Islay
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.
- Type: Locality with 3,460 residents
- Description: southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Isle of Islay”, “La reina de las Hebridas”, “La reina de las Hébridas”, “Queen of the Hebrides”, “Regina delle Ebridi”, “Reĝino de la Hebridoj”, “The Queen of the Hebrides”, “Айла (остров)”, “А́йлей”, and “Острво Ајлеј”
- Postal codes: PA42, PA43, PA44, PA45, PA46, PA47, PA48, and PA49
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Islay House and Loch Skerrols.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowmore and Bridgend.
Islay
- Category: island
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.7853° or 55° 47′ 7″ north
Longitude
-6.2389° or 6° 14′ 20″ west
Population
3,460
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB ISY
Open location code
9C7MQQP6+4F
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Islay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Islay”
- Arabic: “إيلاي”
- Basque: “Islay”
- Belarusian: “Айла”
- Belarusian: “Айлей”
- Breton: “Ìle”
- Catalan: “Islay”
- Cebuano: “Islay”
- Central Kurdish: “ئایلا”
- Chinese: “艾拉岛”
- Chinese: “艾拉島”
- Czech: “Islay”
- Danish: “Islay”
- Dutch: “Islay”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايسلاى”
- Esperanto: “Islay”
- Estonian: “Islay”
- Finnish: “Islay”
- French: “Islay”
- Galician: “Islay”
- German: “Islay”
- Greek: “Άιλα”
- Hebrew: “איילה”
- Hungarian: “Islay”
- Ido: “Insulo Islay”
- Indonesian: “Islay”
- Irish: “Ìle”
- Italian: “Islay”
- Japanese: “アイラ島”
- Javanese: “Islay”
- Korean: “아일러”
- Latin: “Ila insula”
- Lithuanian: “Aila”
- Livvi: “Ìle”
- Low German: “Islay”
- Macedonian: “Ајла”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Islay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Islay”
- Norwegian: “Islay”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Islay”
- Persian: “آیله”
- Polish: “Islay”
- Portuguese: “Islay”
- Quechua: “Islay”
- Russian: “Айлей”
- Scots: “Ila”
- Scots: “Islay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ìle”
- Serbian: “Ајлеј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Islay”
- Slovak: “Islay”
- Slovenian: “Islay”
- Spanish: “Islay”
- Sundanese: “Islay”
- Swedish: “Islay”
- Tamil: “இஸ்லே”
- Thai: “ไอเลย์”
- Turkish: “Islay”
- Ukrainian: “Айла”
- Ukrainian: “Айлей”
- Welsh: “Ìle”
- Western Panjabi: “ازلے”
- Wu Chinese: “艾拉岛”
- “Islay - Ìle”
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