Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census. It has land borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Moray and Perth and Kinross. The wider upland area of the Scottish Highlands after which the council area is named extends beyond the Highland council area into all the neighbouring council areas plus Angus and Stirling.
Country: Scotland
Sovereign state: United Kingdom
Lieutenancy areas: Inverness · Nairn · Ross and Cromarty · Sutherland · Caithness
Unitary authority: 1 April 1996
Administrative HQ: The Highland Council Headquarters, Inverness
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