Highland
(This article is about the "Highland" administrative region in Scotland. For other uses of the name see Highland (disambiguation).)
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"Highland" is the name of the largest administrative region in Scotland. It shares a border with the administrative regions 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. It should be noted that the term "Highland" is most frequently used to refer to the Scottish Highlands in their broad, geographical sense, and not to this particular administrative area, the latter being named after the former but by no means fully encompassing it. The administrative area covers the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the traditional counties of Inverness-shire (and parts of Elginshire), Ross-shire, and Cromartyshire as well as all of Sutherland, Nairnshire and Caithness as well as the far north-west of Argyllshire.
The administrative 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.
Chief Urban Area: Inverness
Towns and Villages in the "Highland" administrative region
- Back of Keppoch, Ballachulish
- Cromarty
- Dalwhinnie, Dornoch
- Fortrose, Fort William
- Glencoe, Golspie
- Helmsdale
- Invergordon
- John o' Groats
- Kingussie, Kinlochleven, Kyle of Lochalsh
- Mallaig
- Newtonmore, North Ballachulish
- Plockton
- South Ballachulish
- Tobermory, Tongue
- Ullapool
- Castle Tioram
- Glencoe Ski Centre
- Glen Orchy
- Glen Spean
- Loch Linnhe
- Loch Lochy
- Rannoch Moor
- Tor Castle
- West Highland Way