Highland
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- This article is about the Highland administrative region in Scotland. For other uses of the name see Highland (disambiguation).
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water | Ranked 1st 25,659 km² ? % |
| Admin HQ | Inverness |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-HLD |
| ONS code | 00QT |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density | Ranked 8th 208,914 8 / km² |
| Ethnicity | 99.7% White. |
| Politics | |
| Highland Council http://www.highland.gov.uk/ | |
| Control | Independent |
| MPs | Danny Alexander Charles Kennedy John Thurso |
| MSPs | Eleanor Scott Fergus Ewing Jamie McGrigor Jamie Stone Jim Mather John Farquhar Munro Mary Scanlon Maureen MacMillan Peter Peacock Rob Gibson |
Highland (a' Ghaidhealtachd in Gaelic) is the name of the largest administrative region in Scotland. It shares a border with Perth and Kinross, Moray and Argyll and Bute. These councils, and Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. It covers the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the traditional counties of Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, and Cromartyshire as well as all of Sutherland, Nairnshire and Caithness as well as the far north-west of Argyll.
The region was created in 1975, and had the districts Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh, Sutherland. In 1996 these district councils were wound up and their functions were transferred to Highland Council, making it a unitary authority.
These districts continue in use as areas for area committees.
Chief Urban Area: Inverness
Towns and villages in Highland
- Alness, Altnaharra, Aviemore
- Back of Keppoch, Ballachulish
- Cromarty
- Dalwhinnie, Dingwall, Dornoch, Durness
- Fort Augustus, Fortrose, Fort William
- Glencoe, Golspie
- Helmsdale
- Invergordon
- John o' Groats
- Kingussie, Kinlochbervie, Kinlochleven, Kyle of Lochalsh
- Mallaig
- Nairn, Newtonmore, North Ballachulish
- Plockton
- South Ballachulish
- Tain, Thurso, Tobermory, Tongue, Torridon
- Ullapool
- Wick
Places of interest in Highland
- Cairngorms National Park
- Castle Tioram
- Culloden Battlefield
- Fort George
- Glencoe Ski Centre
- Glenfinnan
- Glen Orchy
- Glen Spean
- Highland Folk Museum
- Loch Linnhe
- Loch Lochy
- Loch Ness
- Rannoch Moor
- Skibo Castle
- Tor Castle
- Urquhart Castle
- West Highland Way
See Scottish Highlands for more information.
