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Orkney Islands

archipelago, county and council area in northern Scotland
Place archipelago Q100166

Facts

28 properties
Instance of
archipelago, registration county, lieutenancy area of Scotland, Scottish islands area, shire of Scotland, historic county of the United Kingdom, council area[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Country
United Kingdom, Norway[3]
Official website
www.orkney.gov.uk[24]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 59.000°, -3.000°
Area
+990
Authority
Orkney Islands Council[23]
Capital
Kirkwall[11]
Carbon footprint
+29072.83, +27127.63
Catalog code
54, 24, ORN[19][20][21]
Coordinates of easternmost point
🗺️ 59.384°, -2.369°
Coordinates of northernmost point
🗺️ 59.399°, -2.388°
Coordinates of southernmost point
🗺️ 58.730°, -2.960°
Coordinates of westernmost point
🗺️ 58.877°, -3.436°
Demonym
orcadiani
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12[39][40][41][42][43]
Flag
flag of Orkney[12]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Orkney
Has part(s)
Mainland, Hoy, South Ronaldsay, Westray, Sanday[14][15][16][17][18]
Highest point
Ward Hill[22]
Historic county
Orkney Islands
Language used
Scots
Located in or next to body of water
North Sea[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Scotland[2]
Located in time zone
UTC±00:00[13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC±00:00 GeoNames Europe/London edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Native label
Arcaibh
Owner of
The Pickaquoy Centre
Partially coincident with
Orkney Islands[44]
Population
21k (19k–22k, n=19)[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]
🏷️ Also known as
en Orkneys en Orkney Is. en Orkney I. en the Orkneys en Orkney Islands en Orkney Isl. en Orkney ar جزر أوركني cs Orkady cs Orkadské ostrovy cs Orknejské ostrovy cs Orkneje da Orkney da Orknøerne da Orkney-øerne da Orkneyøerne da Ørkenøerne de Orkneyinseln de Orkaden de Orkney
🔖 Identifiers · 83
ISNI
0000000405151318
VIAF cluster ID
129015040
Library of Congress authority ID
n81071458
GND ID
4043881-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Orkney Islands by Sentinel-2.jpg ↗
AEDA geographic keyword ID
3295
Alvin ID
alvin-place:4862
ArchINFORM location ID
44059
Australian War Memorial ID
PL505525
BBC News topic ID
c7yjn8g6y78t
BBC Things ID
3801122d-c2e9-4a80-8250-09e62e7ae71b
BabelNet ID
00059535n
Show all 83 identifiers +71
Biblissima authority ID
Wikidata item
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
orkneyinseln
CANTIC ID
981058615043406706
Catholic Encyclopedia ID
11316c
Comic Vine ID
4020-55804
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Orkney_Islands/
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--41132
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
41731
EU Knowledge Graph item ID
Zebra acara
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Orkney-Islands
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
iles-orcades
FAST ID
1213949
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
UKV9
FactGrid item ID
Wikidata item
Freebase ID
/m/05nwr
GENUKI ID
sct/OKI
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2604716, -2604717
GSS code (2011)
S12000023
Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
counties/countyfirst20, councils/councilfirst30
GeoNames ID
2640923, 2640924
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
illes-orcades
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0047484
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Orknøyene
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2693646
HASC
GB.OR
Harper's tag
orkney, orkney-scotland
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
45536
INaturalist place ID
30472
ISO 3166-2 code
GB-ORK
Interlingual Index ID
i83759
KBpedia ID
Orkneys-Archipelago
Lex ID
Orkneyøerne
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Orknøyene
McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID
O/orkney-islands
MusicBrainz area ID
e66ff555-5b61-4820-9c1d-b388b7926a3d
NL CR AUT ID
ge322165
NUTS code
UKM65
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/388BC49E-6D92-4F89-B1CD-9D89740CCDBA
National Library of Brazil ID
000082898
National Library of Chile ID
000214113
National Library of Ireland ID
vtls001422427
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007566852305171
National Library of Latvia ID
000298949
National Library of Lithuania ID
LNB:V*10864;=BF
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3951796
Peakbagger area ID
31101
Pleiades ID
89261
Quora topic ID
Orkney-1
RKD thesaurus ID
33908
Related category
Category:Orkney-related lists
Ringgold ID
11498
SNARC ID
tantalum
SVKKL authority ID
0363312-Orkneje-Skotsko-souostrovi
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1203596
Subreddit
orkney
TOID
4000000074586652, 7000000000029961
Topic's main category
Category:Orkney
ToposText place ID
590000IOrc
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10045164
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
95225
Vikidia article ID
en:Orkney
Vision of Britain place ID
17294
Wellcome Collection concept ID
w9bakjnz
Who's on First ID
1125890341
WikiKids ID
Orkneyeilanden
Wikishire article ID
Orkney
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
08973602-n
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
14111320
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJxrVj3P6kWBVXWC6j3YT3
YSO ID
508151
Yale LUX ID
place/008b1587-9817-40f1-95f8-42ac12052eef

