Fife
Fife is a county in the north east of Scotland, with a population in 2019 of 371,910. It's a lowland peninsula, with the broad Firth of Forth to the south and the smaller Firth of Tay to the north, and great bridges for its gateways.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Dunfermline and St Andrews.
Dunfermline
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Dunfermline is a city in Fife, 3 miles north of the Firth of Forth in central Scotland. The city was a royal residence, ecclesiastical centre and effective capital of Scotland from the 11th century, and many monarchs are buried at its abbey.
St Andrews
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St Andrews is a town on the coast of Fife in northeast Scotland. With a population of 16,930 in 2021, it's an attractive place famous for its ancient university and as the "home of golf".
Kirkcaldy
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Kirkcaldy is a town on the coast of Fife in central Scotland. It's called "The Lang Toun" due to the collection of villages that stretched along the coast.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Glenrothes and Rosyth.
Glenrothes
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Glenrothes is a large town in Fife, with a population in 2016 of 38,510. It's a post-War "New Town" with uninspiring architecture and not normally a town people visit.
Rosyth
Rosyth is a port in Fife in central Scotland. It was built from 1909 as housing for the workers at the Royal Navy dockyard so it's modern and industrial, with a population in 2016 of 13,780.
Burntisland
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Burntisland is a port on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, in Fife in central Scotland, with a population of 6600 in 2020. Its west side is industrial and formerly had ship-building, but its east is a small seaside resort and commuter town for Edinburgh.
Anstruther
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Anstruther is a fishing village on the East Neuk of Fife on the east coast of Scotland. With a population of almost 4,000, it's the largest of a series of villages along the coast: east through Crail to the tip of Fife, and west through Pittenweem and St Monans to Earlsferry, all covered on this page.
Aberdour
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Aberdour is a small town on the coast of Fife in central Scotland, and nowadays a commuter town for Edinburgh, with a population in 2011 of 1633.
North Queensferry
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North Queensferry is a village in Fife in central Scotland, with a population of just over 1000 in 2022. It's on the north bank of the Firth of Forth, at a narrow point that has been a ferry crossing for many centuries.
Leven
Leven is a town on the coast of Fife in central Scotland, with a population in 2016 of 9040. It was industrial during the 19th and 20th century, merging into the neighbouring towns of Methil and Buckhaven to create the conurbation of Levenmouth; it's struggled to re-invent itself since the coal mines closed.
Culross
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Culross is a very attractive village in Fife on the north bank of the Firth of Forth. In the 16th and 17th centuries its merchants grew rich from coal, salt and limestone, trading especially with the Low Countries, and building themselves fine town houses.
Fife
- Type: Locality with 374,000 residents
- Description: council area of Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Fife Conty”, “Fifeshire”, “Fiobha”, “Fìobha”, “GB-FIF”, and “Kingdom of Fife”
- Categories: Scottish council area, peninsula, Scottish region, registration county, and lieutenancy area of Scotland
- Location: North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Fife” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فايف”
- Armenian: “Ֆայֆ”
- Asturian: “Fife”
- Azerbaijani: “Fayf”
- Basque: “Fife”
- Belarusian: “Файф”
- Bengali: “ফিফে”
- Breton: “Fife”
- Breton: “Fìobh”
- Breton: “Fìobha”
- Bulgarian: “Файф”
- Catalan: “Fife”
- Cebuano: “Fife”
- Cebuano: “Fifeshire (kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Chinese: “Fife”
- Chinese: “快富”
- Chinese: “法夫”
- Czech: “Fife”
- Danish: “Fife”
- Dutch: “Fife”
- Dutch: “Fifeshire”
- Esperanto: “Fife”
- Estonian: “Fife”
- Fiji Hindi: “Fife”
- Finnish: “Fife”
- French: “Fife”
- French: “GB-FIF”
- Galician: “Fife, Escocia”
- Galician: “Fìobha, Fifeshire, Reino de Fife”
- German: “Fife”
- German: “GB-FIF”
- Greek: “Φάιφ”
- Gujarati: “ફાઈફ”
- Hebrew: “פייף”
- Hebrew: “פיף”
- Hungarian: “Fife”
- Icelandic: “Fife”
- Irish: “Fìobha”
- Italian: “Fife”
- Japanese: “ファイフ”
- Japanese: “ファイフシャー”
- Kannada: “ಫೀಫ್”
- Kazakh: “Файф”
- Korean: “파이프 주”
- Korean: “파이프”
- Kurdish: “Fife”
- Latin: “Fifa”
- Latin: “Fife”
- Latin: “Fifensis”
- Lithuanian: “Faifas”
- Macedonian: “Фајф”
- Manx: “Feevey”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fife”
- Northern Frisian: “Fife (Skotlun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Fife”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fife”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fifeshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fife i Skottland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fife”
- Norwegian: “Fife”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fif Scir”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fif Scīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fif”
- Ossetian: “Файф”
- Persian: “فایف”
- Polish: “Fife”
- Portuguese: “Fife”
- Romanian: “Fife”
- Russian: “Файф”
- Scots: “Fife”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fiobh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fìobh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fiobha”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fìobha”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fajf”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fife”
- Slovenian: “Fife”
- Spanish: “Fife”
- Swedish: “Fife”
- Swedish: “Fifeshire (grevskap i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Fifeshire”
- Tamil: “பைவ்”
- Telugu: “ఫైప్”
- Turkish: “Fife”
- Ukrainian: “Файф”
- Ukrainian: “Файфшир”
- Ukrainian: “Фіоба”
- Ukrainian: “Фіобна”
- Urdu: “فائف”
- Venetian: “Fife”
- Welsh: “Deyrnas Fife”
- Welsh: “Fife”
- Welsh: “Fiobha”
- Welsh: “Fìobha”
- Welsh: “GB-FIF”
- Welsh: “Sir Fife”
- Western Panjabi: “فائف”
- Yue Chinese: “快富”
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