Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy is a town on the coast of Fife in central Scotland. It's called "The Lang Toun" due to the collection of villages that stretched along the coast.
Photo: Rohancragg, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 59,800 residents
- Description: town and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Cair Chaladaidh”, “Cair Challdainn”, “Kircaldy”, “Kirkaldy”, “Kirkcawddy”, “Lang Toun”, “Керкколді”, “Къркалди”, and “カークカルディ”
Photo: Nab82ba, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Stark’s Park and Kirkcaldy railway station.
Kirkcaldy railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kinghorn and Dysart.
Kinghorn
Town
Kirkcaldy
- Categories: large burgh and locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.111° or 56° 6′ 40″ north
Longitude
-3.1582° or 3° 9′ 30″ west
Population
59,800
Elevation
128 feet (39 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB KKD
Open location code
9C8R4R6R+CP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kirkcaldy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيركالدي”
- Armenian: “Կերկլոդի”
- Armenian: “Քրքոլդի”
- Asturian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Azerbaijani: “Kerkoldi”
- Basque: “Kirkcaldy”
- Belarusian: “Керкалдзі”
- Bengali: “কিরক্ক্যালডি”
- Breton: “Cair Chaladain”
- Bulgarian: “Кърколди”
- Catalan: “Kirkcaldy”
- Cebuano: “Kirkcaldy”
- Chechen: “Керколди”
- Chinese: “柯科迪”
- Cornish: “Cair Chaladain”
- Czech: “Kirkcaldy”
- Danish: “Kirkcaldy”
- Dutch: “Kirkcaldy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيركالدى”
- Esperanto: “Kirkcaldy”
- Estonian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Finnish: “Kirkcaldy”
- French: “Kirkcaldy”
- Georgian: “კერკოლდი”
- German: “Kirkcaldy”
- Greek: “Κιρκάλντυ”
- Gujarati: “કિર્કકેલ્ડી”
- Hebrew: “קרקודי”
- Hungarian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Icelandic: “Kirkcaldy”
- Inari Sami: “Kirkcaldy”
- Irish: “Cair Chaladain”
- Italian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Japanese: “カーコーディ”
- Kalo Finnish Romani: “Kirkcaldy”
- Kannada: “ಕಿರ್ಕ್ಕಾಲ್ಡಿ”
- Korean: “커콜디”
- Latvian: “Kērkoldi”
- Literary Chinese: “噶谷邸”
- Lithuanian: “Kerkoldis”
- Lule Sami: “Kirkcaldy”
- Luxembourgish: “Kirkcaldy”
- Macedonian: “Керколди”
- Malay: “Kirkcaldy”
- Manx: “Cair Chaladain”
- Mazanderani: “کیرکالدی”
- Mongolian: “Кирккалди”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirkcaldy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirkcaldy”
- Norwegian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kirkcaldy”
- Ossetian: “Керколди”
- Persian: “کرکودی”
- Persian: “کیرکالدی”
- Persian: “کیرککالدی”
- Pite Sami: “Kirkcaldy”
- Polish: “Kirkcaldy”
- Portuguese: “Kirkcaldy”
- Romanian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Russian: “Керколди”
- Scots: “Kircaudy”
- Scots: “Kirkcaldy”
- Scots: “Kirkcaudy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cair Chaladain”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Silesian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Skolt Sami: “Kirkcaldy”
- Slovak: “Kirkcaldy”
- Slovenian: “Kirkcaldy”
- South Azerbaijani: “کرکودی”
- Southern Sami: “Kirkcaldy”
- Spanish: “Kirkcaldy”
- Swedish: “Kirkcaldy”
- Tamil: “கிர்க்காலடி”
- Tatar: “Керколди”
- Telugu: “కిర్క్కాల్డి”
- Turkish: “Kirkcaldy”
- Ukrainian: “Керколді”
- Ume Sami: “Kirkcaldy”
- Urdu: “کرکالڈی”
- Welsh: “Cair Chaladain”
- Welsh: “Kirkcaldy”
- Western Frisian: “Kirkcaldy”
- Western Panjabi: “کرکالڈی”
- “Kirkcaldy”
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