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Highland Council Area

Highland
A' Ghàidhealtachd  (Scottish Gaelic)
Hieland  (Scots)
Highland in Scotland.svg
Flag of HighlandA' Ghàidhealtachd  (Scottish Gaelic)Hieland  (Scots)
Flag
Coat of arms of HighlandA' Ghàidhealtachd  (Scottish Gaelic)Hieland  (Scots)
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 57°30′N 5°00′W / 57.500°N 5.000°W / 57.500; -5.000Coordinates: 57°30′N 5°00′W / 57.500°N 5.000°W / 57.500; -5.000
Admin HQ Inverness
Government
 • Body The Highland Council
www.highland.gov.uk
(Comhairle na Gaidhealtachd
www.gaidhealtachd.gov.uk)
 • Control SNP + LD + Lab (council NOC)
 • MPs
 • MSPs
Area
 • Total 9,906 sq mi (25,657 km2)
Area rank Ranked 1st
Population (mid-2015 est.)
 • Total 234,100
 • Rank Ranked 7th
 • Density 20/sq mi (9/km2)
ONS code S12000017
ISO 3166 code GB-HLD

Highland (Scottish Gaelic: A' Ghàidhealtachd; pronounced [kɛːəlˠ̪t̪əxk]) is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom. It shares borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Moray and Perth and Kinross. Their councils, and those of Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. The Highland area covers most of the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the historic counties of Inverness-shire and Ross and Cromarty, all of Caithness, Nairnshire and Sutherland and small parts of Argyll and Moray.

According to the 2011 UK census, there are nearly 12,000 Scottish Gaelic speakers in the Highland area.

In 1975, the area was created as a two-tier region, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, with an elected council for the whole region and, in addition, elected councils for each of eight districts, Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh and Sutherland. The act also abolished county and burgh councils.


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