Aberdeen — Local services in Aberdeen City

The city of Aberdeen sits on the north east coast of Scotland. Aberdeen is famous for its sparkling, granite buildings and monuments, the central beach, dolphins and the warming tones of 'Doric', the local Scots dialect you'll hear in the streets.

Aberdeen is the third most populous Scottish city. Historically, Aberdeen was within the historic county of Aberdeenshire, but is now separate from the council area of Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and has a population of 198,590 (mid-2020 est.) for the urban area, making it the United Kingdom's 39th most populous built-up area, and 224,190 (2022) for the wider council area including outlying localities. Aberdeen has a long, sandy coastline and features an oceanic climate, with cool summers and mild, rainy winters.

Aberdeen received royal burgh status from David I of Scotland (1124–1153), which transformed the city economically. The traditional industries of fishing, paper-making, shipbuilding, and textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport. Aberdeen Heliport is one of the busiest commercial heliports in the world, and the seaport is the largest in the north-east part of Scotland. A university town, the city is known for the University of Aberdeen, founded in 1495 as the fifth oldest university in the English-speaking world and located in Old Aberdeen.

During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, which may sparkle like silver because of its high mica content. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in 1969, Aberdeen has been known as the offshore oil capital of Europe. Based upon the discovery of prehistoric villages around the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don, the area around Aberdeen is thought to have been settled for at least...

Aberdeen was brilliant really has a nice time. People were amazingly friendly, and helpful. The Art Gallery was for me the best,museum I have been to for a long time. Plenty of space for exhibits and brilliant staff. The place has 3 floors plus 2 outdoor vantage points. A few cafés, with nice food at reasonable prices. A lot of the items were videos, but were still interesting, considering. I was disappointed by the lack of statues, but the paintings were really exquisite. The shop was a bit of a let down, as I didn't see anything I wanted to buy There's a lift system to all floors, and toilets on each floor, which were very clean. The seating in the various galleries was a bit sparse but OK. There's nobody rushing you and staff are very knowledgeable, and accommodating, so don't be afraid to ask questions. The place is near the Bon Accord Centre, and next door, is The Robert Gordon Elite School. Union Street is long with all kinds of shops, and restaurants. There's also a large building site, which seems a bit of a mystery to most Aberdonians as nobody I asked knew what they were building. The travel centre has coach at on end ànd at the other, is the railway station which at the moment is like a war zone In-between is a fantastic spacious shopping centre, with hotel, cinema and 2 floors of shoes restaurants and fashion. If I enjoyed it then Aberdeen is a must place to visit, a bit like some cities ,there's shops vacant, and vandalised, but don't let that put you off. I stayed ,in a beautiful guest house, called ,The Jewel, it's new ,...

So I'm a rail enthusiast and i'm autistic so me and my friend went to Aberdeen from Glasgow we used the bus as its cheaper and we got to the station and told the people at the gates we would be taking pictures of trains and the staff at the gate were fine with it about half an hour later I went up to the staff to ask why the train was delayed on route there was a train with its door open (Yes we are still in the days where trains doors are manual and we have to lean out them to open the door) so I shut it and one of the staff was chill just asking if I could keep it open and I said sure then there was a member of platform staff who screamed in my face to get off "her" platform" and that I shouldn't touch "Her" Doors mind you this was an LNER train and she was scotrail staff she was till screaming in my face where I then asked for a supervisor who came down and did not deal with the member of staff at all he said we could stay and that was all I then told him Id like to place a formal complaint He then told me If I want to put a complaint in Id be asked to leave the station witch I have confirmed is not aloud.after this train left we decided to leave (I left with tears in my eyes and only one staff member asked if I was ok) I have been to Aberdeen station before and the staff were lovely clearly scotrail put the worst staff...