The Lothians
The Lothians is the collective name for the counties of Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian, plus Edinburgh city, in the Central Belt of Scotland.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Edinburgh and Old Town.
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The Lothians
- Type: Area with 858,000 residents
- Description: former local government region of Scotland
- Also known as: “Lothian”, “Lothian Region”, and “洛锡安行政区”
- Category: Scottish region
- Location: Central Belt, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
55.8667° or 55° 52′ north
Longitude of center
-3.15° or 3° 9′ west
Population
858,000
Elevation
433 feet (132 metres)
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“The Lothians” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوثيان”
- Armenian: “Լոթիան”
- Belarusian: “Лотыян”
- Breton: “Lothian”
- Catalan: “Lothian”
- Chinese: “洛錫安”
- Czech: “Lothian”
- Dutch: “Lothian”
- Esperanto: “Lothian”
- Finnish: “Lothian”
- French: “Lothian”
- German: “Lothian”
- Italian: “Lothian”
- Japanese: “ロージアン”
- Kazakh: “Лотиан”
- Korean: “로디언주”
- Lithuanian: “Lodianas”
- Northern Frisian: “Lothian”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lothian”
- Norwegian: “Lothian”
- Polish: “Lothian”
- Portuguese: “Lothian”
- Russian: “Лотиан”
- Scots: “Lowden”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn Lodainn”
- Serbian: “Лотијан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lothian”
- Slovak: “Lothian”
- Slovenian: “Lothian”
- Spanish: “Lothian”
- Swedish: “Lothian”
- Turkish: “Lothian”
- Ukrainian: “Лотіан”
- Urdu: “لوتھین”
- Welsh: “Lothian”
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