Dumfries and Galloway
Facts
18 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- council area, Scottish region
- Inception
- 1975[8]
- Official website
- www.dumgal.gov.uk[10]
Location
- Country
- United Kingdom[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 55.070°, -3.603°
- Shares border with
- South Lanarkshire[5]
Population and size
- Area
- +6426.8845[28]
More facts +8
- Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway Council, Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council[9]
- Catalog code
- 8[7]
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire[31]
- Legislative body
- Dumfries and Galloway Council[6]
- Owner of
- Stair Park[27]
- VIAF cluster ID
- 158312278
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n83053211
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 5086
- BBC Things ID
- 93adce57-bf60-41ee-9953-ca9c00a91215
- BabelNet ID
- 00619059n
- De Agostini ID
- Dumfries+and+Galloway
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Dumfries-and-Galloway
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
- UKU2
- Freebase ID
- /m/011pcj
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2594814
- GSS code (2011)
- S12000006
Show all 36 identifiers +24
- Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
- councils/councilfirst7
- GeoNames ID
- 2650797
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- dumfries-i-galloway
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0023141
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Dumfries_and_Galloway
- HASC
- GB.DG
- INaturalist place ID
- 30457
- ISO 3166-2 code
- GB-DGY
- J9U entity ID
- 987007553078705171
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
- 11673
- Museum-digital place ID
- 71025
- MusicBrainz area ID
- 599a1181-1b8b-4869-a0e2-ce35be49b259
- NL CR AUT ID
- xx0319078
- OHDSI ID
- 4075795
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 1877232
- SNARC ID
- Johann Friedrich Höger
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
- geografico/1203568
- TOID
- 7000000000031903
- Topic's main category
- Category:Dumfries and Galloway
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 9744
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- y27kxext
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJjtcKkxTkdqbRtCQyWJjC
- Yale LUX ID
- place/a7651624-33e5-4753-b999-9cc44e3bdc5c
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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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- 4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
Contained subdivisions 264
People born here 28
← Category combines topics 6
← Shares border with 4
Instance of 2
← Depicts 2
Capital 1
Category for people born here 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
Has these parts 1
Historic county 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Owned entities 1
Owner of 1
People who died here 1
SNARC ID 1
Shares border with 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital of 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← FactGrid item ID 1
← Place of burial 1
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Summary
Dumfries and Galloway is a council area[1].
high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.
served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
evidence “The Scottish Government further says 20 of Scotland’s 32 council areas recorded an overall population decline in the most recent reporting year, with pressures highly visible in areas including Na h-Eileanan Siar, Shetland and Dumfries and Galloway.” thenational.scot · read source