Scotland’s third largest city, Aberdeen, is often called the ‘Granite City’, due to many buildings in the town having been built from locally quarried stone. As a coastal city, Aberdeen has two miles of sandy beaches, and the many intere

The main industry in Aberdeen is oil. Relatively new to the area (it has been developed since 1970), it now employs many of the area’s residents, as do the distilling and paper-making industries, and farming.