South Uist
South Uist is an island in the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides of Scotland, with a population in 2022 of 1650. It extends 25 miles north-south and 5 miles east-west, and has long been linked by road north to Benbecula and North Uist, and since 2002 it has been linked south to Eriskay.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 1,820 residents
- Description: island of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Isle of South Uist”
- Postal code: HS8
Photo: timniblett, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beinn Mhòr.
Beinn Mhòr
Peak
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beinn Mhòr is a mountain on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With a height of 620 metres, it is the highest point on the island and the most westerly mountain in Scotland and Great Britain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bornish.
Bornish
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bornish is a village and community council area on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Bornish is also within the civil parish of South Uist. The A865 passes through Bornish, on the route between Lochmaddy and Lochboisdale.
South Uist
- Category: island
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“South Uist” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جنوب يويست”
- Basque: “South Uist”
- Breton: “Uibhist a Deas”
- Catalan: “South Uist”
- Catalan: “Uist del Sud”
- Cebuano: “South Uist (pulo sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “South Uist”
- Chinese: “南尤伊斯特岛”
- Chinese: “南尤伊斯特島”
- Czech: “Jižní Uist”
- Czech: “South Uist”
- Czech: “Uibhist a Deas”
- Dutch: “South Uist”
- Dutch: “Uibhist a Deas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنوب يويست”
- Esperanto: “Suda Uist”
- Finnish: “Etelä-Uist”
- Finnish: “South Uist”
- French: “South Uist”
- German: “South Uist”
- Greek: “Νότιο Γιούιστ”
- Hebrew: “אויסט דרומי”
- Indonesian: “Uist Selatan”
- Irish: “Uibhist a Deas”
- Italian: “South Uist”
- Japanese: “サウス・ウイスト島”
- Latin: “Uistus Australis”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų Juistas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Uist”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Uist”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uibhist a Deas”
- Norwegian: “South Uist”
- Polish: “South Uist”
- Portuguese: “South Uist”
- Russian: “Саут-Уист”
- Russian: “Южный Уист”
- Scots: “Sooth Uist”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Uibhist a Deas”
- Serbian: “Јужни Јујст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Južni Uist”
- Sicilian: “South Uist”
- Slovak: “South Uist”
- Spanish: “South Uist”
- Swedish: “South Uist”
- Welsh: “De Uist”
- Welsh: “Uibhist a Deas”
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