Isle of Arran

The Isle of Arran is part of in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west.
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  • Type: Locality with 5,060 residents
  • Description: the largest island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland
  • Also known as: Arran
  • Postal code: KA27

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brodick and Cladach.

Village
is the main village on the Isle of Arran, in the , . It is halfway along the east coast of the island, in Bay below , the tallest mountain on Arran.

Hamlet
Note: is a general Scottish Gaelic word for "beach" or "shore" and occurs in many Scottish placenames is a tiny settlement on the Isle of Arran, .

Locality
was the estate farm for . It now houses a series of tourist enterprises including a cheese shop and Arran Aromatics. This was the site of which was a kind of shanty town.

Isle of Arran

Latitude
55.5815° or 55° 34′ 53″ north
Longitude
-5.2123° or 5° 12′ 44″ west
Population
5,060
Elevation
942 feet (287 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NAR
Open location code
9C7PHQJQ+H3
Geo­Names ID
8299836
Wiki­data ID
Q211873
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Isle of Arran” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جزيرة أران
  • Armenian: Արան
  • Azerbaijani: Arran
  • Basque: Arran uhartea
  • Belarusian: Аран
  • Belarusian: Востраў Аран
  • Bengali: আইল অফ আরান
  • Breton: Arran
  • Breton: Eilean Arainn
  • Breton: Enez Arran
  • Catalan: Illa d’Arran
  • Cebuano: Isle of Arran
  • Chinese: 亞蘭島
  • Chinese: 阿伦岛
  • Chinese: 阿倫島
  • Czech: Arran
  • Czech: Isle of Arran
  • Danish: Arran
  • Danish: Isle of arran
  • Danish: Isle of Arran
  • Danish: The Isle of Arran
  • Dutch: Arran
  • Egyptian Arabic: جزيره اران
  • Estonian: Arran
  • Finnish: Arran
  • French: Arran
  • French: Ile d’Arran
  • French: île d’Arran
  • French: Île d’Arran
  • Galician: Illa de Arran
  • German: Arran
  • German: Insel Arran
  • German: Isle of Arran
  • Greek: Άρραν
  • Hebrew: ארן (אי)
  • Hindi: ऐरैन
  • Hungarian: Arran
  • Icelandic: Arran
  • Indonesian: Pulau Arran
  • Interlingue: Arran
  • Irish: Eilean Arainn
  • Irish: Oileán Arainn
  • Italian: Arran
  • Italian: Isola di Arran
  • Japanese: アラン島
  • Korean: 애런섬
  • Lithuanian: Aranas
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Arran
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Isle of Arran
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Isle of Arran
  • Norwegian: Isle of Arran
  • Persian: جزیره آران
  • Polish: Arran
  • Portuguese: Arran
  • Portuguese: Ilha de Arran
  • Romanian: Insula Arran
  • Romanian: Isle of Arran
  • Russian: Арран
  • Scots: Isle o Arran
  • Scottish Gaelic: Arainn
  • Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Arainn
  • Serbian: Аран
  • Serbo-Croatian: Arran
  • Slovak: Arran
  • Slovenian: Arran
  • Slovenian: Isle of Arran
  • Slovenian: otok Arran
  • Spanish: Arran
  • Spanish: Eilean Arainn
  • Spanish: Isla de Arran
  • Swedish: Arran
  • Swedish: Isle of Arran
  • Turkish: Arran Adası
  • Ukrainian: Арран (острів)
  • Ukrainian: Арран
  • Urdu: جزیرہ ایرن
  • Vietnamese: Đảo Arran
  • Welsh: Arran
  • Welsh: Ynys Arran
  • Yue Chinese: 亞蘭島

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