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Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is a council area in the of Scotland. It straddles the divide between lowlands and highlands, as the hills suddenly rear up from the broad valleys, and in 2019 it had a population of 151,290.
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is a city in and Kinross 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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is a town in Perth and Kinross on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, with a population in 2021 of 7330. It's a well-preserved Victorian resort town, along with Comrie to the west.

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is a small town in Perth and Kinross in , with a population of 1940 in 2021. That county straddles the Highland / Lowland divide, and is scenically very much in the central Highlands.

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is a village in the Highland part of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, on the east bank of the River Tay The village of is on the opposite bank, connected by the Telford Bridge; the combined population in 2021 was 1350.

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is a town in Perth and Kinross with a population in 2021 of 2950. It's 27 miles north of Perth in the valley of the River Tummel, long a major route between the Lowlands and the central Highlands.

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is a small town in Perth and , 13 miles south of Perth. With a population of 5650 in 2021, it stands on the shores of Loch Leven, with the scarp of the Lomond Hills looming to the east and a mysterious giant golf ball to the west.

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is an expanse of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch in Perth and Kinross, covering 50 square miles. Parts of it lie in other regions but the focus of this page is its remote centre, devoid of fields, dwellings or public roads.

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Blairgowrie & Rattray is a town in Perth and Kinross, 16 mi north of Perth, with a population of 9260 in 2021. Blairgowrie is the larger settlement, southwest of the River Ericht, and Rattray is northeast.

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is a village in Perth and Kinross in the Scottish Highlands, notable for its castle, and with a population of about 500. Ringed by the Cairngorm mountains and within , it's on the main route from Perth to Inverness.

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is a village in the Highland part of Perth and Kinross, which grew up in the 19th century as a resort town when the railway reached it. It's on the west bank of the River Tay, which here makes an S-bend, so it becomes the south bank.

Perth and Kinross

Latitude of center
56.5° or 56° 30′ north
Longitude of center
-3.75° or 3° 45′ west
Population
154,000
Elevation
1,654 feet (504 metres)
Abbreviation
“PKN”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302323678
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
3333234
Wiki­data ID
Q207679
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Perth and Kinross” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيرث وكينروس”
  • Armenian: “Փերթ և Կինրոս”
  • Asturian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pert və Kinross”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pert-end-Kinross”
  • Basque: “Perth eta Kinross”
  • Bavarian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Belarusian: “Перт-энд-Кінрос”
  • Belarusian: “Пэрт і Кінрас”
  • Belarusian: “Пэрт-і-Кінрас”
  • Bengali: “পার্থ ও কিনরোস”
  • Breton: “Peairt ha Ceann Rois”
  • Breton: “Peairt is Ceann Rois”
  • Bulgarian: “Пърт анд Кинрос”
  • Catalan: “Perth i Kinross”
  • Cebuano: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Chinese: “Perth kap Kinross”
  • Chinese: “伯斯-金羅斯”
  • Chinese: “珀斯-金罗斯”
  • Chinese: “珀斯-金羅斯”
  • Chinese: “珀斯和金罗斯”
  • Czech: “Perth a Kinross”
  • Czech: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Danish: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Dutch: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پيرث و كينروس”
  • Esperanto: “Perth kaj Kinross”
  • Estonian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Estonian: “Perth ja Kinross”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Finnish: “Perth ja Kinross”
  • French: “Perth and Kinross”
  • French: “Perth-et-Kinross”
  • German: “GB-PKN”
  • German: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Gujarati: “પર્થ અને કિનરોસ”
  • Hebrew: “פרת וקינרוס”
  • Hebrew: “פרת’ וקינרוס”
  • Icelandic: “Perth og Kinross”
  • Indonesian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Irish: “Comhairle Pheairt is Cheann Rois”
  • Irish: “Peairt agus Ceann Rois”
  • Italian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Italian: “Perth e Kinross”
  • Italian: “Perthshire e Kinross”
  • Japanese: “パース・アンド・キンロス”
  • Japanese: “パース・キンロス”
  • Japanese: “パースアンドキンロス”
  • Japanese: “パースキンロス”
  • Kannada: “ಪರ್ತ್ ಮತ್ತು ಕಿನ್ರಾಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Перт-энд-Кинросс”
  • Korean: “퍼스 킨로스 주”
  • Korean: “퍼스 킨로스”
  • Korean: “퍼스킨 로스 주”
  • Korean: “퍼스킨 앤 로스”
  • Korean: “퍼스킨 앤드 로스”
  • Korean: “퍼스킨로스 주”
  • Korean: “퍼스킨로스”
  • Lithuanian: “Pertas ir Kinrosas”
  • Macedonian: “Перт и Кинрос”
  • Manx: “Peairt as Ceann Rois”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Perth kap Kinross”
  • Northern Frisian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Perth og Kinross”
  • Norwegian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Ossetian: “Перт æмæ Кинросс”
  • Persian: “پرت و کینروس”
  • Polish: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Portuguese: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Romanian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Russian: “Перт-энд-Кинросс”
  • Scots: “Pairth an Kinross”
  • Scots: “Perth an Kinross”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Peairt agus Ceann Rois”
  • Serbian: “Википедија:Пренос чланака/Perth i Kinross”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Perth i Kinross”
  • Slovak: “Perth a Kinross”
  • Slovenian: “GB-PKN”
  • Slovenian: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Slovenian: “Perth in Kinross”
  • Spanish: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Swedish: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Swedish: “Perth och Kinross”
  • Tagalog: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Tamil: “பெர்த் & கிந்த்ரோஸ்”
  • Telugu: “పెర్త్ మరియు కిన్రోస్”
  • Turkish: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Ukrainian: “Перт-енд-Кінросс”
  • Ukrainian: “Перт-і-Кінросс”
  • Urdu: “پرتھ اینڈ کینروس”
  • Welsh: “Perth a Kinross”
  • Welsh: “Perth and Kinross”
  • Western Panjabi: “پرتھ اینڈ کنروس”

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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 and Kinross”. Photo: RobChafer, Public domain.