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Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area.
Stirling may also refer to:
Mathematics
- Stirling number
- Stirling's approximation, a formula to approximate large factorials.
Engineering
- Stirling engine, a type of heat engine
Geography
Scotland
- Stirling (council area)
- Stirling (Scottish Parliament constituency)
- Stirling (UK Parliament constituency)
- Stirling Sill, an outcropping or sill that underlies a large part of central Scotland
Australia
- City of Stirling, Perth
- Stirling, Western Australia, a Perth suburb within the City of Stirling
- Division of Stirling, electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives
- Stirling County, Western Australia
- Electoral district of Stirling, an electoral district in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
- Stirling Range, a mountain range in southern Western Australia
- Mount Stirling, Victoria
- Stirling, South Australia, a town east of Adelaide
- Stirling, Australian Capital Territory
- Stirling, Victoria, an abandoned township near Tambo Crossing
- Stirling Park, part of Stirling Linear Park, South Australia
Canada
- Stirling, Alberta, a village
- Stirling, a village in the township of Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario
New Zealand
- Stirling, New Zealand, a settlement
Solomon Islands
United States
- Stirling, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
- Stirling (Massaponax, Virginia), a historic plantation
Buildings
- Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland
- Stirling (Reading, Pennsylvania), a historic mansion
In the military
- Short Stirling, a Second World War British bomber aircraft
- Battle of Stirling (1648), in the Scottish Civil War
- HMAS Stirling, a Royal Australian Navy base
Schools
- University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
- Stirling High School, Stirling, Scotland
- Stirling High School, East London, England
- Stirling Theological College, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Stirling School, Stirling, Alberta, Canada, a public school
Transportation
- Stirling Highway, connecting Perth and Freemantle, Western Australia
- Stirling railway station, Scotland in Stirling
- Stirling railway station, Perth in Perth, Western Australia
- Stirling (NJT station), a New Jersey Transit station
- MCV Stirling, a bus body
Persons
- Stirling (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
- Stirling (given name), a list of people
- Clan Stirling, a Lowland Scottish clan
Other uses
- Earl of Stirling, an extinct title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Stirling baronets, various baronetcies
- Stirling Energy Systems, an American renewable energy company
- Stirling Iron Works, the first steel producer in the colony of New York
- Stirling Prize, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Peter Stirling, pen name of David Stern III, author of the Francis the Talking Mule stories, and the name of the Francis's human sidekick in all but one of the Francis films
See also
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