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| Geography | |
| Area: - Total - % Water | Ranked 1st 25,659 km˛ ? % |
| Admin HQ: | Inverness |
| ISO 3166-2: | GB-HLD |
| ONS code: | 00QT |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( April 29, 2001) - Density | Ranked 8th 208,914 8 / km˛ |
| Politics | |
| Highland Council http://www.highland.gov.uk | |
| Control: | Independent |
| MPs: | Charles Kennedy David StewartDavid Stewart (Maryland), American (Maryland) politician David John Stewart, British politician. John Thurso |
| MSPsThe Scottish Parliament is composed of 129 Members (referred to as MSPs). 73 are elected from winner take all constituencies. 56 are elected in regions elected through the Additional Member System, a form of proportional representation. The regions used f: | Eleanor Scott Fergus EwingFergus Ewing born September 23, 1957 is a Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP. He is the son of veteran Scottish Nationalist Winnie Ewing (his father was also a SNP councillor) and has long been active in the SNP. He studied law at the University of Glasgow Jamie McGrigor Jamie Stone Jim MatherJim Mather was born on March 6, 1947. He was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent the Highlands and Islands at the 2003 and is a member of the Parliament's Finance Committee. He is the SNP's Shadow Enterprise and Economy Minister. He joined the John Farquhar MunroJohn Farquhar Munro born in Glen Shiel, 1934, is a Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament for Ross, Skye and Inverness West''. Previously a crofter and a local councillor for 33 years, he was first elected to the Scottish Parliament at the 199 Mary Scanlon Maureen MacMillan Peter Peacock Rob GibsonRob Gibson (born October 19, 1945) is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent Highlands and Islands at the 2003 election. Whilst attending the University of Dundee he hea |
Highland is the name of the largest administrative region in ScotlandScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p. It shares a border with Perth and Kinross, Moray and Argyll and Bute. These councils, and Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. It covers the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the traditional counties of Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, and Cromartyshire as well as all of Sutherland, Nairnshire and Caithness as well as the far north-west of Argyllshire.
The region was created in 1975, and had the districts Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh, Sutherland. In 1996 these district councils were wound up and their functions were transferred to Highland Council, making it a unitary authority.
These districts continue in use as areas for area committees.
Chief Urban Area: Inverness
Towns and Villages in Highland
Places of Interest in Highland
See Scottish Highlands for more information.
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