Back بلانتایر AZB Blantyre, De Swydd Lanark Welsh Blantyre (South Lanarkshire) German Blantyre (Hegoaldeko Lanarkshire) Basque بلانتایر Persian Blantyre (Écosse) French Baile an t-Saoir Irish Blantaidhr Scots/Gaelic Blantyre (Scozia) Italian 블랜타이어 (스코틀랜드) Korean
Blantyre
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 Shuttle Row, the birthplace of David Livingstone | |
  Blantyre Location within South Lanarkshire | |
| Population | 16,800 (2020)[3] |
| OS grid reference | NS685575 |
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| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Glasgow [4] |
| Postcode district | G72 |
| Dialling code | 01698 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Blantyre ( or ; Scottish Gaelic: Blantaidhr[5][6]) is a town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, with a population of 16,900.[7] It is bounded by the River Clyde to the north, the Rotten Calder to the west, the Park Burn to the east (denoting the boundary with the larger adjoining town of Hamilton) and the Rotten Burn to the south.
Blantyre was the birthplace of David Livingstone, the 19th-century explorer and missionary, and because of Livingstone's work, the second-largest city in Malawi is named after it.
- ^ "List of Scottish Gaelic place-names". Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (AÀA). Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ "List of Scottish Gaelic train station names". Scotrail. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "List of UK post towns". Evox Facilities. Archived from the original on 18 June 2000. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "List of Scottish Gaelic place-names". Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (AÀA). Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ "List of Scottish Gaelic train station names". Scotrail. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ "Mid-2016 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019.