Wigtownshire
county of Scotland, registration county in Galloway
Facts
13 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- registration county, lieutenancy area of Scotland, Scottish district, shire of Scotland, historic county of the United Kingdom[4][5][6][7]
- Native label
- Siorrachd Bhaile na h-Ùige, Wigtownshire
- Official name
- Siorrachd Wigtown, Wigtownshire
Location
- Country
- United Kingdom[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 54.833°, -4.750°[13]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Dumfries and Galloway[2]
- Shares border with
- Ayrshire, Kirkcudbrightshire[8][9]
Population and size
More facts +5
- Located in
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 54.833°, -4.750°
- Described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15][16]
🏷️ Also known as
en County of Wigtown
en Siorrachd Bhaile na h-Ùige
en West Galloway
en Wigtownshire
en-gb West Galloway
ja ウィグタウンシャー
ja ウィッグトンシャー
ja ウィトゥンシャー
ja ウィトゥンシャー州
ru Уигтауншир
zh 威格敦郡
🔖 Identifiers · 17
- VIAF cluster ID
- 152549627
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n88096645
- BBC Things ID
- 46e3b58c-dd96-4ee4-b2ea-d999a750a653
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Wigtownshire
- FactGrid item ID
- Sylvain Wiltord
- Freebase ID
- /m/028wz7
- GENUKI ID
- sct/WIG
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2611742
- Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
- counties/countyfirst31, features/featurefirst8756
- GeoNames ID
- 2633928
- J9U entity ID
- 987007564804405171
- SNARC ID
- Warsaw
Show all 17 identifiers +5
- Topic's main category
- Category:Wigtownshire
- Vision of Britain place ID
- 17445
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- wh43n8m8
- Wikishire article ID
- Wigtownshire
- Yale LUX ID
- place/20981711-135b-4a62-a984-9288e1f1280e
📚 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
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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.
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🔗 Connections
← Historic county 64
Stranraer,
Whithorn,
Wigtown,
Cairnryan,
Mull of Galloway,
Newton Stewart,
Glenluce,
Portpatrick
+56 more
Contained subdivisions 4
People born here 3
Described by source 2
Instance of 2
Shares border with 2
← Shares border with 2
Country 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Part of 1
People who died here 1
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Summary
Wigtownshire is a registration county[1].