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Highland ( Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhealtachd, pronounced [ˈkɛːəl̪ˠt̪əxk]; [a] Scots: Hieland) is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census.
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The Highland Council (Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkʰõ.ərˠʎə nə ˈkɛːəl̪ˠt̪əxk]), the political body covering the Highland local authority created in 1995, comprises 21 wards, each electing three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system, which creates a form of proportional ...
- Derek Brown, since 22 June 2023
- Raymond Bremner, SNP, since 26 May 2022
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Highland is one of the 32 unitary council areas into which Scotland has been divided since 1996. In terms of size, Highland is the largest council area in Scotland, covering 10,085 square miles or 26,484 square kilometers. This makes it around four times the size of the next-largest council area.
Highland council area Shown as one of the council areas of Scotland The politics of the Highland council area in Scotland are evident in the deliberations and decisions of the Highland Council, in elections to the council, and in elections to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ( Westminster ) and the Scottish ...
Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census. It shares borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Moray and Perth and Kinross.
The Highland (council area) is a local government region in north Scotland. It covers most of the area which people call the Scottish Highlands
History. In 1975, the area was created as a two-tier region, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, with an elected council for the whole region and, in addition, elected councils for each of eight districts, Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh and Sutherland. [3] .
