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Scotland, one of the four constituent nations of the , is a beautiful country well known for its dramatic scenery of mountains and valleys, rolling hills, green fields and forests, and rugged coastline.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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is the capital of Scotland, located in the Central Belt of the country. With a population of 526,470 in the urban area in 2021, and 901,455 in the metropolitans, fizzes with a cosmopolitan yet uniquely Scottish atmosphere.

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is the largest city in Scotland on in the Central Belt. reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.

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is the third-largest city in Scotland, , with a population of almost 200,000. It is a harbour city on Scotland's north-east coast, approximately 120 miles north of Edinburgh and 400 miles north of London, where the Rivers Dee and Don meet the North Sea.

Destinations to Discover

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The of Scotland is the broad lowland strip between the Firth of Forth in the east and the Firth of Clyde in the west. It includes Edinburgh and Glasgow the two principal cities, and a string of other large towns: most of the Scottish population live here.

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is the low-lying eastern region of Scotland bounded by the Firth of Forth to the south and the Moray Firth to the north; its cities are Aberdeen, Dundee and Perth.

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The are the rugged northern and northwestern portion of Scotland. This is the Scotland conjured up by visions of tartan, kilts, Bonnie Prince Charlie and all.

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The are the islands off the west coast of Scotland - an inner and outer archipelago are separated by the Minch sea channel. They are rugged and thinly populated, but scenic especially on the inner islands.

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Scotland is a lowland region of Scotland, a triangle bounded to the west by the Firth of Clyde and to the south by the Solway Firth. It's mostly rural, but with a strip of resort towns along the Clyde coast and industry inland.

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The are an archipelago of over 70 islands some 10 miles off the north tip of mainland Scotland. They've been settled since the Neolithic period and have a remarkable collection of standing stones, early settlements and burial cairns, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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The are the most northerly part of the United Kingdom, a group of islands 100 mi north of mainland Scotland. The largest town, , is closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and culturally and geographically they feel more Norse than Scottish.

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The is a region in south-east Scotland adjoining the border with England. That made medieval Scottish kings keen to embellish it, and they created four magnificent abbeys here.
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Scotland

