Northern Ireland
County Antrim
Causeway Coast & Glens

Giant’s Causeway

The Giant's Causeway is a spectacular series of rock formations on the of . The main site stretches for 2-3 miles, with some 40,000 basalt columns rising out of the sea.
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  • Type: Rock
  • Description: rock formation on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland
  • Also known as: “Giants Causeway”, “Giants‘ Causeway”, “Gyants Causey”, and “Gyants Cawsway”
Photo: Lindy Buckley, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bushmills and Portballintrae.

Photo: Ryan kirk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village historically in , near the coast 60 miles north of Belfast. These counties have been abolished so it's now part of Causeway Coast and Glens District, and in 2011 had a population of 1295.

Village
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small seaside in , . It is four miles east of and two miles west of the Giant's Causeway. is situated 2 miles southwest of Giant’s Causeway.

Giant’s Causeway

Latitude
55.2408° or 55° 14′ 27″ north
Longitude
-6.5115° or 6° 30′ 42″ west
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Operator
National Trust
Open location code
9C7M6FRQ+89
Open­Street­Map ID
way 177043247
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bare_rock
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
7521399
Wiki­data ID
Q106187
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Giant’s Causeway” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Arabic: “ممر العمالقة”
  • Armenian: “Հսկաների ճանապարհ”
  • Armenian: “Հսկաների սալարկուղի”
  • Asturian: “Calzada del Xigante”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kozuay sahili”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nəhənglər keçidi”
  • Bashkir: “Гиганттар юлы”
  • Basque: “Erraldoien Galtzada”
  • Basque: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Basque: “The Giant’s Causeway”
  • Belarusian: “Дарога гігантаў”
  • Belarusian: “Сьцяжына гігантаў”
  • Bengali: “জায়ান্ট কজওয়ে”
  • Breton: “Chaoser ar Ramzed”
  • Bulgarian: “Пътят на великаните”
  • Burmese: “ဂျိုင်းယင့်၏ ရေကျော်လမ်း”
  • Catalan: “Calçada del Gegant”
  • Catalan: “Calçada dels Gegants”
  • Cebuano: “Giants Causeway”
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: “ⴰⵙⴰⴽⴽⴰ ⴻⵏ ⵢ’ⵇⴰⵎⵇⴰⵎⴻⵏ”
  • Chinese: “巨人之路”
  • Chinese: “巨人堤道”
  • Chinese: “賈恩茨考斯韋海岸”
  • Chinese: “賈恩茨考斯韋角”
  • Chinese: “贾恩茨考斯韦海岸”
  • Croatian: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Croatian: “Prolaz divova”
  • Czech: “Clochán an Aifir”
  • Czech: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Czech: “Obrovy schody”
  • Czech: “Obrův chodník”
  • Danish: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Danish: “Giants Causeway”
  • Dutch: “Causeway Coast”
  • Dutch: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Dutch: “Giants Causeway”
  • Esperanto: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Finnish: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • French: “Chausée des Géants”
  • French: “Chaussée des Géants et sa côte”
  • French: “Chaussee des Geants”
  • French: “Chaussée des Géants”
  • Friulian: “Pedrât dal Zigant”
  • Galician: “Calzada do Xigante”
  • Georgian: “გიგანტების გზა”
  • German: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • German: “Giants Causeway”
  • Hebrew: “מסילת הענק”
  • Hebrew: “סוללת הענק”
  • Hindi: “दैत्य सेतुक”
  • Hungarian: “Az óriás útja”
  • Ido: “Choseo di Giganti”
  • Indonesian: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Irish: “Clochán an Aifir”
  • Irish: “Clochán na bhFómharach”
  • Irish: “Clochán na bhFomhórach”
  • Irish: “Clochán na bhFomórach”
  • Italian: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Italian: “Selciato del gigante”
  • Italian: “Sentiero del gigante”
  • Japanese: “コーズウェー海岸”
  • Japanese: “ジャイアンツ・コーズウェー”
  • Japanese: “ジャイアンツ・コーズウェーとコーズウェー海岸”
  • Korean: “자이언트 코즈웨이”
  • Latvian: “Milža dambis”
  • Lithuanian: “Milžinų grindinys”
  • Lithuanian: “Milžinų kelias”
  • Low German: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Luxembourgish: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Malay: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Maltese: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Maltese: “Mogħdija tal-Ġgant”
  • Narom: “Pont es Giants”
  • Narom: “Pont ès Giants”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Norwegian: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cauçada dei Gigants”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਾਇੰਟ ਕੌਜ਼ਵੇ”
  • Persian: “گذرگاه ساحلی جاینت”
  • Polish: “Droga Olbrzymów”
  • Polish: “Gościniec Giganta”
  • Polish: “Grobla Giganta”
  • Polish: “Grobla Olbrzyma”
  • Polish: “Grobla Olbrzymów”
  • Polish: “Ścieżka gigantów”
  • Portuguese: “A Calçada para Gigantes”
  • Portuguese: “Calçada dos Gigantes e sua Costa”
  • Portuguese: “Calçada dos Gigantes”
  • Portuguese: “Calçada para Gigantes”
  • Romanian: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Russian: “Дорога гигантов”
  • Russian: “Дорога Гигантов”
  • Russian: “Мостовая гиганта”
  • Russian: “Мостовая гигантов”
  • Russian: “Тропа Великана”
  • Serbian: “Пролаз дивова”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prolaz divova”
  • Slovak: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Slovenian: “Clochán an Aifir”
  • Slovenian: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Slovenian: “Velikanova pot”
  • Spanish: “Calzada de los Gigantes”
  • Spanish: “Calzada del Gigante”
  • Spanish: “Calzada y Costa del Gigante”
  • Spanish: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Spanish: “The Giant’s Causeway”
  • Swedish: “Giant’s Causeway och Causeway Coast”
  • Swedish: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Swedish: “Giants Causeway”
  • Tamil: “இராட்சசப் படுகை”
  • Thai: “ไจอันตส์คอสเวย์”
  • Turkish: “Devler Kaldırımı”
  • Ukrainian: “Дорога Гігантів”
  • Venetian: “Giant’s causeway”
  • Venetian: “Sałisada del Zigante”
  • Venetian: “Salizzada del Zigante”
  • Vietnamese: “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Giant’s Causeway”
  • Welsh: “Sarn y Cawr”
  • Western Panjabi: “جائینٹ کازوے”
  • Wu Chinese: “巨人堤道”
  • Yue Chinese: “巨人堤道”

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