Blantyre, South Lanarkshire
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Blantyre (listenⓘ or listenⓘ; 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.
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Blantyre
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 Shuttle Row, the birthplace of David Livingstone | |
  Blantyre Location within South Lanarkshire | |
| Population | 16,800 (mid-2020 est.)[3] |
| OS grid reference | NS685575 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Glasgow [4] |
| Postcode district | G72 |
| Dialling code | 01698 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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| 55°47′37″N 04°05′31″W | |
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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.