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Highland

This article is about the Highland administrative region in Scotland. For other uses of the name see Highland (disambiguation).

Highland

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:	Charles Kennedy David Stewart 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 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

Places of Interest in Highland

See Scottish Highlands for more information.

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