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Dumfriesshire

historic county of Scotland
Administrative Area Shire Of Scotland Q1247384

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
shire of Scotland, registration county, historic county of the United Kingdom, lieutenancy area of Scotland[4][5][6]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 55.069°, -3.608°, 🗺️ 55.150°, -3.400°[17][18]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland[2]
Shares border with
Cumberland, Kirkcudbrightshire, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Population and size

Population
+77120[19]
More facts +4
Capital
Dumfries[7]
Catalog code
DMF[16]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20][21][22]
Said to be the same as
Dumfries[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en County of Dumfries en Dumfries en Dumfriesshire fa دام فرایشایر it Contea di Dumfries ja ダムフリーシャー ja ダムフリーズシャー ja ダンフリーズシャー ko 덤프리스 ko 덤프리스셔 ko 덤프리스주 ru Дамфрисшир zh 鄧弗里斯郡
🔖 Identifiers · 20
VIAF cluster ID
133744819
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n84175427
GND ID
4308105-8
BBC Things ID
1d6ca1c4-bae8-48e0-8e94-6ca39f902845
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Dumfriesshire
FAST ID
1229983
FactGrid item ID
Eilema caniola
Freebase ID
/m/028x0v
GENUKI ID
sct/DFS
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2594816
Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
counties/countyfirst10
GeoNames ID
2650795
Show all 20 identifiers +8
J9U entity ID
987007555374205171
National Library of Ireland ID
vtls001157237
SNARC ID
Ahlen
Topic's main category
Category:Dumfriesshire
Vision of Britain place ID
17452
Wellcome Collection concept ID
swp5x7w9
Wikishire article ID
Dumfriesshire
Yale LUX ID
place/ed36a05a-9882-4cf2-b4b1-621d651fe686
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 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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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
← Historic county 102
Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Lockerbie, Solway Firth, Southern Uplands, Annan, Gretna, Gretna Green +94 more
Contained subdivisions 8
Dumfries, Lockerbie, Annan, Langholm, Lochmaben, Moffat, Sanquhar, Moniaive
Shares border with 7
Cumberland, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Selkirkshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Roxburghshire, Peeblesshire
← Shares border with 7
Cumberland, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Selkirkshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Roxburghshire, Peeblesshire
People born here 5
Johannes de Sacrobosco, John Malcolm, James B. Beck, Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan, John Welsh
← Headquarters location 4
Douglas Rovers F.C., Douglas Wanderers F.C., Moffat F.C., Thornhill F.C.
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Instance of 2
shire of Scotland, lieutenancy area of Scotland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway
Capital 1
Dumfries
Country 1
United Kingdom
FactGrid item ID 1
Eilema caniola
Located in this place 1
Quintinshill rail disaster
SNARC ID 1
Ahlen
Topic's main category 1
Category:Dumfriesshire
← Capital of 1
Dumfries
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Dumfriesshire
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Summary

Dumfriesshire is a shire of Scotland[1].

Related Entities

Scotland United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → Dumfries
    Capital → Dumfries
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Dumfriesshire
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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