Latitude of center
56.4989° or 56° 29′ 56″ north
Longitude of center
-4.2188° or 4° 13′ 8″ west
Population
5,440,000
Elevation
561 feet (171 metres)
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2638360
Wiki­data ID
Q22
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Scotland” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Skotland”
  • Akan: “Scotland”
  • Albanian: “Skocia”
  • Amharic: “ስኮትላንድ”
  • Angika: “स्कॉट्लैण्ड”
  • Arabic: “أسكتلندا”
  • Arabic: “إسكتلندا”
  • Arabic: “اسكتلندا”
  • Arabic: “اسكوتلندا”
  • Arabic: “سكوتلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Escocia”
  • Armenian: “Շոտլանդիա”
  • Asturian: “Escocia”
  • Asturian: “Scotland”
  • Asturian: “SCT”
  • Aymara: “Iskusiya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şotlandiya”
  • Balinese: “Skotlandia”
  • Bashkir: “Шотландия”
  • Basque: “Eskozia”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Skotlandia”
  • Bavarian: “Schottland”
  • Belarusian: “Шатландыя”
  • Belarusian: “Шатляндыя”
  • Belarusian: “Шкотыя”
  • Belarusian: “Шкоцыя”
  • Bengali: “আলবা”
  • Bengali: “ইউকে-এসসি”
  • Bengali: “ক্যালেডোনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “স্কটল্যান্ড, যুক্তরাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “স্কটল্যান্ড”
  • Betawi: “Skotlan”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्काट लैंड”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्काटलैंड”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्कॉटलैंड”
  • Bosnian: “Škotska”
  • Breton: “Alba”
  • Breton: “Bro-Skos”
  • Breton: “Skos”
  • Bulgarian: “Шотландия”
  • Burmese: “စကော့တလန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Escòcia”
  • Catalan: “Scotland”
  • Cebuano: “Scotland”
  • Central Bikol: “Eskosya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Scotland”
  • Central Kurdish: “سکۆتلاند”
  • Central Kurdish: “سکۆتلەندا”
  • Chavacano: “Escocia”
  • Chechen: “Шотланди”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᎧᏘᎳᏂ”
  • Chinese: “So͘-kat-lân”
  • Chinese: “加勒多尼亞”
  • Chinese: “喀里多尼亞”
  • Chinese: “苏格兰”
  • Chinese: “蘇格蘭”
  • Chinese: “阿尔巴”
  • Chuvash: “Шотланди”
  • Cornish: “Alban”
  • Corsican: “Scozia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İskoçiya”
  • Croatian: “Kaledonija”
  • Croatian: “Škotska”
  • Czech: “Skotsko”
  • Danish: “Skotland”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İskoçya”
  • Dotyali: “स्कटल्याण्ड”
  • Dutch: “Schotland”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨིས་ཀོཊ་ལེནཌ།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسكتلاندا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سكوتلاند”
  • Erzya: “Шотландия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Skotio”
  • Esperanto: “Skotlando”
  • Esperanto: “Skotujo”
  • Estonian: “Šotimaa”
  • Extremaduran: “Escocia”
  • Extremaduran: “Escócia”
  • Faroese: “Skotland”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Scotland”
  • Fijian: “Sikoteladi”
  • Finnish: “Skotlanti”
  • French: “Ecosse”
  • French: “Écosse”
  • Galician: “Escocia”
  • Georgian: “შოტლანდია”
  • German: “Schottland”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Scotland”
  • Gilaki: “اسكاتلند”
  • Gilaki: “اسکاتلند”
  • Goan Konkani: “Scotland”
  • Goan Konkani: “स्कॉटलंड”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍄𐌴𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Σκωτία”
  • Guarani: “Ekósia”
  • Gujarati: “સ્કોટલેન્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Ekòs”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Scotland”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sû-kak-làn”
  • Hausa: “Scotland”
  • Hawaiian: “Kekokia”
  • Hebrew: “סקוטלנד”
  • Hindi: “स्कॉटलैंड”
  • Hindi: “स्कॉटलैण्ड”
  • Hindi: “स्कॉट्लैण्ड”
  • Hindi: “स्कॉट्लैण्ड्”
  • Hungarian: “Skócia”
  • Icelandic: “Skotland”
  • Ido: “Skotia”
  • Iloko: “Eskosia”
  • Inari Sami: “Skotland”
  • Indonesian: “Skotlandia”
  • Interlingua: “Scotia”
  • Interlingue: “Scotia”
