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North Lanarkshire

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North Lanarkshire

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council area in Scotland

Key facts

Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Country
Scotland
Lieutenancy area
Lanarkshire (part) Dunbartonshire (part)
Unitary authority
1 April 1996
Administrative hq
Motherwell Civic Centre
Type
Council
Body
North Lanarkshire Council
Control
No overall control
Mps
4 MPs Frank McNally ( L ) Pamela Nash ( L ) Kenneth Stevenson ( L ) Katrina Murray ( L )
Msps
5 MSPs Jamie Hepburn ( SNP ) Stephanie Callaghan ( SNP ) Clare Adamson ( SNP ) Fulton MacGregor ( SNP ) Neil Gray ( SNP )
Total
180 sq mi (470 km )
Rank
19th
Density
1,900/sq mi (733/km )
Time zone
UTC+0 ( GMT )
Summer dst
UTC+1 ( BST )
Iso 3166 code
GB-NLK
Gss code
S12000050
Website
northlanarkshire .gov .uk

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
council area
Located in
Scotland
Capital
Motherwell
Population
322520
Area
469.9094
Shares border with
South Lanarkshire
Official website
www.northlan.gov.uk
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catalog code
23
native label
Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath
Commons category
North Lanarkshire
topic's main category
Category:North Lanarkshire
twinned administrative body
Schweinfurt
category for people born here
Category:Births in North Lanarkshire
category of associated people
Category:People from North Lanarkshire
carbon footprint
406736.57
historic county
Lanarkshire
inception
1996-04-01
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Encyclopedic overview

North Lanarkshire (Scots: North Lanrikshire; Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the north-east of the Glasgow City council area and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs, commuter towns, and villages. It also borders East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Stirling, South Lanarkshire, and West Lothian. The council area covers parts of the historic counties of Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, and Stirlingshire. The council is based in Motherwell.

The area was formed in 1996, covering the districts of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Motherwell, and Monklands, plus the Chryston and Auchinloch areas from Strathkelvin district, all of which had been in the Strathclyde region between 1975 and 1996. As a new single-tier authority, North Lanarkshire became responsible for all functions previously performed by both the regional council and the district councils, which were abolished.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “North Lanarkshire” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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