The Highland council area (Roinn na Gàidhealtachd in Gaelic) is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in Scotland. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute.
Their councils, and those of Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. The Highland area covers most of the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the former counties of Inverness-shire and Ross and Cromarty, all of Sutherland, Caithness and Nairnshire, and small parts of Argyll and Moray.
The area was created as a two-tier region in 1975, with an elected council for the whole region and, in addition, elected councils for each of eight disricts, Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh and Sutherland. In 1996 the District Councils were wound up and their functions were transferred to the new Highland Council. This council maintains area committees named after the old districts.
The Council Area headquarters is located in Inverness with the previous District Council offices retained as outstations.
The United Kingdom is a political union made up of four constituent areas: the three countries of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and Northern Ireland. It is incorrect to refer to England as the United Kingdom or Great Britain, or vice versa, because of this. The United Kingdom also has several overseas territories, including Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, while the Crown has a relationship with the dependencies of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. A constitutional monarchy, the United Kingdom has close relationships with fifteen other Commonwealth Realms that share the same monarch. Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.
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