Lewis
Lewis and Harris are a single large island in the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. It's the third largest island in the British Archipelago, only Great Britain and Ireland being larger.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Stornoway and Great Bernera.
Stornoway
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lews Castle and Stornoway Airport.
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newmarket and Sandwick.
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Village
Lewis
- Type: Locality with 18,500 residents
- Description: northern part of the Scottish island Lewis and Harris
- Also known as: “Eilean Leòdhais”, “Isle of Lewis”, “Isle of Lewis (lungsod)”, “Isle of Lewis (samhälle)”, and “Leodhas”
- Postal code: HS2
- Category: peninsula
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.219° or 58° 13′ 8″ north
Longitude
-6.388° or 6° 23′ 17″ west
Population
18,500
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
Open location code
9CCM6J96+JQ
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lewis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة لويس”
- Armenian: “Լյուիս”
- Basque: “Lewis”
- Breton: “Leòdhas”
- Catalan: “Illa de Lewis”
- Catalan: “Lewis”
- Cebuano: “Isle of Lewis”
- Chinese: “刘易斯岛”
- Chinese: “劉易斯島”
- Czech: “Lewis”
- Danish: “Isle of Lewis”
- Danish: “Lewis”
- Dutch: “Lewis”
- Esperanto: “Lewis”
- Finnish: “Isle of Lewis”
- Finnish: “Leodhàs”
- French: “île de Lewis”
- French: “Île de Lewis”
- Galician: “Illa de Lewis”
- German: “Isle of Lewis”
- German: “Lewis”
- Hebrew: “האי לואיס”
- Hungarian: “Lewis”
- Icelandic: “Ljóðhús”
- Indonesian: “Lewis”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Lewis”
- Irish: “Leòdhas”
- Japanese: “ルイス島”
- Korean: “루이스섬”
- Lithuanian: “Liojis”
- Lithuanian: “Luiso sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lewis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lewis”
- Norwegian: “Lewis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lewis”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lewisīeg”
- Ossetian: “Льюис”
- Polish: “Lewis”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Lewis”
- Portuguese: “Lewis”
- Russian: “Остров Льюис”
- Scots: “Lewis”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Leodhais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Leòdhas”
- Slovenian: “Isle of Lewis”
- Spanish: “Isla de Lewis”
- Swedish: “Lewis, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Lewis”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Льюїс”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Lewis”
- Welsh: “Leòdhas”
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