Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders 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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Galashiels
Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders, 33 miles south of Edinburgh.
Scottish Borders
- County with about 116,000 residents
- …is abbreviated as “SCB”
- Description: council area of Scotland
- Also known as“Borders Region”“Crìochan na h-Alba”“GB-SCB”“The Mairches”“The Scottish Borders”
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Latitude of center
55.5833° or 55° 35′ north
Longitude of center
-2.8333° or 2° 50′ west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Scottish Borders” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحدود الاسكتلندية”
- Armenian: “Սքոթիշ Բորդերս”
- Azerbaijani: “Scottiş-Borders”
- Basque: “Scottish Borders”
- Belarusian: “Скотыш-Бордэрс”
- Belarusian: “Скоціш-Бордэрс”
- Belarusian: “Шатландскія межы”
- Bengali: “স্কটিশ বর্ডার”
- Breton: “Scottish Borders”
- Bulgarian: “Шотландски граници”
- Catalan: “Scottish Borders”
- Cebuano: “The Scottish Borders”
- Chinese: “博德斯”
- Chinese: “苏格兰边区”
- Chinese: “蘇格蘭邊區”
- Czech: “Scottish Borders”
- Danish: “Scottish Borders”
- Dutch: “Schotse Borders”
- Dutch: “Scottish Borders”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سكوتيش بوردرز”
- Esperanto: “Crìochan na h-Alba”
- Esperanto: “GB-SCB”
- Esperanto: “Scottish Borders”
- Esperanto: “Skotaj Limoj”
- Esperanto: “The Mairches”
- Estonian: “Scottish Borders”
- Fiji Hindi: “Scottish Borders”
- Finnish: “Scottish Borders”
- French: “Marches écossaises”
- French: “Scottish Borders”
- Galician: “Scottish Borders”
- Georgian: “სკოტიშ-ბორდერსი”
- German: “Crìochan na h-Alba”
- German: “GB-SCB”
- German: “Scottish Borders”
- German: “The Mairches”
- German: “The Scottish Borders”
- Gujarati: “સ્કોટિશ બોર્ડર્સ”
- Hebrew: “דרום-מזרח סקוטלנד”
- Icelandic: “Scottish Borders”
- Ido: “Scottish Borders”
- Indonesian: “Scottish Borders”
- Irish: “Comhairle Chrìochan na h-Alba”
- Irish: “Comhairle nan Crìochan”
- Italian: “Scottish Borders”
- Japanese: “スコティッシュ・ボーダーズ”
- Japanese: “ボーダー地方”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಕಾಟಿಷ್ ಬಾರ್ಡರ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “스코티쉬 보더스 주”
- Korean: “스코티쉬 보더스”
- Korean: “스코티시 보더스 주”
- Korean: “스코티시 보더스”
- Latvian: “Skotišbordersa”
- Lithuanian: “Bordersas”
- Lithuanian: “Škotų Sienos”
- Manx: “Creeaghyn ny h-Albey”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Scottish Borders”
- Northern Frisian: “Scottish Borders”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Scottish Borders”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dei skotske grensene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scottish Borders”
- Norwegian: “Scottish Borders”
- Persian: “اسکاتیش بوردرز”
- Persian: “اسکوتیش بوردرز”
- Polish: “Scottish Borders”
- Portuguese: “Crìochan na h-Alba”
- Portuguese: “Scottish Borders”
- Romanian: “Scottish Borders”
- Russian: “Скоттиш-Бордерс”
- Russian: “Шотландские границы”
- Scots: “Scots Borders”
- Scots: “The Mairches”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Comhairle Chrìochan na h-Alba”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Crìochan na h-Alba”
- Scottish Gaelic: “sgìre Comhairle Chrìochan na h-Alba”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Scottish Borders”
- Slovenian: “Scottish Borders”
- Spanish: “Borders”
- Spanish: “Scottish Borders”
- Swedish: “Borders”
- Swedish: “Scottish Borders”
- Tagalog: “Scottish Borders”
- Tamil: “ஸ்காட்டிஷ் பார்டர்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “స్కాటిష్ బార్దర్స్”
- Turkish: “Scottish Borders”
- Ukrainian: “Скоттіш-Бордерс”
- Urdu: “اسکاٹش بارڈرز”
- Urdu: “سکاٹش بارڈرز”
- Welsh: “Gororau’r Alban”
- Western Panjabi: “سکاٹش بارڈرز”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇格蘭邊區”
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
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