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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lewis and Islay.
Lewis
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Lewis and Harris are a single large island in the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. It's the third largest island in the British Archipelago, only Great Britain and Ireland being larger.
Islay
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Islay is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 3,228 in 2011. It's mostly low-lying grazing land and heath, with Port Ellen and Bowmore the main settlements.
St Kilda
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St Kilda is a small archipelago in the Atlantic, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland, of which it's administratively part. Hirta is the main island, and there is no island called St Kilda.
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Inner Hebrides
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The Inner Hebrides are those islands of the Hebrides lying close to the mainland of Western Scotland. If you have a notion to see "the Highlands and Islands", without being more specific, what you're looking for is somewhere in the Inner Hebrides.
Outer Hebrides
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The Outer Hebrides are the most westerly islands of the Hebrides, west of the Scottish Highlands. They're sparsely populated with poor soil and few resources; historically they were in separate local government areas, which hindered their development and culture.
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Hebrides
- Type: Archipelago with 44,800 residents
- Description: archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland
- Also known as: “Western Islands” and “Western Isles”
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
57.7259° or 57° 43′ 33″ northLongitude of center
-7.0727° or 7° 4′ 22″ westPopulation
44,800OpenStreetMap ID
node 8024403439
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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: “Гебрыдзкія астравы”
- Belarusian: “Гебрыдскія астравы”
- Belarusian: “Гебрыды”
- Bengali: “হেব্রাইডস দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bosnian: “Hebridi”
- Breton: “Inizi Gall”
- Bulgarian: “Хебридски острови”
- Catalan: “Hèbrides”
- Catalan: “Hebudes”
- 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)
- Indonesian: “Hebrides”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Hebrides”
- Irish: “Inse Ghall”
- Irish: “Na hInnse Gall”
- Italian: “Ebridi”
- Italian: “isole Ebridi”
- Italian: “Isole Ebridi”
- Japanese: “ウェスタン諸島”
- 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 Hebridas”
- Spanish: “Islas Hébridas”
- Swedish: “Hebriderna”
- Tatar: “Һебрид утраулары”
- Thai: “เฮบริดีส”
- Turkish: “Hebridler”
- Ukrainian: “Гебридські острови”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hebridy”
- Uzbek: “Gebrid orollari”
- 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”
- “Hebrėdā”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hebrides”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.