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 163
Kirkwall, Skara Brae, Scapa Flow, Stromness, Mainland, Hoy, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, HMS Royal Oak +155 more
← Historic county 158
Orkney Islands, Kirkwall, Skara Brae, Scapa Flow, Stromness, Mainland, Hoy, Heart of Neolithic Orkney +150 more
Has these parts 51
Mainland, Hoy, South Ronaldsay, Shapinsay, Westray, Eday, North Ronaldsay, Papa Westray +43 more
← Located in/on physical feature 29
Scapa Flow, Eday, Auskerry, Gairsay, Highland Park distillery, Hunda, Ness of Brodgar, Pentland Skerries +21 more
People born here 18
Thorfinn the Mighty, Sigurd the Stout, Thorfinn Turf-Einarsson, Alesoun Balfour, Amy Liptrot, Thomas Webster, Brusi Sigurdsson, Erlend Haraldsson +10 more
People who died here 10
Margaret, Maid of Norway, Maria Haraldsdotter, Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Thorfinn the Mighty, Thorfinn Turf-Einarsson, Brusi Sigurdsson, Einar Sigurdsson, Haakon Paulsson +2 more
← Category combines topics 8
Category:Islands of the Orkney Islands, Category:People from Orkney, Category:History of Orkney, Category:Populated places in Orkney, Category:Archaeological sites in Orkney, Category:Towns in Orkney, Category:Villages in Orkney, Category:Bishops of Orkney
Has part(s) 5
Mainland, Hoy, South Ronaldsay, Westray, Sanday
Instance of 4
archipelago, shire of Scotland, lieutenancy area of Scotland, council area
Belongs to 3
North Sea, British Isles, International Island Games Association
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
← Indigenous to 3
Scots, Norn, Orcadian
Located in this place 2
North Atlantic moist mixed forests, Unstan ware
← Applies to jurisdiction 2
flag of Orkney, Orkney Islands Council
← Depicts 2
Template:Location map Scotland Orkney, Module:Location map/data/Scotland Orkney
← Work location 2
Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney, Odo Reuter
Authority 1
Orkney Islands Council
Capital 1
Kirkwall
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Orkney
Country 1
United Kingdom
Flag 1
flag of Orkney
Highest point 1
Ward Hill
Historic county 1
Orkney Islands
Language used 1
Scots
Located in or next to body of water 1
North Sea
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Scotland
Located in time zone 1
UTC±00:00
Participated in 1
1985 Island Games
Residents 1
Elspeth Reoch
SNARC ID 1
tantalum
Topic's main category 1
Category:Orkney
← Capital of 1
Kirkwall
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Orkney
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Scotland
← Country of origin 1
Sea Mither
← Different from 1
Örkény
← FactGrid item ID 1
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand d'Aussy
← Main subject 1
Template:Country data Orkney
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Summary

Orkney Islands is an archipelago[1].

Related Entities

Margaret, Maid of Norway Scotland United Kingdom

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  1. 6d ago · Frodlekis · 2026-10-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Country: Norway"
  2. 6d ago · Frodlekis · 2026-10-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United Kingdom, Norway
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Country: Norway"
  3. 6d ago · Frodlekis · 2026-10-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'am', 'ang', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca',
    Sitelink count → 92
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Country: United Kingdom"
  4. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → orkney, orkney-scotland
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: orkney-scotland, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950955|orkney scotland (#289950955)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper'"
  5. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Wikidata item
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q28290, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  6. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → orkney, orkney-scotland
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: orkney, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950954|orkney (#289950954)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  7. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0363312-Orkneje-Skotsko-souostrovi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0363312-Orkneje-Skotsko-souostrovi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
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