Council areas of Scotland
Scotland top-level administrative subdivision (since 1996)
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A council area in Scotland is an area made for local government. There is a total of 32 council areas in Scotland. They are all governed by unitary authorities called "councils". The council areas were created on 1 April 1996, under the provisions of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. The Act calls them local authority areas but most people call them council areas.
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The council areas have the option of being known as a comhairle when choosing to go by a Gaelic name. However, only Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar (Council of the Western Isles) has chosen this option, while the Highland Council (Comhairle na Gaidhealtachd) uses both an English name and a Gaelic name.[1]
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References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland - Release 1B Table 2: Census day usually resident population by council area, 2001 and 2011 , Accessed 22 March 2013
- ↑ Population Estimates (Current Geographic Boundaries) Archived 2017-04-25 at the Wayback Machine data cube as published by statistics.gov.scot on 1st April 2020