Lanark

Lanark is a market town in , 28 miles southeast of Glasgow. Historically it was the county town of Lanarkshire, but that is nowadays Hamilton.
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  • Type: Town with 8,860 residents
  • Description: town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Lanrick”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lanark railway station and Lanark Memorial Hall.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY 4.0.
, managed by ScotRail, is the…

Town hall
Photo: Adam Black, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town hall.

Waterfall
Photo: R Pollack, Public domain.
is a waterfall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Lanark and Kirkfieldbank.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a complex of cotton mills and associated…

Village
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is a small village and parish in , on the banks of the .

Village
is a village in , .

Lanark

Latitude
55.6736° or 55° 40′ 25″ north
Longitude
-3.778° or 3° 46′ 41″ west
Population
8,860
Elevation
653 feet (199 metres)
Open location code
9C7RM6FC+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 322700657
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2644976
Wiki­data ID
Q1002124
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lanark” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لانارك”
  • Asturian: “Lanark”
  • Basque: “Lanark”
  • Catalan: “Lanark”
  • Cebuano: “Lanark”
  • Chinese: “拉奈克”
  • Chinese: “拉纳克”
  • Czech: “Lanark”
  • Dutch: “Lanark”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لانارك”
  • Esperanto: “Lanark”
  • Finnish: “Lanark”
  • French: “Lanark”
  • German: “Lanark”
  • Hebrew: “לאנארק”
  • Irish: “Lannraig”
  • Italian: “Lanark”
  • Japanese: “ラナーク”
  • Korean: “래너크”
  • Latvian: “Lanarka”
  • Persian: “لنارک”
  • Polish: “Lanark”
  • Portuguese: “Lanark”
  • Russian: “Ланарк”
  • Scots: “Lanrik”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lannraig, Lannraig a Deas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lannraig”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lanark”
  • Silesian: “Lanark”
  • Slovak: “Lanark”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لنارک”
  • Spanish: “Lanark”
  • Swedish: “Lanark”
  • Turkish: “Lanark”
  • Ukrainian: “Ланарк”
  • Welsh: “Lanark”
  • “Lanark”

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