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River Tay
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river in Perth and Kinross, and Stirling, Scotland, UK, flows into the North Sea at the Firth of Tay
Key facts
- Country
- Scotland
- State
- United Kingdom
- Source
- Allt Coire Laoigh
- Location
- Ben Lui , Stirling council area / Argyll and Bute , Scotland
- Coordinates
- 56°23′07″N 4°47′36″W / 56.38528°N 4.79333°W / 56.38528; -4.79333
- Elevation
- 720 m (2,360 ft)
- Mouth
- Firth of Tay , North Sea
- Length
- 193 km (120 mi)
- Basin size
- 4,970 km (1,920 sq mi)
- Average
- 220 m /s (7,800 cu ft/s)
- Left
- River Lyon , River Tummel , River Isla
- Right
- River Almond , River Earn , River Braan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Perth and Kinross
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- St. Matthew's Church and Smeaton's Bridge.jpg
- Length
- 193
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- Commons category
- River Tay
- mouth of the watercourse
- Firth of Tay
- topic's main category
- Category:River Tay
- watershed area
- 6216
- lake on watercourse
- Loch Tay
- discharge
- 170.0
- tributary
- River Lyon
- historic county
- Perthshire
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Encyclopedic overview
The River Tay (Scottish Gaelic: Tatha, IPA: [ˈt̪ʰa.ə]; probably from the conjectured Brythonic Tausa, possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing') is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in Great Britain. The Tay originates in western Scotland on the slopes of Ben Lui (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Laoigh), then flows easterly across the Highlands, through Loch Dochart, Loch Iubhair and Loch Tay, then continues east through Strathtay (see Strath), in the centre of Scotland, then southeasterly through Perth, where it becomes tidal, to its mouth at the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee. It is the largest river in the United Kingdom by measured discharge. Its catchment is approximately 2,000 square miles (5,200 square kilometres), the Tweed's is 1,500 sq mi (3,900 km) and the Spey's is 1,097 sq mi (2,840 km).
Course
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “River Tay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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