Moray
Moray is a county in the northeast of Scotland, with Aberdeenshire to its south and east, and Highland region west. It's bounded to the north by the Moray Firth, an arm of the North Sea. It's mostly rural, and in 2019 had a population of 95,520.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Elgin and Lossiemouth.
Elgin
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Elgin is the county town of Moray in northeast Scotland, best known for its ruined cathedral which made it a "city". Together with nearby Lossiemouth it's the service town for two nearby Royal Air Force bases, with a population in 2016 of 24,760.
Lossiemouth
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Lossiemouth is a village on the coast of Moray in North East Scotland, with a population in 2016 of 7870. It developed as a fishing port in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the harbour is small and that industry has gone.
Forres
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Forres is a town in Moray in northeast Scotland, with a population of 9090 in 2020. By the second century AD it was sufficiently famous to be mapped as Οὐάραρ εἴσχυσις — "Varar Estuary" — by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria.
Moray
- Type: registration county with 67,600 residents
- Description: historic and registration county of Scotland
- Also known as: “County of Moray”, “Elgin and Forres”, “Elginshire”, and “Morayshire”
- Categories: shire of Scotland and historic county of the United Kingdom
- Location: North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
57.4167° or 57° 25′ northLongitude of center
-3.25° or 3° 15′ westPopulation
67,600Wikidata ID
Q1247435
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Moray” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Siorrachd Mhoireibh”
- Chinese: “马里郡”
- Czech: “Morayshire”
- Dutch: “County of Moray”
- French: “Morayshire”
- German: “Moray”
- German: “Morayshire”
- Irish: “Moireibh”
- Irish: “Siorrachd Mhoireibh”
- Italian: “Conte di Moray”
- Italian: “Contea di Moray”
- Italian: “Elginshire”
- Italian: “Morayshire”
- Italian: “Signore di Moray”
- Japanese: “エルギンシャー”
- Japanese: “マレーカウンティ”
- Japanese: “モレイシャー”
- Kurdish: “Morayshire”
- Latin: “Elginensis”
- Latin: “Morayshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Morefscīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mōrifsċīr”
- Polish: “Elgin”
- Polish: “Elginshire”
- Polish: “Moray”
- Polish: “Morayshire”
- Russian: “Морей”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Mhoireibh”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Moray”
- Slovenian: “County of Moray”
- Slovenian: “Elgin and Forres”
- Slovenian: “Elginshire”
- Slovenian: “Morayshire”
- Venetian: “contea de Moray”
- Welsh: “Swydd Moray”
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