Hebrides
The Hebrides are the islands off the west coast of Scotland - an inner and outer archipelago are separated by the Minch sea channel. They are rugged and thinly populated, but scenic especially on the inner islands.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Lewis and Islay.
Lewis
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides.
Outer Hebrides
Hebrides
- Type: Archipelago with 44,800 residents
- Description: archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland
- Also known as: “Ebridi”, “Gebrid Orollari”, “Hebudes”, “Islas Hebridas”, “Western Islands”, “Western Isles”, “Гебрыдзкія астравы”, and “ウェスタン諸島”
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
57.7259° or 57° 43′ 33″ north
Longitude of center
-7.0727° or 7° 4′ 22″ west
Population
44,800
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Hebrides” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hebride”
- Arabic: “هبرديس”
- Armenian: “Հեբրիդյան կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Islles Hébrides”
- Azerbaijani: “Hebrid adaları”
- Basque: “Hebrida uharte”
- Basque: “Hebridak”
- Belarusian: “Гебрыдскія астравы”
- Belarusian: “Гебрыды”
- Bengali: “হেব্রাইডস দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bosnian: “Hebridi”
- Breton: “Inizi Gall”
- Bulgarian: “Хебридски острови”
- Catalan: “Hèbrides”
- Cebuano: “Hebrides”
- Chinese: “赫布里底群岛”
- Chuvash: “Гебрид утравĕсем”
- Czech: “Hebridy”
- Danish: “Hebriderne”
- Dutch: “Hebriden”
- Esperanto: “Hebridaj Insuloj”
- Estonian: “Hebriidid”
- Faroese: “Suðuroyar”
- Finnish: “Hebridit”
- French: “Hébrides”
- Galician: “Illas Hébridas”
- Georgian: “ჰებრიდის კუნძულები”
- German: “Hebriden”
- Greek: “Εβρίδες”
- Hebrew: “האיים ההברידיים”
- Hindi: “हेब्रिडीज़”
- Hungarian: “Hebridák”
- Icelandic: “Suðreyjar” (historical)
- Icelandic: “Suðureyjar” (historical)
- Ido: “Hebridi”
- Indonesian: “Hebrides”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Hebrides”
- Irish: “Inse Ghall”
- Irish: “Na hInnse Gall”
- Italian: “isole Ebridi”
- Italian: “Isole Ebridi”
- Japanese: “ヘブリディーズ諸島”
- Kazakh: “Гебрид аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Гебрид аралдары”
- Korean: “헤브리디스 제도”
- Latvian: “Hebridu salas”
- Lithuanian: “Hebridai”
- Luxembourgish: “Hebriden”
- Macedonian: “Хебриди”
- Malay: “Hebrides”
- Manx: “Inshyn Goal”
- Northern Frisian: “Hebriiden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hebridene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hebridane”
- Norwegian: “Hebridene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ebridas”
- Panjabi: “ਹੈਬਰੀਡੀਜ਼”
- Persian: “جزایر هیبرید”
- Persian: “هبریدها”
- Polish: “Hebrydy”
- Portuguese: “Hébridas”
- Romanian: “insulele Hebride”
- Russian: “Гебридские острова”
- Samogitian: “Hebrėdā”
- Scots: “Hebrides”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Innse Gall”
- Serbian: “Хебриди”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hebridi”
- Slovak: “Hebridy”
- Slovenian: “Hebridi”
- Spanish: “Hébridas”
- Spanish: “Islas Hébridas”
- Swahili: “Hebrides”
- Swedish: “Hebriderna”
- Tatar: “Һебрид утраулары”
- Thai: “เฮบริดีส”
- Turkish: “Hebridler”
- Ukrainian: “Гебридські острови”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hebridy”
- Uzbek: “Gebrid orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Hebrides”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kapurupod-an Hébridas”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Heledd”
- Western Frisian: “Hebriden”
- Western Panjabi: “ہیبرڈز”
- Wu Chinese: “赫布里底群岛”
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