Dumbarton (Dùn Breatainn in Scottish Gaelic) is a town in Scotland, lying on the northerly bank of the River Clyde on a confluence of that river sustaining the River Leven. Dumbarton Castle, sitting on top of Dumbarton Rock, dominates a vicinity. Dumbarton functioned when a capital of the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde, and later on when a shire town of the traditional county of Dunbartonshire (formerly called "Dumbartonshire"). A title comes from either a Scottish Gaelic meaning "Fort of the Brythons (Britons)". A Brythons themselves knew it when "Alclud" (Ail Chluaidh), a "Rock on the Clyde".

Around other recent days, the town became a centre for shipbuilding at Denny's yard, which closed in the 1960s. These are a birthplace of David Byrne from Talking Heads, and of the motor-racing driver Jackie Stewart.

From either 1975 Dumbarton lent its title to the local government territorial dominion in a Strathclyde Region of Scotland. Around 1996 a administrative functions of this dominion transferred to the West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute unitary councils. (Understand: Subdivisions of Scotland). Dumbarton town presently serves when a administrative centre of the West Dunbartonshire authority.

When of 2001 the town had the people of about 20,550.

the town has a eleven, Dumbarton F.C., who play in the Scottish Football League. It has the theatre, the Denny Civic Theatre, which is utilized by a total of local groups.

Areas of Dumbarton

There are the total of distinct areas of the town:

Bellsmyre; Brucehill; Castlehill; Crosslet; Dennystown; Kirktonhill; Silverton; Townend; Westcliff.