Inverness
Inverness is a city in The Great Glen and Strathspey area of the Scottish Highlands, at the point where the River Ness flows out into the Moray Firth. Inverness is the only city of any size in the Highlands, and is the region's commercial and administrative centre.
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- Type: City with 47,100 residents
- Description: city in the Highlands of Scotland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Inbhir-Nis”, “Inbhirnis”, “إنرنيس”, “இன்வெர்நெஸ்”, “イニリ・ニシ”, “インヴァーネス”, “インバーネス”, “インバネス”, and “恩華勒斯”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Inverness railway station and Inverness Castle.
Inverness railway station
Railway station
Inverness Castle
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Millburn and Scorguie.
Millburn
Suburb
Scorguie
Suburb
Scorguie is an area of the city of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland.
Inverness
- Categories: large burgh and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.479° or 57° 28′ 44″ north
Longitude
-4.2257° or 4° 13′ 33″ west
Population
47,100
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
IATA airport code
INV
UN/LOCODE
GB INV
Open location code
9C9QFQHF+JP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Inverness” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Inverness”
- Arabic: “إنفرنيس”
- Armenian: “Ինվերնես”
- Asturian: “Inverness”
- Azerbaijani: “İnverness”
- Basque: “Inverness”
- Belarusian: “Інвернес”
- Belarusian: “Інвернесс”
- Bengali: “ইভারনেস”
- Breton: “Inbhir Nis”
- Bulgarian: “Инвърнес”
- Catalan: “Inverness”
- Cebuano: “Inverness (kapital sa dapit sa konseho sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Inverness”
- Chinese: “印威內斯”
- Chinese: “因弗內斯”
- Chinese: “因弗内斯”
- Chinese: “延文禮士”
- Cornish: “Inbhir Nis”
- Croatian: “Inverness”
- Czech: “Inverness”
- Danish: “Inverness”
- Dimli (individual language): “Inverness”
- Dutch: “Inverness”
- Egyptian Arabic: “انفرنيس”
- Esperanto: “Inverneso”
- Esperanto: “Inverness”
- Estonian: “Inverness”
- Finnish: “Inverness”
- French: “Inverness”
- Galician: “Inverness”
- German: “Inverness”
- Greek: “Ινβερνές”
- Gujarati: “ઈંવેરનેસ”
- Hebrew: “אינוורנס”
- Hindi: “इनवर्नेस”
- Hungarian: “Inverness”
- Icelandic: “Inverness”
- Ido: “Inverness”
- Indonesian: “Inverness”
- Interlingue: “Inverness”
- Irish: “Inbhear Nis”
- Irish: “Inbhir Nis”
- Italian: “Inverness”
- Japanese: “インヴァネス”
- Kannada: “ಇನ್ವರ್ನೆಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Инвернесс”
- Korean: “인버네스”
- Kurdish: “Inverness”
- Latvian: “Invernesa”
- Lithuanian: “Invernesas”
- Lombard: “Inverness”
- Malay: “Inverness”
- Manipuri: “ꯏꯟꯚꯔꯅꯦꯁ”
- Manx: “Inbhir Nis”
- Marathi: “इन्वरनेस”
- Mongolian: “Инвернесс”
- Northern Frisian: “Inverness”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Inverness”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Inverness”
- Norwegian: “Inverness”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Inverness”
- Ossetian: “Инвернесс”
- Persian: “اینورنس”
- Piemontese: “Inverness”
- Polish: “Inverness”
- Portuguese: “Inverness”
- Quechua: “Inverness”
- Romanian: “Inverness”
- Russian: “Инвернесс”
- Scots: “Innerness”
- Scots: “Inverness”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Nis”
- Serbian: “Инвернес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Inverness, Škotska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Inverness”
- Sicilian: “Inverness”
- Silesian: “Inverness”
- Sinhala: “ඉන්වර්නස්”
- Slovak: “Inverness”
- Slovenian: “Inverness”
- South Azerbaijani: “اینورنس”
- Spanish: “Inverness”
- Swedish: “Inverness”
- Tagalog: “Inverness”
- Tamil: “இன்வெர்னெஸ்”
- Tatar: “Инвернесс”
- Telugu: “ఇన్వర్నెస్”
- Thai: “อินเวอร์เนสส์”
- Turkish: “Inverness”
- Ukrainian: “Інвернесс”
- Urdu: “اینورنس”
- Venetian: “Inverness”
- Vietnamese: “Inverness”
- Volapük: “Inverness”
- Volapük: “Iverness”
- Waray (Philippines): “Inverness”
- Welsh: “Inbhir Nis”
- Welsh: “Inverness”
- Western Frisian: “Inverness”
- Western Panjabi: “انورنس”
- Wu Chinese: “因弗尼斯”
- Yiddish: “אינווערנעס”
- Yue Chinese: “延文禮士”
- Zeeuws: “Inverness”
- “Inverness”
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