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The nine Regions of Scotland were established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as the uppermost tier of local government in Scotland. They bore no relation at all to the former administrative counties that had been used since 1889. Each region was divided into a number of districts, varying from three to nineteen.

The regions were based closely on the system proposed by the Wheatley Report produced by a Royal Commission into Scottish local government, in 1969.

The regions of Scotland were abolished on April 1, 1996 and replaced with the current unitary council areas of Scotland. Some of the specific regions were broken up into many council areas - others were retained as a single council area.

Apart from the Regions, there were three Island Councils, covering Shetland, Orkney, and the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides).

  1. Strathclyde
  2. Dumfries and Galloway
  3. Borders
  4. Lothian
  5. CentralMap of Scotland showing the location ''of the former Central region Regional Council Central was a local government region of Scotland from 1974 to 1995. It is now divided into the council areas of Falkirk, Stirling, and Clackmannanshire, which had previo
  6. FifeThis article is about the area in Scotland. For other uses, see Fife (disambiguation). Fife is a unitary council region of Scotland situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. It was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms and is still known
  7. TaysideTayside was a local government region of Scotland from 1974 to 1995. It is now divided into the council areas of Perth and Kinross, Angus, and the City of Dundee, which had previously been the regions districts. Regions of Scotland.
  8. GrampianGrampian was a local government region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. It is now divided into the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, and the City of Aberdeen. Whilst it existed it had several districts under it Aberdeen, Banff and Buchan, Gordon, Kinca
  9. HighlandThis article is about the Highland administrative region in Scotland. For other uses of the name see Highland (disambiguation). Highland is the name of the largest administrative region in Scotland. It shares a border with Perth and Kinross, Moray and Arg


District Region
AberdeenCity of Aberdeen is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. It includes the communities of Bridge of Don, Cove Bay, Cults, Dyce, Peterculter et al. as well as Aberdeen itself. It is surrounded on all sides by the county region of Aberdeenshire. Grampian
Angus Tayside
Annandale and Eskdale Dumfries and Galloway
Argyll and Bute Strathclyde
Badenoch and Strathspey Highland
Banff and Buchan Grampian
Bearsden and Milngavie Strathclyde
Berwickshire Borders
Caithness Highland
Clackmannan Central
Clydebank Strathclyde
Clydesdale Strathclyde
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Strathclyde
Cumnock and Doon Valley Strathclyde
Cunninghame Strathclyde
Dumbarton Strathclyde
Dundee Tayside
Dunfermline Fife
East Kilbride Strathclyde
East Lothian Lothian
Eastwood Strathclyde
Edinburgh Lothian
Ettrick and Lauderdale Borders
Falkirk Central
Glasgow Strathclyde
Gordon Grampian
Hamilton Strathclyde
Inverclyde Strathclyde
Inverness Highland
Kilmarnock and Loudoun Strathclyde
Kincardine and Deeside Grampian
Kirkcaldy Fife
Kyle and Carrick Strathclyde
Lochaber Highland
Midlothian Lothian
Monklands Strathclyde
Moray Grampian
Motherwell Strathclyde
Nairn Highland
Nithsdale Dumfries and Galloway
North-East Fife Fife
Orkney Islands
Perth and Kinross Tayside
Renfrew Strathclyde
Ross and Cromarty Highland
Roxburgh Borders
Shetland Islands
Skye and Lochalsh Highland
Stewartry Dumfries and Galloway
Stirling Central
Strathkelvin Strathclyde
Sutherland Highland
Tweeddale Borders
Western Isles
West Lothian Lothian
Wigtown Dumfries and Galloway


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