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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man is an island in the , sitting in the Irish Sea midway between Cumbria in England and County Down in Northern Ireland. It's not part of the United Kingdom but is a Crown Dependency: its own elected parliament, the Tynwald, governs island affairs, but matters such as defence and foreign affairs are governed by the UK.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Douglas and Castletown.

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is the capital city of the Isle of Man. It has the island's greatest concentration of visitor facilities along its promenade, so it's the main base for tourism. In 2021 had a population of almost 27,000.

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is a fishing port in the south of the Isle of Man. For some 800 years it was the island's capital, but in the 19th century government functions moved away to Douglas.

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is a port and beach resort on the northeast coast of the Isle of Man. It's about the island's closest point to England - Whitehaven is 36 miles northeast, so the port was historically important until Douglas developed.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Peel and Calf of Man.

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is a small fishing port and beach resort on the west coast of the Isle of Man. Its main attraction is the castle, occupying an islet linked by road. In 2021 had a population of about 5700.

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is an island off the southwest tip of the Isle of Man. It measures about one mile by one mile and is a wildlife reserve owned by Manx National Heritage. It has no permanent residents but in summer has a couple of bird wardens.

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is a village on the southwest coast of the Isle of Man. Most tourists just day-trip, and it's a very quiet place in the evening.

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is a small and very touristy village on the Isle of Man - its Great Wheel is an icon of the island. Laksaa in Manx means salmon, like the modern Scandinavian and German words, and the river descending steeply from Snaefell has a run of salmon.

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is a village near the southwest tip of the Isle of Man. It has a small harbour for leisure and fishing craft, but the main reason to visit is to explore the peninsula beyond, which has a scenic hamlet, gaping chasms, megaliths and clifftop views.

Places of Interest

Highlights include West Baldwin Reservoir and Saint Luke’s Church.

Reservoir
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is a on the Isle of Man, about 6 miles north of which it supplies. It was constructed by building a dam across the valley of the River Glass. It is operated by the Isle of Man Water Authority.

Church
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Peak
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, is a peak of 546 metres on the Isle of Man, about 2 km SW of . It is at the southern end of the parish of Kirk Lezayre. It is skirted by the Mountain Course used for the TT races and is near .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keppel Gate and Kate’s Cottage.

Locality
, Isle of Man is part of a former HM Commissioners of Woods and Forest estate, including a series of former highway mountain gates. It is now Common land in public ownership and is one of three purpose built former Crown Road sections of the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road used for the Isle of Man TT races.

Locality
Kate's Cottage, Isle of Man is a cottage and one of the named corners of the Snaefell Mountain Course used in Grand Prix-style motorcycle racing along public roadways of the Isle of Man.

Locality
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is located between the 3rd Milestone and 4th Milestone of the primary A18 Snaefell Mountain Road and the road junction with the secondary B12 ' Back-Road', in the parish of Kirk Onchan in the Isle of Man.

