: “An Eaglais Bhreac”
  • Breton: “Falkirk”
  • Bulgarian: “Фолкърк”
  • Catalan: “Falkirk”
  • Cebuano: “Falkirk”
  • Chinese: “福尔柯克”
  • Chinese: “福爾柯克”
  • Czech: “Falkirk”
  • Danish: “Falkirk”
  • Dutch: “Falkirk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فالكيرك”
  • Esperanto: “Falkirk”
  • Estonian: “Falkirk”
  • Finnish: “Falkirk”
  • French: “Falkirk”
  • German: “Falkirk”
  • Greek: “Φόλκιρκ”
  • Gujarati: “ફેલકિર્ક”
  • Hebrew: “פאלקירק”
  • Hungarian: “Falkirk”
  • Icelandic: “Falkirk”
  • Ido: “Falkirk”
  • Interlingue: “Falkirk”
  • Irish: “An Eaglais Bhreac”
  • Italian: “Falkirk”
  • Japanese: “フォルカーク”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಲ್ಕಿರ್ಕ್”
  • Korean: “폴커크”
  • Latvian: “Folkirka”
  • Lithuanian: “Folkerkas”
  • Macedonian: “Фолкерк”
  • Manx: “Yn Agglish Vreck”
  • Northern Frisian: “Falkirk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falkirk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falkirk”
  • Norwegian: “Falkirk”
  • Persian: “فالکرک”
  • Polish: “Falkirk”
  • Portuguese: “Falkirk”
  • Russian: “Фалкирк”
  • Russian: “Фолкерк”
  • Scots: “Fawkirk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Eaglais Bhreac”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Falkirk”
  • Slovak: “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: “Falkirk”
  • Welsh: “Yr Eglwys Frith”
  • Yue Chinese: “福爾柯克”
  • “Falkirk”

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