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Fife, Scotland

Fife
Fife
Fìobha
Fife in Scotland.svg
Coat of arms of FifeFifeFìobha
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°W / 56.25000; -3.20000Coordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°W / 56.25000; -3.20000
Admin HQ Glenrothes
(formerly Cupar)
Government
 • Body Fife Council
 • Control Labour minority (council NOC)
 • MPs Douglas Chapman
Stephen Gethins
Peter Grant
Roger Mullin
 • MSPs Annabelle Ewing
Jenny Gilruth
Willie Rennie
Shirley-Anne Somerville
David Torrance
Area
 • Total 512 sq mi (1,325 km2)
Area rank Ranked 13th
Population (mid-2015 est.)
 • Total 368,100
 • Rank Ranked 3rd
 • Density 720/sq mi (277/km2)
ONS code S12000015
ISO 3166 code GB-FIF
Website http://www.fife.gov.uk/

Fife ([ˈfəif]; Scottish Gaelic: Fìobha) is a council area and historic county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. By custom it is widely held to have been one of the major Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland.

It is a lieutenancy area, and was a county of Scotland until 1975. It was very occasionally known by the anglicisation Fifeshire in old documents and maps compiled by English cartographers and authors. A person from Fife is known as a Fifer.

Fife was a local government region divided into three districts: Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and North-East Fife. Since 1996 the functions of the district councils have been exercised by the unitary Fife Council.


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