North Uist
North Uist is an island in the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures 20 miles north-south, 25 miles east-west, and is separated from Benbecula to the south by a tidal ford, nowadays bridged by a causeway.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 1,270 residents
- Description: island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Isle of North Uist”
- Postal code: HS6
Photo: Scot Tares, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Malaclete.
North Uist
- Category: island
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“North Uist” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “North Uist”
- Basque: “North Uist”
- Breton: “Uibhist a Tuath”
- Catalan: “North Uist”
- Cebuano: “North Uist (pulo sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “North Uist”
- Chinese: “北尤伊斯特岛”
- Czech: “North Uist”
- Czech: “Severní Uist”
- Czech: “Uibhist a Tuath”
- Dutch: “North Uist”
- Esperanto: “Norda Uist”
- French: “North Uist”
- Galician: “North Uist”
- German: “North Uist”
- Greek: “Βόρειο Γιούιστ”
- Hebrew: “אויסט צפוני”
- Indonesian: “Uist Utara”
- Irish: “Uibhist a Tuath”
- Irish: “Uibhist a-Tuath”
- Italian: “North Uist”
- Japanese: “ノース・ウイスト島”
- Latin: “Uistus Borealis”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Juistas”
- Manx: “Ooisht y Twoaie”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “North Uist”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “North Uist”
- Norwegian: “North Uist”
- Polish: “North Uist”
- Portuguese: “North Uist”
- Russian: “Норт-Уист”
- Russian: “Северный Уист”
- Scots: “North Uist”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Uibhist a Tuath”
- Serbian: “Северни Јујст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverni Uist”
- Slovak: “North Uist”
- Spanish: “North Uist”
- Swedish: “North Uist”
- Welsh: “Uibhist a Tuath”
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