Kirkwall
Kirkwall is the chief town of the Orkney Islands, which lie off the north tip of mainland Scotland. With a population of about 10,000 in 2020, Kirkwall has accommodation and other amenities and is the obvious base for exploring these islands.
- Town with 7,390 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 10 feet (3 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code KOI
- Description: town in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Magnus Cathedral and Earl’s Palace.
St Magnus Cathedral
Church
St Magnus Cathedral is a Church of Scotland parish…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Ola and HMS Royal Oak.
HMS Royal Oak
Locality
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HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class… HMS Royal Oak is situated 3½ miles south of Kirkwall.
Head of Holland
Locality
Head of Holland is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles east of Kirkwall.
Kirkwall
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Latitude
58.9817° or 58° 58′ 54″ north
Longitude
-2.9603° or 2° 57′ 37″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB KWL
Open location code
9CCVX2JQ+MV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Kirkwall” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kirkwall”
- Arabic: “كيركوول”
- Armenian: “Քերքուոլ”
- Asturian: “Kirkwall”
- Azerbaijani: “Kirkvol”
- Basque: “Kirkwall”
- Bengali: “কিরকওয়াল”
- Breton: “Baile na h-Eaglaise”
- Catalan: “Kirkwall”
- Cebuano: “Kirkwall”
- Chinese: “柯克沃尔”
- Chinese: “柯克沃爾”
- Czech: “Kirkwall”
- Danish: “Kirkwall”
- Dutch: “Kirkwall”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيركوول”
- Esperanto: “Kirkwall”
- Faroese: “Kirkwall”
- Finnish: “Kirkwall”
- French: “Kirkwall”
- Galician: “Kirkwall”
- German: “Kirkwall”
- Greek: “Κέρκγουολ”
- Greek: “Κέρκουολ”
- Gujarati: “કિર્કવૉલ”
- Hebrew: “קירקוול”
- Hungarian: “Kirkwall”
- Icelandic: “Kirkjuvogur”
- Icelandic: “Kirkwall”
- Indonesian: “Kirkwall”
- Irish: “Bágh na h-Eaglaise”
- Irish: “Bàgh na h-Eaglaise”
- Irish: “Bágh na hEaglaise”
- Italian: “Kirkwall”
- Japanese: “カークウォール”
- Kannada: “ಕಿರ್ಕ್ವಾಲ್”
- Korean: “커크월”
- Latvian: “Kērkvola”
- Lithuanian: “Kerkvolas”
- Lithuanian: “Kirkvelas”
- Macedonian: “Керк Вол”
- Malayalam: “കിർക്ക്വാൾ”
- Northern Frisian: “Kirkwaa”
- Northern Frisian: “Kirkwall”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirkwall”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirkwall”
- Norwegian: “Kirkwall”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ciricewæl”
- Ossetian: “Керкуолл”
- Persian: “کرکوال”
- Polish: “Kirkwall”
- Portuguese: “Kirkwall”
- Romanian: “Kirkwall”
- Russian: “Керкуолл”
- Russian: “Киркуолл”
- Scots: “Kirkwaa”
- Scots: “Kirkwall”
- Scots: “Kirkwaw”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bàgh na h-Eaglaise”
- Serbian: “Кирквол”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kirkwall”
- Slovak: “Kirkwall”
- Slovenian: “Kirkwall”
- South Azerbaijani: “کرکوال”
- Spanish: “Kirkwall”
- Swedish: “Kirkwall”
- Tamil: “கிரகவால்”
- Telugu: “కిర్క్వాల్”
- Turkish: “Kirkwall”
- Ukrainian: “Керкволл”
- Ukrainian: “Керкуолл”
- Urdu: “کیرکوال”
- Welsh: “Kirkwall”
- Western Frisian: “Kirkwall”
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