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Interesting stuff about Scotland. Historical subdivisions of Scotland
include the mormaerdom, stewartry, earldom, burgh, parish, county
and regions and districts. The names of these areas are still
sometimes used as geographical descriptors.
Modern Scotland is subdivided in various ways depending on the
purpose. For local government, there have been 32 council areas
since 1996, whose councils are unitary authorities responsible for
the provision of all local government services. Community councils
are informal organisations that represent specific sub-divisions of
a council area.
For the Scottish Parliament, there are 73 constituencies and eight
regions. For the Parliament of the United Kingdom there are 59
constituencies. The Scottish fire brigades and police forces are
still based on the system of regions introduced in 1975. For
healthcare and postal districts, and a number of other governmental
and non-governmental organisations such as the churches, there are
other long-standing methods of subdividing Scotland for the purposes
of administration.
City status in the United Kingdom is determined by letters patent.
There are six cities in Scotland: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh,
Glasgow and more recently Inverness, and Stirling.
The main land of Scotland comprises the northern third of the land
mass of the island of Great Britain, which lies off the northwest
coast of Continental Europe. The total area is 78,772 km˛ (30,414 sq
mi). Scotland's only land border is with England, and runs for 96
kilometres (60 mi) between the basin of the River Tweed on the east
coast and the Solway Firth in the west. The Atlantic Ocean borders
the west coast and the North Sea is to the east. The island of
Ireland lies only 30 kilometres (20 mi) from the southwestern
peninsula of Kintyre; Norway is 305 kilometres (190 mi) to the east
and the Faroes, 270 kilometres (168 mi) to the north.
The territorial extent of Scotland is generally that established by
the 1237 Treaty of York between Scotland and England and the 1266
Treaty of Perth between Scotland and Norway. Important exceptions
include the Isle of Man, which having been lost to England in the
14th century is now a crown dependency outside of the United
Kingdom; the island groups Orkney and Shetland, which were acquired
from Norway in 1472; and Berwick-upon-Tweed, lost to England in
1482.
The geographical centre of Scotland lies a few miles from the
village of Newtonmore in Badenoch. Rising to 1,344 metres (4,406 ft)
above sea level, Scotland's highest point is the summit of Ben
Nevis, in Lochaber, while Scotland's longest river, the River Tay,
flows for a distance of 190 km (120 miles).
The population of Scotland in the 2001 census was 5,062,011. This
has risen to 5,116,900 according to June 2006 estimates. This would
make Scotland the 112th largest country by population if it were a
sovereign state. Although Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland it is
not the largest city. With a population of just over 600,000 this
honour falls to Glasgow. Indeed, the Greater Glasgow conurbation,
with a population of over 1.1 million, is home to over a fifth of
Scotland's population.
The Central Belt is where most of the main towns and cities are
located. Glasgow is to the west whilst the other three main cities
of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee lie on the east coast. The
Highlands are sparsely populated, although the city of Inverness has
experienced rapid growth in recent years. In general only the more
accessible and larger islands retain human populations and fewer
than 90 are currently inhabited. The Southern Uplands are
essentially rural in nature and dominated by agriculture and
forestry. Because of housing problems in Glasgow and Edinburgh, five
new towns were created between 1947 and 1966. They are East
Kilbride, Glenrothes, Livingston, Cumbernauld, and Irvine.
Due to immigration since World War II, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee
have small Asian communities. Since the recent Enlargement of the
European Union there has been an increased number of people from
Central and Eastern Europe moving to Scotland, and it is estimated
that between 40,000 and 50,000 Poles are now living in the
country.[97] As of 2001, there are 16,310 ethnic Chinese residents
in Scotland. The ethnic groups within Scotland are as follows: White
- 97.99%,South Asian - 1.09%, Black - 0.16%, Mixed - 0.25%, Chinese
- 0.32% and Other - 0.19%.
Scotland has three officially recognised languages: English, Scots
and Scottish Gaelic. Almost all Scots speak Scottish Standard
English, and in 1996 the General Register Office for Scotland
estimated that 30% of the population are fluent in Scots. Gaelic is
mostly spoken in the Western Isles, where a majority of people still
speak it; however, nationally its use is confined to just 1% of the
population. |
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