Stirling
Stirling is a city in the central lowlands of Scotland, and historically the county town of Stirlingshire. For centuries this was the main route between the Highlands and the Lowlands, guarded by the castle on its battleship of a crag, and with the River Forth sweeping round as a moat.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Stirling Castle and Stirling railway station.
Stirling railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridge of Allan and Bannockburn.
Stirling
- Categories: large burgh and locality
- Location: Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.1181° or 56° 7′ 5″ north
Longitude
-3.936° or 3° 56′ 10″ west
Population
37,800
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
IATA airport code
XWB
UN/LOCODE
GB SIG
Open location code
9C8R4397+6H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Stirling” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إستيرلينغ”
- Arabic: “استيرلينغ”
- Armenian: “Ստերլինգ”
- Asturian: “Stirling”
- Azerbaijani: “Stirlinq”
- Basque: “Stirling”
- Belarusian: “Стэрлінг”
- Bengali: “স্টারলিং”
- Breton: “Sruighlea”
- Bulgarian: “Стърлинг”
- Catalan: “Stirling”
- Cebuano: “Stirling (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)”
- Cebuano: “Stirling”
- Chinese: “史特靈”
- Chinese: “士他令”
- Chinese: “斯特灵”
- Czech: “Stirling”
- Danish: “Stirling”
- Dimli (individual language): “Stirling”
- Dutch: “Stirling”
- Egyptian Arabic: “استيرلينج”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ستيرلينج”
- Esperanto: “Stirling”
- Estonian: “Stirling”
- Finnish: “Stirling”
- French: “Stirling”
- Galician: “Stirling”
- German: “Stirling”
- Greek: “Στέρλινγκ”
- Gujarati: “સ્ટર્લીંગ”
- Hebrew: “סטרלינג”
- Hindi: “स्टर्लिंग”
- Hungarian: “Stirling”
- Icelandic: “Stirling”
- Ido: “Stirling”
- Indonesian: “Stirling”
- Interlingue: “Stirling”
- Irish: “Sruighle”
- Irish: “Sruighlea”
- Italian: “Stirling”
- Japanese: “スターリング”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಟರ್ಲಿಂಗ್”
- Kazakh: “Стерлинг”
- Korean: “스털링”
- Kurdish: “Stirling”
- Latin: “Stirlingum”
- Latvian: “Stērlinga”
- Lithuanian: “Sterlingas”
- Lithuanian: “Stirlingas”
- Lombard: “Stirling”
- Malagasy: “Stirling”
- Malay: “Stirling”
- Manipuri: “ꯁ꯭ꯇꯤꯔꯂꯤꯡ”
- Maori: “Stirling”
- Marathi: “स्टर्लिंग”
- Mongolian: “Стерлинг”
- Northern Frisian: “Stirling”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stirling”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stirling”
- Norwegian: “Stirling”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Striuelin”
- Persian: “استیرلینگ”
- Polish: “Stirling”
- Portuguese: “Stirling”
- Romanian: “Stirling”
- Russian: “Стерлинг”
- Scots: “Stirlin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sruighlea”
- Serbian: “Стирлинг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stirling”
- Sindhi: “اسٽرلنگ”
- Sinhala: “ස්ටර්ලින්”
- Slovak: “Stirling”
- Slovenian: “Stirling”
- South Azerbaijani: “استیرلینق”
- Spanish: “Stirling”
- Swedish: “Stirling”
- Tagalog: “Stirling”
- Tamil: “ஸ்டிர்லிங்”
- Telugu: “స్టర్లింగ్”
- Thai: “สเตอร์ลิง”
- Turkish: “Stirling”
- Ukrainian: “Стерлінг”
- Urdu: “سٹرلنگ”
- Vietnamese: “Stirling”
- Volapük: “Stirling”
- Waray (Philippines): “Stirling”
- Welsh: “Stirling”
- Western Panjabi: “سٹرلنگ”
- Wu Chinese: “斯特灵”
- Yue Chinese: “斯特靈”
- “Stirling”
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