  • Irish: “Alba”
  • Irish: “Albain”
  • Italian: “Scozia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Skatlan”
  • Japanese: “アルバ”
  • Japanese: “カレドニア”
  • Japanese: “スコット”
  • Japanese: “すこっとらんど”
  • Japanese: “スコットランド”
  • Japanese: “蘇格蘭”
  • Javanese: “Sekotlan”
  • Javanese: “Skotlandia”
  • Kabardian: “Искочый”
  • Kabardian: “Шотлэнд”
  • Kabiyè: “Ekɔsɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Skutlanda”
  • Kalmyk: “Скотишин Таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಬಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕಾಟ್ ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕಾಟ್‌ಲೆಂಡ್”
  • Kanuri: “Scotland”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shotlandiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Шотландия”
  • Kashmiri: “سٕکاٹ لینٛڈ”
  • Kashubian: “Szkòckô”
  • Kazakh: “Шотландия”
  • Khmer: “ស្កុតឡិន”
  • Khmer: “ស្កុតឡែន”
  • Kirghiz: “Шотландия”
  • Kölsch: “Schottland”
  • Komering: “Skotlandia”
  • Komi: “Шотландия”
  • Korean: “스코틀랜드”
  • Kurdish: “Skoçya”
  • Kurdish: “Skotland”
  • Kurdish: “Skotlenda”
  • Kurdish: “سکۆتلەندا”
  • Kurdish: “سکۆچیا”
  • Ladin: “Scozia”
  • Ladino: “Eskosia”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເອກົດ”
  • Latin: “Caledonia”
  • Latin: “Scotia”
  • Latvian: “Skotija”
  • Ligurian: “Scòçia”
  • Limburgan: “Sjotland”
  • Lingala: “Ekósi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Scotland”
  • Literary Chinese: “蘇格蘭”
  • Lithuanian: “Škotija”
  • Lojban: “sunko’ogu’e”
  • Lombard: “Scozia”
  • Low German: “Schotlaand”
  • Low German: “Schottland”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Šotiska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schottland”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Scotlandia”
  • Macedonian: “Шкотска”
  • Malagasy: “Ekôsy”
  • Malay: “Scotland”
  • Malay: “سکوتلند”
  • Malayalam: “സ്കോട്ട് ലൻഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “സ്കോട്ട്‌ലൻഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “സ്കോട്ട്‌ലാന്റ്”
  • Maltese: “Skozja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁ꯭ꯀꯣꯠꯂꯦꯟ”
  • Manx: “Alba”
  • Manx: “Albey”
  • Manx: “Albin”
  • Manx: “Caladoan”
  • Manx: “Çheer ny h-Albey”
  • Manx: “Nalbin”
  • Manx: “ny h-Albey”
  • Manx: “ny hAlbey”
  • Manx: “Scotland”
  • Manx: “y Chaladoan”
  • Maori: “Kōtarana”
  • Maori: “Kōtarani”
  • Maori: “Kōtarania”
  • Maori: “Koterangi”
  • Maori: “Kōtirana”
  • Maori: “Kōtirangi”
  • Marathi: “स्कॉटलंड”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکاتلند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sŭ-gáik-làng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Scot-tē”
  • Minangkabau: “Skotlandia”
  • Mingrelian: “შოტლანდია”
  • Mirandese: “Scócia”
  • Mon: “သကတ်လာန်”
  • Mongolian: “Шотланд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سكوطلاندا”
  • Narom: “Êcosse”
  • Nepali: “स्कटल्यान्ड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Skotlun”
  • Northern Sami: “Skotlánda”
  • Northern Sami: “Skottlánda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skottland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skottland”
  • Norwegian: “Skottland”
  • Novial: “Skotia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Escòcia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scotland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sċotland”
  • Ossetian: “Шотланди”
  • Pa'o Karen: “သကော့တလန်ခမ်းထီ”
  • Pampanga: “Scotland”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਕਾਟਲੈਂਡ”
  • Papiamento: “Eskosia”
  • Persian: “اسکاتلند”
  • Picard: “Écosse”
  • Piemontese: “Scòssia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Skotlund”
  • Polish: “Alba”
  • Polish: “Szkocja, Wielka Brytania”
  • Polish: “Szkocja”
  • Portuguese: “Escócia, Reino Unido”
  • Portuguese: “Escócia”
  • Pushto: “سکاټ لينډ”
  • Pushto: “سکاټلينډ”
  • Quechua: “Iskusiya”
  • Quechua: “Iskusya”
  • Quechua: “Iskuthallp’a”
