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Perth & Kinross

Perth

Perth is a city in in , with a population in 2016 of 47,430. It stands at a point where the River Tay channels between hills, turns sharply and becomes tidal and navigable.
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  • Type: City with 46,700 residents
  • Description: city in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Fair City”, “Peart”, and “Perth, Scotland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include McDiarmid Park and Perth railway station.

Stadium
Photo: Xizor75, Public domain.
is a in Perth, Scotland, used mainly for association football. It has been the home ground of Scottish Premiership side St Johnstone since its opening in 1989.

Railway station
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station located in the city of Perth, Scotland, on both the Glasgow to Dundee line and the Highland Main Line. It is managed by ScotRail, who provide almost all of the services.

Church
St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth is a cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scone and Bridge of Earn.

Town
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in , Scotland. The medieval town of , which grew up around the monastery and royal residence, was abandoned in the early 19th century when the residents were removed and a was built on the site by the Earl of Mansfield.

Town
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small town in , . Often referred to simply as 'Brig'. The village grew up on the south bank of an important crossing of the , whose sandstone bridge existed from at least the early 14th century, when it is known to have been repaired by order of King Robert I of Scotland.

Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , Scotland, about 4+1⁄2 miles northwest of Perth. It is part of the Strathtay Ward in Perth & Kinross Council.

Perth

Latitude
56.3959° or 56° 23′ 45″ north
Longitude
-3.4303° or 3° 25′ 49″ west
Population
46,700
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
IATA airport code
PSL
United Nations Location Code
GB PER
Open location code
9C8R9HW9+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21262494
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2640358
Wiki­data ID
Q203000
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Perth” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برث (أسكتلندا)”
  • Arabic: “برث”
  • Arabic: “بيرث (أسكتلندا)”
  • Arabic: “بيرث”
  • Armenian: “Փերթ”
  • Asturian: “Perth (Escocia)”
  • Asturian: “Perth”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pert”
  • Bashkir: “Перт (Шотландия)”
  • Bashkir: “Перт”
  • Basque: “Perth”
  • Belarusian: “Перт”
  • Belarusian: “Пэрт”
  • Bengali: “পার্থ”
  • Breton: “Peairt”
  • Breton: “Perth”
  • Bulgarian: “Пърт”
  • Catalan: “Perth”
  • Cebuano: “Perth”
  • Chinese: “伯斯”
  • Chinese: “巴富”
  • Chinese: “帕斯”
  • Chinese: “珀斯”
  • Chinese: “蘇格蘭珀斯”
  • Czech: “Perth”
  • Danish: “Perth”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Perth, İskoçya”
  • Dutch: “Perth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پرت”
  • Esperanto: “Perth”
  • Estonian: “Perth”
  • Finnish: “Perth”
  • French: “Peairt”
  • French: “Perth”
  • Galician: “Perth, Escocia”
  • Galician: “Perth”
  • German: “Perth”
  • Greek: “Περθ”
  • Gujarati: “પર્થ”
  • Hebrew: “פרת‘”
  • Hebrew: “פרת’”
  • Hebrew: “פרת”
  • Hindi: “पर्थ”
  • Hungarian: “Perth”
  • Icelandic: “Perth”
  • Indonesian: “Perth, Skotlandia”
  • Indonesian: “Perth”
  • Irish: “Peairt”
  • Italian: “Perth”
  • Japanese: “パース”
  • Kannada: “ಪರ್ತ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆರ್ತ್”
  • Kazakh: “Перт”
  • Korean: “퍼스”
  • Kurdish: “Perth, Skotlenda”
  • Latvian: “Pērta”
  • Lithuanian: “Pertas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sent Džonstonas”
  • Lombard: “Perth”
  • Luxembourgish: “Perth”
  • Malay: “Perth”
  • Marathi: “पर्थ”
  • Moksha: “Пэрт”
  • Nepali: “पर्थ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Perth (Skotlun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Perth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Perth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Perth i Skottland”
  • Norwegian: “Perth”
  • Ossetian: “Перт”
  • Persian: “پرت، اسکاتلند”
  • Persian: “پرت”
  • Persian: “پرث، اسکاتلند”
  • Persian: “پرث”
  • Polish: “Perth”
  • Portuguese: “Perth”
  • Romanian: “Perth, Scoția”
  • Romanian: “Perth”
  • Russian: “Perth”
  • Russian: “Перт (Шотландия)”
  • Russian: “Перт, Шотландия”
  • Russian: “Перт”
  • Scots: “Pairth”
  • Scots: “Perth”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Peairt”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Perth”
  • Serbian: “Перт (Шкотска)”
  • Serbian: “Перт, Шкотска”
  • Serbian: “Перт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Perth, Škotska”
  • Sindhi: “پرٿ، اسڪاٽلينڊ”
  • Sinhala: “පර්ත්”
  • Slovak: “Perth”
  • Slovenian: “Perth”
  • Spanish: “Peairt”
  • Spanish: “Perth”
  • Swedish: “Perth, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Perth”
  • Tamil: “பெர்த்”
  • Tatar: “Пөрт (Шотландия)”
  • Tatar: “Пөрт”
  • Telugu: “పెర్త్”
  • Thai: “เพิร์ท”
  • Turkish: “Perth, İskoçya”
  • Turkish: “Perth”
  • Ukrainian: “Перт”
  • Urdu: “پرتھ، سکاٹ لینڈ”
  • Urdu: “پرتھ”
  • Vietnamese: “Perth”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Perth, Scotland”
  • Welsh: “Peairt”
  • Welsh: “Perth, Yr Alban”
  • Welsh: “Perth”
  • Western Frisian: “Perth”
  • Western Panjabi: “پرتھ”
  • Wu Chinese: “珀斯 (英国)”
  • Wu Chinese: “珀斯（英国）”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴富”

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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 “Perth”. Photo: Rhodington, Public domain.