Highland (Council Area)

Highland ( Scottish Gaelic Gàidhealtachd ) is one of 32 Council Areas in Scotland. The largest area of all Scottish counties adjacent to Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Argyll and Bute. It includes the traditional counties of Caithness, Cromartyshire, Inverness- shire, Nairnshire, Ross -shire, Sutherland and the northwestern part of Argyll. The County Highland comprises only a part of the geographic Highlands. From 1975 to 1996 was a Scottish Highland region.

History

The Highland region in 1975 formed from the counties of Caithness, Nairn, Sutherland, parts of the counties of Argyll and Moray and the mainland portion of the counties of Ross and Cromarty and Inverness -shire. The region was divided into eight districts:

  • Badenoch and Strathspey
  • Caithness
  • Inverness
  • Lochaber
  • Nairn
  • Ross and Cromarty
  • Skye and Lochalsh
  • Sutherland

In 1996, the regions and districts were abolished and replaced by unitary authorities in the course of administrative reform. In Scotland these are known as Council Areas, a total of 32 Council Areas in Scotland were founded. The eight districts of the Highland region were dissolved and formed from the entire region, the Council Area Highland.

Internally, the Highland Council Area is subdivided into a total of five Area Committees, some of which correspond to the previous District.

  • Caithness and Sutherland Area Committee
  • City of Inverness Area Committee
  • Lochaber Area Committee
  • Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey Area Committee
  • Skye, Ross and Cromarty Area Committee

Places

Attractions

Policy

The Highland Council has 80 seats, distributed as follows among the parties:

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