  • Quechua: “Iskutsuyu”
  • Quechua: “Iskutusuyu”
  • Romanian: “Scoția”
  • Romansh: “Scozia”
  • Russia Buriat: “Шотланд”
  • Russian: “Альба”
  • Russian: “Шотландия”
  • Rusyn: “Шкоция”
  • Samoan: “Sikotilani”
  • Samogitian: “Škuotėjė”
  • Sanskrit: “स्कॉट्लैण्ड्”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱠᱚᱴᱞᱮᱱᱰ”
  • Sardinian: “Iscotzia”
  • Sardinian: “Iscòtzia”
  • Sardinian: “Scotzia”
  • Sardinian: “Scòtzia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Skotlound”
  • Scots: “Scotland”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alba”
  • Serbian: “Scot”
  • Serbian: “SCT”
  • Serbian: “Алба”
  • Serbian: “Каледонија”
  • Serbian: “Шкотска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Škotska”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသၵွတ်ႉတလႅၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Scotland”
  • Sicilian: “Scozzia”
  • Silesian: “Szkocyjo”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪاٽ لينڊ، برطانيا”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪاٽ لينڊ”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪاٽ”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪاٽلينڊ”
  • Sindhi: “البا”
  • Sindhi: “ڪاليدونيا”
  • Sindhi: “ڪاليڊونيا”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيليڊونيا”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කොට්ලන්තය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Skotlantt”
  • Slovak: “Škótsko”
  • Slovenian: “Škotska”
  • Somali: “Skotland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسکاتلند”
  • Spanish: “Caledonia”
  • Spanish: “Escocia”
  • Sundanese: “Skotlandia”
  • Swahili: “Uskoti”
  • Swati: “Sikoshilandi”
  • Swedish: “Skottland”
  • Swiss German: “Schottland”
  • Tachelhit: “Ṣkuṭlanda”
  • Tagalog: “Eskosya”
  • Tagalog: “Scotland”
  • Tajik: “Шотландия”
  • Talysh: “Šotlandijə”
  • Talysh: “Şotlandiyə”
  • Tamil: “ஆல்பா”
  • Tamil: “இசுக்கொட்லாந்து”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்காட்லாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Шотландия”
  • Telugu: “స్కాట్లాండ్”
  • Tetum: “Eskósia”
  • Thai: “Scotland”
  • Thai: “แคว้นสกอตแลนด์”
  • Thai: “แคว้นสก็อตแลนด์”
  • Thai: “ประเทศสกอตแลนด์”
  • Thai: “ประเทศสก็อตแลนด์”
  • Thai: “ประเทศสก๊อตแลนด์”
  • Thai: “สก็อต”
  • Thai: “สก็อตแลนด์”
  • Thai: “สก๊อตแลนด์”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ཁོ་ཁྲི་ལན་ཌི།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Skotlan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sikotilani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Schottland”
  • Turkish: “İskoçya”
  • Turkmen: “Şotlandiýa”
  • Udmurt: “Шотландия”
  • Uighur: “Shotlandiye”
  • Uighur: “شوتلاندىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Шотландія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Šotiska”
  • Urdu: “اسکاٹ لینڈ”
  • Urdu: “کالیڈونیا”
  • Uzbek: “Shotlandiya”
  • Venetian: “Scòsia”
  • Venetian: “Scozia”
  • Veps: “Šotlandii”
  • Vietnamese: “Ê-cốt”
  • Vietnamese: “Scotland”
  • Vietnamese: “Tô Cách Lan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tô-cách-lan”
  • Vlaams: “Schotland”
  • Vlax Romani: “Scotland”
  • Volapük: “Skotän”
  • Võro: “Sotimaa”
  • Walloon: “Escôsse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Escocia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Scotland”
  • Welsh: “Yr Alban”
  • Western Armenian: “Սկովտիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Սքոթլանտա”
  • Western Frisian: “Skotlân”
  • Western Panjabi: “سکاٹ لینڈ”
  • Western Panjabi: “سکاٹلینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏格兰”
  • Xhosa: “ESkotlani”
  • Yakut: “Шотландия”
  • Yiddish: “סקאטלאנד”
  • Yoruba: “Skọ́tlándì”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇格蘭”
  • Zeeuws: “Schotland”
  • Zulu: “IsiKotilandi”
  • “Escotlālpan”
  • “ma Sukosi”
  • “Scòsia”
  • “Scotlandia”
  • “Škuotėjė”
  • “Sotimaa”
  • “स्कॉटलैंड”

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