Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is a region in south-east Scotland adjoining the border with England. That made medieval Scottish kings keen to embellish it, and they created four magnificent abbeys here.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Jedburgh
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Jedburgh is a town in the Scottish Borders, ten miles north of the border with England.
Melrose
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Melrose is a town in the Borders Region of southern Scotland, with a population of 2,510 in 2016.
Hawick
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Hawick is a town in the Scottish Borders, midway along the historic route from Carlisle to Edinburgh, with a population of 10,630 in 2020.
Destinations
Kelso
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Kelso is a small market town in the Borders region of southern Scotland, with a population of 6900 in 2020.
Galashiels
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Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders, 33 miles south of Edinburgh.
Peebles
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Peebles is a town in the Scottish Borders, with a population in 2020 of 9000.
Eyemouth
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Eyemouth is a small town of 3,600 people in the Scottish Borders.
Selkirk
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Selkirk is a market town in the Scottish Borders, with a population in 2020 of 4540.
Kirk Yetholm
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Kirk Yetholm is a village in the Scottish Borders, best known as the northern terminus of the 268-mile Pennine Way.
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Scottish Borders
- Type: County with 116,000 residents
- Description: council area of Scotland
- Neighbors: Dumfries and Galloway and Northumberland
- Categories: Scottish council area, Scottish region and locality
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
55.5833° or 55° 35' northLongitude of centre
-2.8333° or 2° 50' westPopulation
116,000Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)Abbreviation
SCBOpenStreetMap ID
node 302323566OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
2655192Wikidata ID
Q211113Scottish Borders Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Armenian: Սքոթիշ Բորդերս
- Azerbaijani: Scottiş-Borders
- Basque: Scottish Borders
- Belarusian: Скотыш-Бордэрс
- Belarusian: Скоціш-Бордэрс
- Belarusian: Шатландскія межы
- Bengali: স্কটিশ বর্ডার
- Breton: Scottish Borders
- Bulgarian: Шотландски граници
- Catalan: Scottish Borders
- Cebuano: The Scottish Borders
- Chinese: Scottish Borders
- Chinese: 博德斯
- Chinese: 苏格兰边区
- Chinese: 蘇格蘭邊區
- Czech: Scottish Borders
- Danish: Scottish Borders
- Dutch: Schotse Borders
- Dutch: Scottish Borders
- English: The Scottish Borders
- Esperanto: Skotaj Limoj
- Estonian: Scottish Borders
- Fiji Hindi: Scottish Borders
- Finnish: Scottish Borders
- French: Marches écossaises
- French: Scottish Borders
- Georgian: სკოტიშ-ბორდერსი
- German: GB-SCB
- German: Scottish Borders
- Gujarati: સ્કોટિશ બોર્ડર્સ
- Hebrew: דרום-מזרח סקוטלנד
- Icelandic: Scottish Borders
- Indonesian: Scottish Borders
- Irish: Comhairle Chrìochan na h-Alba
- Irish: Comhairle nan Crìochan
- Irish: Comhairle nan Críochan
- Italian: Scottish Borders
- Japanese: スコティッシュボーダーズ
- Japanese: スコティッシュ・ボーダーズ
- Japanese: ボーダー地方
- Kannada: ಸ್ಕಾಟಿಷ್ ಬಾರ್ಡರ್ಸ್
- Korean: 스코티쉬보더스
- Korean: 스코티쉬 보더스
- Korean: 스코티쉬보더스 주
- Korean: 스코티쉬 보더스 주
- Korean: 스코티시보더스
- Korean: 스코티시 보더스
- Korean: 스코티시 보더스 주
- Korean: 스코티시보더스 주
- Lithuanian: Bordersas
- Lithuanian: Škotų Sienos
- Manx: Creeaghyn ny h-Albey
- Min Nan Chinese: Scottish Borders
- Northern Frisian: Scottish Borders
- Norwegian: Scottish Borders
- Norwegian Bokmål: Scottish Borders
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Dei skotske grensene
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Scottish Borders
- Persian: اسکاتیش بوردرز
- Persian: اسکوتیش بوردرز
- Polish: Granice Szkocji
- Polish: Scottish Borders
- Portuguese: Crìochan na h-Alba
- Portuguese: Scottish Borders
- Romanian: Scottish Borders
- Russian: Скоттиш-Бордерс
- Russian: Шотландские границы
- Scots: Scots Borders
- Scots: The Mairches
- Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Chrìochan na h-Alba
- Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle nan Crìochan
- Serbo-Croatian: Scottish Borders
- Slovenian: Scottish Borders
- Spanish: Borders
- Spanish: Scottish Borders
- Swedish: Borders
- Swedish: Scottish Borders
- Tagalog: Scottish Borders
- Tamil: ஸ்காட்டிஷ் பார்டர்ஸ்
- Telugu: స్కాటిష్ బార్దర్స్
- Turkish: Scottish Borders
- Ukrainian: Скоттіш-Бордерс
- Urdu: سکاٹش بارڈرز
- Welsh: Gororau'r Alban
- Western Panjabi: سکاٹش بارڈرز
- Yue Chinese: 蘇格蘭邊區
- Borders Region
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Scottish Borders. Photo: Andrew Bowden, CC BY-SA 2.0.