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Aberdeen Leasing

Did You Know?

Aberdeen is a port city in northeast Scotland, where the Dee and Don rivers meet the North Sea. With an offshore petroleum industry, the city is home to an international population. It's also known as the ‘Granite City’ for its many enduring grey-stone buildings.

Aberdeen is one of the oldest cities in the UK, a huge urban centre in Scotland and a key piece of the UK’s national infrastructure, but a lot of people don’t realise how truly interesting and unique “The Silver City” really is.

First things first, how likely are you to win the lottery while there? The answer is “surprisingly likely” – Aberdeen has had more than 40 lottery millionaires, making it one of the luckiest cities in the entirety of the UK. If you’re a lottery player, you never know what life in Aberdeen might bring!

Aberdeen has repeatedly been rated the safest city in the UK by personal financial firm Provident, using a survey of UK residents which took the Granite City to the top of the polls for safety. Other surveys and studies have consistently placed Aberdeen as the safest city in Scotland and among the top safest cities in the UK – so the safety-conscious student should definitely consider this gorgeous Scottish seaside city when looking at University places.

Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed two common nicknames for Aberdeen above – “The Silver City” and “The Granite City”. These nicknames both come from the stunning stone that the city is largely made up of – locally-quarried granite was used to build many of Aberdeen’s most famous buildings.

There are 17 whiskey distilleries in Aberdeen, and most of them are open to the public, so if you’re looking for a great day out, a trip around one of those distilleries is sure to be a fascinating and entertaining way to learn more about the history of the city and its culture.

Aberdeen, based on the Northeast Coast of Scotland, is home to one of the biggest working docks in the country – but this doesn’t scare off the wildlife. From the incredible viewing spots all around the waterfront, bottlenose and white-beaked dolphins can be seen leaping, playing and scouting for fish.

Another spectacular natural sight in the waters off Aberdeen are the basking sharks – gentle giants who sift plankton out of the water. These slow-moving grazers are the second-largest sharks in the world – they’re around the length of a school bus!

One of the reasons for Aberdeen’s growth and prosperity over the years has been North Sea oil – Scotland’s oil and natural gas refineries were a boom industry just off the coast by Aberdeen for decades, and they’re still in full swing today. Extracting one of the most valuable resources of the 20th– and 21st-centuries made Aberdeen the place to be in UK energy for many years, and it was once called “The Energy Capital of Europe”. 

Believe it or not, there are more than SEVENTY golf courses within an hour’s travel of Aberdeen Airport. The environment is perfect for them, with incredible views and stunning natural scenery, so if you’re interested in golf (or if you’re doing a degree in travel and tourism) be sure to check them out!

Aberdeen is home to The Press and Journal, a print newspaper serving Northern and Highland Scotland, which was first started in 1747 and has been running ever since! That’s the sort of unbroken line into the past that you can only get in a city like Aberdeen, and it’s incredible that the paper is still in print.jams.