Musselburgh
Musselburgh is the largest town in East Lothian in central Scotland, six miles east of Edinburgh city centre. It's an old fishing port which is now part of the commuter belt, with a population in 2020 of 21,100.
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- Type: Town with 23,600 residents
- Description: town in East Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Baile nam Feusgain”, “Массельбург”, and “マセルバラ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Musselburgh railway station and Inveresk Lodge Garden.
Musselburgh railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Edinburgh and Wallyford.
Musselburgh
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9421° or 55° 56′ 32″ north
Longitude
-3.0539° or 3° 3′ 14″ west
Population
23,600
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB MUS
Open location code
9C7RWWRW+RF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Musselburgh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماسلبره”
- Armenian: “Մասլբորո”
- Asturian: “Musselburgh”
- Azerbaijani: “Masselboro”
- Basque: “Musselburgh”
- Bengali: “মুসেলবার্গ”
- Bulgarian: “Муселбургх”
- Catalan: “Musselburgh”
- Cebuano: “Musselburgh”
- Chinese: “馬瑟爾堡”
- Chinese: “马瑟尔堡”
- Czech: “Musselburgh”
- Dutch: “Musselburgh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماسلبيرج”
- French: “Musselburgh”
- Georgian: “მასელბორო”
- German: “Musselburgh”
- Gujarati: “મુસેલબર્ગ”
- Hebrew: “מוסלבורג”
- Irish: “Baile nam Feusgan”
- Italian: “Musselburgh”
- Japanese: “マッセルバラ”
- Kannada: “ಮುಸ್ಸೆಲ್ಬರ್ಗ್”
- Korean: “머슬버러”
- Lithuanian: “Miuselburgas”
- Macedonian: “Маселбург”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Musselburgh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Musselburgh”
- Norwegian: “Musselburgh”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Musselburgh”
- Persian: “ماسلبرگ”
- Polish: “Musselburgh”
- Portuguese: “Musselburgh”
- Russian: “Масселборо”
- Scots: “Musselburrae”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile nam Feusgan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Musselburgh”
- Slovak: “Musselburgh”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماسلبرق”
- Spanish: “Musselburgh”
- Swedish: “Musselburgh”
- Tamil: “மஸ்ஸபுரஃஹ்”
- Telugu: “ముస్సేల్ బర్గ్”
- Ukrainian: “Масселбург”
- Urdu: “مسسیلبورگھ”
- Urdu: “مسلبرگھ”
- Welsh: “Musselburgh”
- “Musselburgh”
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