Isle of Man

  • Type: Country with 84,500 residents
  • Description: historic nation and a self-governing British Crown dependency
  • Also known as: “I. M.”, “I. Man”, “I. Mann”, “I. Mannin”, “IM”, “IMN”, “Isle of Mann”, “Man”, “Mann”, “Manx”, “the Isle of Man”, and “英国属地曼岛”
  • Languages: English and Manx
  • Categories: Crown Dependencies and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude
54.2275° or 54° 13′ 39″ north
Longitude
-4.5277° or 4° 31′ 40″ west
Population
84,500
Area
572 km² (221 miles²)
Elevation
356 metres (1,168 feet)
Capital
Douglas
Currency
Pound (GBP)
Phone code
.im
Internet domain
+44-1624
IATA airport code
IOM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1602889766
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3042225
Wiki­data ID
Q9676
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Isle of Man” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo Man”
  • Afrikaans: “Eiland Man”
  • Afrikaans: “Man”
  • Albanian: “Ishulli i Man”
  • Albanian: “Ishulli i Manit”
  • Albanian: “Ishulli i Njeriut”
  • Amharic: “አይል ኦፍ ማን”
  • Angika: “आइल ऑफ मैन”
  • Arabic: “آيل أوف مان”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة مان”
  • Arabic: “جزيره مان”
  • Arabic: “مان (جزيرة)”
  • Aragonese: “Isla de Man”
  • Armenian: “Մեն կղզի”
  • Armenian: “Մեն”
  • Arpitan: “Ila de Man”
  • Assamese: “আইল অফ মেন”
  • Asturian: “Islla de Man”
  • Azerbaijani: “Men adası”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Man”
  • Bashkir: “Мэн Утрауы”
  • Basque: “Man uhartea”
  • Basque: “Man”
  • Bavarian: “Insl vo Man”
  • Bavarian: “Isle of Man”
  • Belarusian: “востраў Мэн”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Мэн”
  • Belarusian: “Выспа Мэн”
  • Belarusian: “Мэн (востраў)”
  • Belarusian: “Мэн”
  • Bengali: “আই.এম”
  • Bengali: “আইল অফ ম্যান”
  • Bengali: “আইল অব ম্যান”
  • Bengali: “মান”
  • Betawi: “Pulo Man”
  • Bhojpuri: “आइल्स ऑफ मैन”
  • Bishnupriya: “আইসল অফ ম্যান”
  • Bosnian: “Ostrvo Man”
  • Breton: “Enez Vanav”
  • Breton: “Manav”
  • Bulgarian: “Ман”
  • Bulgarian: “остров Ман”
  • Burmese: “မန်ကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Man”
  • Catalan: “Man”
  • Cebuano: “Isle of Man”
  • Central Bikol: “Isla nin Man”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەی مان”
  • Chechen: “Мэн гӀайре”
  • Chinese: “Man Tó”
  • Chinese: “曼岛”
  • Chinese: “曼島”
  • Chinese: “萌島”
  • Chinese: “馬恩島”
  • Chinese: “马恩岛 / 曼島”
  • Chinese: “马恩岛”
  • Chuvash: “Мэн утравĕ”
  • Cornish: “Ynys Manow”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Men”
  • Croatian: “Isle Of Man”
  • Croatian: “Otok Man”
  • Czech: “Isle of Man”
  • Czech: “Man”
  • Czech: “Ostrov Man”
  • Danish: “Isle of Man”
  • Dhivehi: “އައިޒަލް އޮފް މޭން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adey Mani”
  • Dutch: “eiland Man”
  • Dutch: “IM”
  • Dutch: “IMN”
  • Dutch: “Isle of Man”
  • Dutch: “Man”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨ་ཡུལ་ ཨོཕ་ མཱན”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة مان”
  • Esperanto: “Manksinsulo”
  • Estonian: “Man”
  • Estonian: “Mani saar”
  • Ewe: “Aisle of Man nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Man”
  • Faroese: “Isle of Man”
  • Faroese: “Mann”
  • Finnish: “Isle of Man”
  • Finnish: “Mansaari”
  • French: “Île de Man”
  • French: “Insula Mona”
  • French: “Man (Île)”
  • Galician: “Illa de Man”
  • Georgian: “კუნძული მენი”
  • Georgian: “მენი”
  • Georgian: “მენის კუნძული”
  • German: “Insel Man”
  • German: “Isle of Man”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Μαν”
  • Greek: “Νήσος του Μαν”
  • Gujarati: “આઇલ ઑફ મેન”
  • Gujarati: “ઇસ્લે ઓફ મેન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Man Tó”
  • Hausa: “Isle na Mutum”
  • Hausa: “Isle of Man”
  • Hebrew: “האי מאן”
  • Hebrew: “האי מן”
  • Hindi: “आइल ऑफ मैन”
  • Hindi: “आइल ऑफ़ मैन”
  • Hindi: “मनुष्य का टापू”
  • Hungarian: “Man sziget”
  • Hungarian: “Man-sziget”
  • Hungarian: “Man”
  • Icelandic: “Mön”
  • Ido: “Insulo Man”
  • Ido: “Man-Insulo”
  • Igbo: “Isle of Man”
  • Indonesian: “Isle of Man”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Man”
  • Interlingua: “Insula de Man”
  • Irish: “Manainn”
  • Irish: “Oileán Mhanann”
  • Italian: “isola di Man”
  • Italian: “Isola di Man”
  • Italian: “Mann”
  • Japanese: “マン島”
  • Javanese: “Pulo Man”
  • Kabyle: “Tigzirt n Man”
  • Kalaallisut: “Isle of Man”
  • Kalmyk: “Мэнин Арл”
  • Kannada: “ಐಲ್ ಆಫ್ ಮ್ಯಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Men atawı”
  • Kashmiri: “آیِل آف مین”
  • Kazakh: “Мән аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Мэн аралы”
  • Khmer: “អែលអុហ្វមែន”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ikirwa cya Man”
  • Kirghiz: “Мэн аралы”
  • Kölsch: “Isle of Man”
  • Korean: “맨 섬”
  • Korean: “맨섬”
  • Kurdish: “Girava Man”
  • Kurdish: “Girava Manê”
  • Lao: “ເອວ ອອບ ແມນ”
  • Latin: “Mannia”
  • Latin: “Monapia”
  • Latvian: “Menas sala”
  • Latvian: “Menas Sala”
  • Ligurian: “Izoa de Man”
  • Limburgan: “Eiland Man”
  • Limburgan: “Man”
  • Lingala: “Esanga ya Man”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isola Man”
  • Literary Chinese: “曼島”
