Wigtown
town famous for books in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Facts
10 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- town, small burgh
Location
- Country
- United Kingdom[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 54.867°, -4.444°[5]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Dumfries and Galloway, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Wigtownshire[2]
Population and size
More facts +3
- Described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8]
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- OS grid reference
- NX435555[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Baile na h-Ùige
en Wigtown
es Baile na h-Ùige
fa ویگتاون
fr Baile na h-Ùige
ja ウィグタウン
ru Уигтаун
zh 威格敦
🔖 Identifiers · 22
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Baile na h-Uige 775281.jpg ↗
- BBC News topic ID
- cy4ngm8yg61t
- BBC Things ID
- 66e57924-a873-49b4-921c-c7e5178610c8
- De Agostini ID
- Wigtown
- FactGrid item ID
- Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Freebase ID
- /m/011w6y
- GB1900 ID
- 5806a6932c66dc1ce5001651
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2611738
- Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
- towns/townfirst363
- GeoNames ID
- 2633932
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- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 5000463
- SNARC ID
- Richard von Berendt
- TOID
- 4000000074565378
- Topic's main category
- Category:Wigtown
- UN/LOCODE
- GBWIG
- Vision of Britain place ID
- 16763
- Vision of Britain unit ID
- 10362477
- Who's on First ID
- 101873427
- Wikishire article ID
- Wigtown
- Yale LUX ID
- place/340f3bc0-8410-4138-859b-287326df94d8
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London
2026-09-26
P/PPL · GB
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as of 2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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People born here 2
People who died here 2
Country 1
Described by source 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Historic county 1
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Summary
Wigtown is a town[1].