Highland Council area

:This article is about the Highland administrative region in Scotland. For other uses of the name see highland (disambiguation).

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The Highland Council area (Roinn na Gàidhealtachd{{mn|afgh|1}} in Gaelic) is the largest administrative region in Scotland. It shares a border with the adjoining Unitary Authorities of 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.

Related Topics:
Gaelic - Scotland - Unitary Authorities - Perth and Kinross - Moray - Argyll and Bute - Angus - Stirling - Scottish Highlands

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The council area covers most of 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 Argyll.

Related Topics:
Traditional counties - Inverness-shire - Ross-shire - Cromartyshire - Sutherland - Nairnshire - Caithness - Argyll

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The original area was created as a region 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 the Highland Council, making it a unitary authority. To many people within the area using the name "Highland" as a noun sounds wrong, so people tend to speak either of the Highlands, or use the traditional counties (e.g. Ross-shire), or if they need to refer specifically to the area covered by the council, they say "the Highland Council area". Such a phrase, for instance, as "Dingwall in Highland", sounds very strange and is not idiomatic usage.

Related Topics:
1975 - Badenoch and Strathspey - Caithness - Inverness - Lochaber - Nairn - Ross and Cromarty - Skye and Lochalsh - Sutherland - 1996 - Highland Council - Unitary authority - Highlands - Traditional counties - Ross-shire - Dingwall - Highland - Idiomatic usage

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These districts continue in use as areas for area committees.

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The Unitary Authority's chief urban area is Inverness.

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