  • Lithuanian: “Meino sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Meno sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Meno Sala”
  • Livvi: “Manninsuari”
  • Lombard: “Isula de Man”
  • Low German: “Isle of Man”
  • Low German: “Man”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Man”
  • Luxembourgish: “Insel Man”
  • Luxembourgish: “Isle of Man”
  • Macedonian: “Ман”
  • Macedonian: “Остров Ман”
  • Malagasy: “Nosin’i Man”
  • Malay: “Isle of Man”
  • Malay: “Pulau Man”
  • Malayalam: “ഐൽ ഒഫ് മാൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ഐൽ ഓഫ് മാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Man”
  • Maltese: “Isle of Man”
  • Manx: “Ellan Vannin”
  • Manx: “Mannin”
  • Maori: “Motu o Man”
  • Marathi: “आईल ऑफ मान”
  • Marathi: “आयल ऑफ मॅन”
  • Mazanderani: “من جزیره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Man Dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Man Tó”
  • Mingrelian: “კოკი მენი”
  • Moksha: “Мэн цёнга”
  • Mongolian: “Мэн Арал”
  • Narom: “Île dé Man”
  • Nepali: “आइल अफ म्यान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Eilun Man”
  • Northern Luri: “میناڤە مأن”
  • Northern Sami: “Mann-sullot”
  • Northern Sami: “Mannin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Man”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isle of Man”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Man”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Man”
  • Norwegian: “Man”
  • Novial: “Isle de Man”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de Man”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Manieg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Manīeg”
  • Oriya: “ଆଇଲ୍‌ ଅଫ୍‌ ମ୍ୟାନ୍‌”
  • Ossetian: “Мэн”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਇਲ ਆਫ ਮੈਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੈਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Persian: “جزیره من”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ من”
  • Piemontese: “Ìsola ëd Man”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ailen o‘ Maan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Maan”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Man”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Man”
  • Pushto: “د آئل آف مین”
  • Pushto: “مان ټاپو”
  • Quechua: “Isla de Man”
  • Quechua: “Man wat’a”
  • Romanian: “Insula Man”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Man”
  • Romansh: “Insla da Man”
  • Russian: “Мэн”
  • Russian: “о-в Мэн”
  • Russian: “Остров Мэн”
  • Rusyn: “Остров Мен”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsula de Man”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Man”
  • Scots: “Isle o Man”
  • Scots: “Isle o Mann”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Mhanainn”
  • Serbian: “Острво Ман”
  • Serbian: “Острво Мен”
  • Serbian: “Острво Човека”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Man”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Man”
  • Shan: “ၵုၼ်မႅၼ်း”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsula di Man”
  • Sindhi: “انسانن جو ٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “අයිල් ඔෆ් මෑන්”
  • Sinhala: “ඉස්ලේ ඔෆ් මෑන්”
  • Sinhala: “මනුෂ්‍ය දූපත”
  • Slovak: “Man”
  • Slovak: “Ostrov Man”
  • Slovenian: “Man”
  • Slovenian: “Otok Man”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradda Isle of Man”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مان آداسی”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Man”
  • Sundanese: “Pulo Man”
  • Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Man”
  • Swedish: “Isle of Man”
  • Swiss German: “Isle of Man”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo ng Man”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираи Мэн”
  • Tamil: “ஐல் ஆஃப் மேன்”
  • Tamil: “ஐஸ்லே ஆப் மண்”
  • Tamil: “மாண் தீவு”
  • Tatar: “Мэн утравы”
  • Telugu: “ఐజిల్ ఆఫ్ మ్యాన్”
  • Telugu: “ఐల్ ఆఫ్ మాన్”
  • Thai: “เกาะแมน”
  • Thai: “ไอล์ออฟแมน”
  • Tigrinya: “አይል ኦፍ ማን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Motu Mani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Isle of Man”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “جزيرة مان”
  • Turkish: “Man Adası”
  • Turkmen: “Man Adasy”
  • Turkmen: “Men adasy”
  • Uighur: “مان ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Мен”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Мен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Man”
  • Urdu: “آئل آف مین”
  • Urdu: “آئل مین”
  • Uzbek: “Men oroli”
  • Venetian: “Ìxoła de Man”
  • Venetian: “Ìzoła de Man”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Man”
  • Vlaams: “Eyland Man”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Man”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Manaw”
  • Western Frisian: “Isle of Man”
  • Western Frisian: “Man”
  • Western Panjabi: “آئل آف مین”
  • Wolof: “Dunu Maan”
  • Wu Chinese: “马恩岛”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùṣù ilẹ̀ Man”
  • Yoruba: “Isle of Man”
  • Yue Chinese: “萌島”
  • Zeeuws: “Eiland Man”
  • Zulu: “i-Isle of Man”
  • “IM”
  • “IMN”
  • “Isle of Man”
  • “आइल्स ऑफ मैन”

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