Council area (Scotland)

A council area in Scotland is an area made for local government. Every council area has an elected council.

These areas were first made in 1996 by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. The Act calls them local authority areas but most people call them council areas. There are 32 council areas in Scotland.

MAINLAND Area (sq miles) Area (km²) Number of people (2001) How many per km² City of Aberdeen 70 182 212,125 1164 Aberdeenshire 2439 6317 226,871 36 Angus 843 2184 108,400 50 Argyll and Bute 2712 7023 91,306 13 Clackmannanshire 61 158 48,077 304 Dumfries and Galloway 2489 6446 147,765 23 Dundee 21 55 145,663 2648 East Ayrshire 492 1275 120,235 94 East Dunbartonshire 68 176 108,243 617 East Lothian 257 666 90,088 135 East Renfrewshire 65 168 89,311 532 City of Edinburgh 100 260 448,624 1725 Falkirk 113 293 145,191 496 Fife 517 1340 349,429 261 City of Glasgow 68 175 577,869 3307 Highland 10,085 26,119 208,914 8 Inverclyde 64 167 84,203 503 Midlothian 135 350 80,941 231 Moray 864 2237 86,940 39 North Ayrshire 343 888 135,817 153 North Lanarkshire 184 476 321,067 674 Perth and Kinross 2083 5395 134,949 25 Renfrewshire 102 263 172,867 659 Scottish Borders 1825 4727 106,764 23 South Ayrshire 475 1230 112,097 93 South Lanarkshire 686 1778 302,216 170 Stirling 866 2243 86,212 38 West Dunbartonshire 68 176 93,378 531 West Lothian 165 427 158,714 372 MAINLAND ALL TOGETHER 28,260 73,193 4,994,276 68 ISLANDS         Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) 1185 3070 26,502 9 Orkney Islands 396 1025 19,245 19 Shetland Islands 568 1471 21,988 15 ISLANDS ALL TOGETHER 2149 5566 67,735 12 SCOTLAND ALL TOGETHER 30,409 78,759 5,062,011 64