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Dumfries and Galloway
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unitary council area of Scotland
Key facts
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Country
- Scotland
- Lieutenancy areas
- Dumfries Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Wigtown
- Unitary authority
- 1 April 1996
- Administrative hq
- County Buildings, Dumfries
- Type
- Council
- Body
- Dumfries and Galloway Council
- Control
- No overall control
- Total
- 2,481 sq mi (6,426 km )
- Rank
- 3rd
- Density
- 60/sq mi (23/km )
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( BST )
- Iso 3166 code
- GB-DGY
- Gss code
- S12000006
- Website
- www .dumfriesandgalloway .gov .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Scottish region
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Scotland
- Capital
- Dumfries
- Population
- 149200
- Area
- 6426.8845
- Shares border with
- South Lanarkshire
- Official website
- www.dumgal.gov.uk
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- Commons category
- Dumfries and Galloway
- topic's main category
- Category:Dumfries and Galloway
- category for people born here
- Category:People from Dumfries and Galloway
- category of associated people
- Category:People associated with Dumfries and Galloway
- inception
- 1975-00-00
- owner of
- Stair Park
- catalog code
- 8
- carbon footprint
- 220021.95
- historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- P12749
- Johann Friedrich Höger
- native label
- Dumfries & Galloway
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Encyclopedic overview
Dumfries and Galloway (Scots: Dumfries an Gallowa; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, situated in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; the Scottish Borders to the northeast; and the English county of Cumbria, the Solway Firth, and the Irish Sea to the south. To the west, it faces the North Channel.
The administrative centre and largest settlement is the town of Dumfries. The second-largest town, Stranraer, lies approximately 76 miles (122 km) west of Dumfries on the North Channel coast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dumfries and Galloway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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