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Lochinver

Lochinver is a small fishing village in in the , with a population of 651 in 2011. It's about 30 miles north of Ullapool. Lochinver starkly illustrates the plight of Scotland's fishing industry: many foreign trawlers land their catch here, but hardly any Scottish boats still operate.
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Lochinver

Latitude
58.1488° or 58° 8′ 56″ north
Longitude
-5.2392° or 5° 14′ 21″ west
Population
651
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LOV
Open location code
9CCP4QX6+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 341438540
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2643818
Wiki­data ID
Q1018747
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Lochinver” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Lochinver”
  • Bengali: “লোচিনভার”
  • Bulgarian: “Лочинвер”
  • Cebuano: “Lochinver”
  • Chinese: “洛欣弗”
  • Dutch: “Lochinver”
  • French: “Lochinver”
  • German: “Lochinver”
  • Irish: “Loch an Inbhir”
  • Italian: “Lochinver”
  • Persian: “لاکینور”
  • Scots: “Lochinver”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Loch an Inbhir”
  • Swedish: “Lochinver”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lochinver”. Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.