Forfar
Forfar is the county town of Angus, 13 miles north of Dundee, with a population in 2022 of 15,700. Its main attractions are Glamis Castle, and the fine Pictish stones here and at Meigle and Aberlemno.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Station Park and Meffan Institute.
Loch of Forfar
Lake
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingsmuir and Dunnichen.
Dunnichen
Village
Douglastown
Village
Forfar
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.6443° or 56° 38′ 40″ north
Longitude
-2.8882° or 2° 53′ 18″ west
Population
13,800
Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB FOF
Open location code
9C8VJ4V6+PP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Forfar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورفار”
- Asturian: “Forfar”
- Azerbaijani: “Forfar”
- Basque: “Forfar”
- Belarusian: “Форфар”
- Bengali: “ফোরফার”
- Breton: “Baile Fharfair”
- Breton: “Farfar”
- Bulgarian: “Форфар”
- Catalan: “Forfar”
- Cebuano: “Forfar”
- Chinese: “佛尔法尔”
- Chinese: “佛爾法爾”
- Chinese: “弗福爾”
- Chinese: “福弗爾”
- Czech: “Forfar”
- Danish: “Forfar”
- Dutch: “Forfar”
- Esperanto: “Forfar”
- French: “Forfar”
- German: “Forfar”
- Greek: “Φόρφαρ”
- Gujarati: “ફોરફાર”
- Hebrew: “פורפאר”
- Ido: “Forfar”
- Irish: “Baile Fharfair”
- Irish: “Farfar”
- Italian: “Forfar”
- Japanese: “フォーファー”
- Kannada: “ಫೋರ್ಫರ್”
- Korean: “포퍼”
- Latvian: “Forfara”
- Lithuanian: “Forfaras”
- Manx: “Farfar”
- Northern Frisian: “Forfar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forfar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forfar”
- Norwegian: “Forfar”
- Persian: “فورفار”
- Polish: “Forfar”
- Portuguese: “Forfar”
- Russian: “Форфар”
- Scots: “Farfar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Fharfair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Farfar”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forfar”
- Slovenian: “Forfar”
- Spanish: “Forfar”
- Swedish: “Forfar”
- Tamil: “போர்பார்”
- Telugu: “ఫోర్పార్”
- Ukrainian: “Форфар”
- Urdu: “فورفار”
- Welsh: “Forfar”
- Yue Chinese: “科發”
- “Forfar - Farfar”
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