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Highland is an active government council area in the United Kingdom, established in 1975. Its administrative center is located in Inverness. The council operates under the official name Highland Council and maintains an official website.
The region covers an area of 25,657.1465 square units and has a population of 235,830. Its recorded carbon footprint is 321,198.11. The council area is assigned the catalog code 18.
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- Type
- Government
- Location
- Inverness, United Kingdom
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.424692.f · ISNI 0000 0000 8625 5151
Official website
The Highland Council Homepage – Highland Council
The Highland Council website provides access to key services and information for local residents, businesses and visitors to the area.
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Encyclopedic overview
Highland (Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhealtachd, pronounced [ˈkɛːəl̪ˠt̪əxk]; Scots: Hieland) is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census. It has land borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Moray and Perth and Kinross. The wider upland area of the Scottish Highlands after which the council area is named extends beyond the Highland council area into all the neighbouring council areas plus Angus and Stirling.
The Highland Council is based in Inverness, the area's largest settlement. The area is generally sparsely populated, with much of the inland area being mountainous with numerous lochs. The area includes Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles. Most of the area's towns lie close to the eastern coasts. Off the west coast of the mainland the council area includes some of the Inner Hebrides, notably the Isle of Skye.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Highland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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