Aviemore
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Aviemore (; ) is a town and tourist resort, situated within the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area, within the Highland council area. The town is popular for skiing and other winter sports, and for hill-walking in the Cairngorm Mountains.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.type
- Town
- UK place.official_name
- Aviemore
- UK place.gaelic_name
- An Aghaidh Mhòr
- UK place.static_image
- Main street, Aviemore - geograph.org.uk - 1771572.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 250px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- A view of Aviemore main street, 2010
- UK place.language
- EnglishScottish Gaelic
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Highland
- UK place.map_type
- Badenoch and Strathspey
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
- UK place.post_town
- Aviemore
- UK place.postcode_district
- PH22
- UK place.postcode_area
- PH
- UK place.dial_code
- 01479
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NH898129
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ski resort
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Highland
- Population
- 3240
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Aviemore view.jpg
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- Commons category
- Aviemore
- OS grid reference
- NH898129
- located in protected area
- Cairngorms National Park
- historic county
- Inverness-shire
- associated electoral district
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey
- postal code
- PH22 1
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Aviemore (; ) is a town and tourist resort, situated within the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area, within the Highland council area. The town is popular for skiing and other winter sports, and for hill-walking in the Cairngorm Mountains.
== Etymology == Aviemore represents the Gaelic form . may be Pictish and involve an element equivalent to Welsh meaning "cleft".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aviemore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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