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Stirling

Stirling is a city in the central lowlands of Scotland, and historically the county town of . 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.
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  • Type: City with 37,800 residents
  • Description: city in Scotland, UK
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stirling Castle and Stirling railway station.

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, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in . The castle sits atop an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation.

Railway station
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is a railway station located in Stirling, . It is located on the former Caledonian Railway main line between and .

Stadium
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is a football in Stirling, Scotland. Opened in 1993, it has been the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League club Stirling Albion since then.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bridge of Allan and Bannockburn.

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is a small Victorian Spa town in Stirlingshire in central Scotland, with a population of 5250 in 2021. Nestled beneath the iconic Wallace Monument, it's part of the city of Stirling.

Town
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is an area immediately south of the centre of Stirling in . It is part of the City of Stirling. It is named after the Bannock Burn, a stream running through the town before flowing into the .

Village
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is a village in Stirling, . In the 2001 census, it had a population of 3,224. There is evidence of settlement at the site since the Bronze Age, and several forts dating from the Iron Age have been found near the village.

Stirling

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
United Nations Location Code
GB SIG
Open location code
9C8R4397+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21091709
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2636910
Wiki­data ID
Q182923
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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: “Sruighlea”
  • Basque: “Stirling”
  • Belarusian: “Стэрлінг”
  • Bengali: “স্টারলিং”
  • Breton: “Sruighlea”
  • Bulgarian: “Стърлинг”
  • Catalan: “Stirling”
  • Cebuano: “Stirling (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)”
  • Cebuano: “Stirling”
  • Chinese: “Stirling”
  • Chinese: “史特靈”
  • Chinese: “士他令”
  • Chinese: “斯特灵”
  • Chinese: “斯特靈”
  • Czech: “Stirling”
  • Danish: “Stirling”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Stirling”
  • Dutch: “Stirling”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “استيرلينج”
  • Esperanto: “Stirling”
  • Estonian: “Stirling”
  • Estonian: “Strivelyn”
  • Finnish: “Stirling”
  • French: “Stirling”
  • Galician: “Sruighlea”
  • Galician: “Stirling”
  • German: “Stirling”
  • Greek: “Στέρλινγκ”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટર્લીંગ”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટીર્લીંગ”
  • Hebrew: “סטירלינג (עיר)”
  • Hebrew: “סטירלינג”
  • Hindi: “स्टर्लिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Stirling”
  • Icelandic: “Sruighlea”
  • Icelandic: “Stirlin”
  • Icelandic: “Stirling”
  • Indonesian: “Stirling”
  • Interlingue: “Stirling”
  • Irish: “Sruighle”
  • Irish: “Sruighlea”
  • Italian: “Stirling”
  • Japanese: “スターリング”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟರ್ಲಿಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಿರ್ಲಿಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Стерлинг”
  • Korean: “스털링”
  • Kurdish: “Stirling”
  • Latin: “Sterlinum”
  • Latin: “Stirlingum”
  • Latvian: “Stērlinga”
  • Latvian: “Stirlinga”
  • Lithuanian: “Sterlingas”
  • Lithuanian: “Stirlingas”
  • Lombard: “Stirling”
  • Malagasy: “Stirling”
  • Malay: “Stirling”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁ꯭ꯇꯤꯔꯂꯤꯡ”
  • Maori: “Stirling”
  • Marathi: “स्टर्लिंग”
  • 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: “Srivling”
  • Scots: “Stirlin”
  • Scots: “Stirling”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sruighlea”
  • Serbian: “Стирлинг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stirling”
  • Sindhi: “اسٽرلنگ”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ටර්ලින්”
  • Slovak: “Stirling”
  • Slovenian: “Stirling”
  • South Azerbaijani: “استیرلینق”
  • Spanish: “Stirling”
  • Spanish: “Strivelyn”
  • Swedish: “Stirling”
  • Tagalog: “Stirling”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டிர்லிங்”
  • Telugu: “స్టర్లింగ్”
  • Telugu: “స్టెర్లింగ్”
  • Thai: “Stirling”
  • Thai: “สเตอร์ลิง”
  • Turkish: “Royal Burgh of Stirling”
  • Turkish: “Sruighlea”
  • Turkish: “Stirlin”
  • Turkish: “Stirling”
  • Turkish: “Strivelyn”
  • Ukrainian: “Стерлінг”
  • Urdu: “سٹرلنگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Stirling”
  • Volapük: “Sruighlea”
  • Volapük: “Stirling”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Stirling”
  • Welsh: “Stirling”
  • Western Panjabi: “سٹرلنگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯特灵”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯特靈”
  • “Sruighlea”
  • “Stirling”

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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 “Stirling”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.