Thurso
Thurso is a town in Caithness on the far north coast of Scotland, with a population of 7390 in 2020. The name probably refers to the deity Thor, and this area was Norse until the 13th century.
- Type: Town with 7,390 residents
- Description: town in Caithness, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Tarvodubron”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Thurso Castle and Thurso railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scrabster and Burnside.
Scrabster
Village
Thurso
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.5947° or 58° 35′ 41″ north
Longitude
-3.5206° or 3° 31′ 14″ west
Population
7,390
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB THR
Open location code
9CCRHFVH+VQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Thurso” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تورسو”
- Asturian: “Thurso”
- Basque: “Thurso”
- Belarusian: “Тэрса”
- Bengali: “তুরসো”
- Breton: “Inbhir Theòrsa”
- Catalan: “Thurso”
- Cebuano: “Thurso”
- Chinese: “瑟索”
- Chinese: “苏尔索”
- Chinese: “蘇爾索”
- Cornish: “Inbhir Theòrsa”
- Danish: “Thurso”
- Dutch: “Thurso”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تورسو”
- Esperanto: “Thurso”
- French: “Thurso”
- German: “Thurso”
- Gujarati: “થુરસો”
- Hebrew: “תורסו”
- Icelandic: “Thurso”
- Irish: “Inbhir Theórsa”
- Irish: “Inbhir Theòrsa”
- Italian: “Thurso”
- Japanese: “サーソー”
- Kannada: “ತುರ್ಸೊ”
- Korean: “서소”
- Latvian: “Tērso”
- Lithuanian: “Tursas”
- Manx: “Inbhir Theòrsa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thurso”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thurso”
- Norwegian: “Thurso”
- Persian: “تورسو”
- Polish: “Thurso”
- Portuguese: “Thurso”
- Russian: “Терсо”
- Scots: “Thirsa”
- Scots: “Thursa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Theòrsa”
- Sindhi: “ٿرسو”
- Slovenian: “Thurso”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورسو”
- Spanish: “Thurso”
- Swedish: “Thurso”
- Tamil: “துர்சோ”
- Telugu: “తుర్సో”
- Ukrainian: “Терсо”
- Urdu: “تھرسو”
- Vietnamese: “Thurso”
- Welsh: “Inbhir Theòrsa”
- Welsh: “Thurso”
- “Thurso - Inbhir Theòrsa”
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