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The local government 'regions and districts of Scotland' were established under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as a two-tier system of local government in Scotland. This reorganisation of local government took full effect in 1975. Each of nine regions was divided into a number of districts, varying from three to nineteen.
The new system was based closely on that proposed by the Wheatley Report produced by a Royal Commission into Scottish local government in 1969, and the regions generally bore no relation at all to the administrative counties that had been used previously, since 1889. Also, the districts were quite different from the subdivisions of counties, also called ''districts'', which had been created and used under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929.
The regions and districts were abolished on April 1, 1996 and replaced with the current unitary council areas of Scotland. In 1996 some regions became unitary council areas. Various regions were broken up into many council areas and various districts became unitary council areas.
In addition to the regions and districts, there were three island council areas, covering Shetland, Orkney, and the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides). These areas may be seen as regions consisting of just one district and, in retrospect, as early examples of Scottish unitary council areas.

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Regions

Districts

Alphabetical list of districts

References

See also

Regions

Scotland was subdivided into regions as follows:

#Strathclyde #Dumfries and Galloway #Borders #Lothian #Central #Fife #Tayside #Grampian #Highland #Western Isles Not shown: ★ Shetland ★ Orkney

Districts

The regions consisted of districts as follows:

Region	Districts
Borders	Berwickshire Ettrick and Lauderdale Roxburgh Tweeddale
Central	Clackmannan Falkirk Stirling
Dumfries and Galloway	Annandale and Eskdale Nithsdale Stewartry Wigtown
Fife	Dunfermline Kirkcaldy North-East Fife
Grampian	Aberdeen Banff and Buchan Gordon Kincardine and Deeside Moray
Highland	Badenoch and Strathspey Caithness Inverness Lochaber Nairn Ross and Cromarty Skye and Lochalsh Sutherland
Lothian	East Lothian Edinburgh Midlothian West Lothian
Orkney Islands	Orkney Islands
Shetland Islands	Shetland Islands
Strathclyde	Argyll Bearsden and Milngavie Clydebank Clydesdale Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Cumnock and Doon Valley Cunninghame Dumbarton East Kilbride Eastwood Glasgow Hamilton Inverclyde Kilmarnock and Loudoun Kyle and Carrick Monklands Motherwell Renfrew Strathkelvin
Tayside	Angus Dundee Perth and Kinross
Western Isles	Western Isles

Alphabetical list of districts

District	Region
Aberdeen	Grampian
Angus	Tayside
Annandale and Eskdale	Dumfries and Galloway
Argyll	Strathclyde
Badenoch and Strathspey	Highland
Banff and Buchan	Grampian
Bearsden and Milngavie	Strathclyde
Berwickshire	Borders
Caithness	Highland
Clackmannan	Central
Clydebank	Strathclyde
Clydesdale	Strathclyde
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Strathclyde
Cumnock and Doon Valley	Strathclyde
Cunninghame	Strathclyde
Dumbarton	Strathclyde
Dundee	Tayside
Dunfermline	Fife
East Kilbride	Strathclyde
East Lothian	Lothian
Eastwood	Strathclyde
Edinburgh	Lothian
Ettrick and Lauderdale	Borders
Falkirk	Central
Glasgow	Strathclyde
Gordon	Grampian
Hamilton	Strathclyde
Inverclyde	Strathclyde
Inverness	Highland
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Strathclyde
Kincardine and Deeside	Grampian
Kirkcaldy	Fife
Kyle and Carrick	Strathclyde
Lochaber	Highland
Midlothian	Lothian
Monklands	Strathclyde
Moray	Grampian
Motherwell	Strathclyde
Nairn	Highland
Nithsdale	Dumfries and Galloway
North-East Fife	Fife
Orkney Islands	Orkney Islands
Perth and Kinross	Tayside
Renfrew	Strathclyde
Ross and Cromarty	Highland
Roxburgh	Borders
Shetland Islands	Shetland Islands
Skye and Lochalsh	Highland
Stewartry	Dumfries and Galloway
Stirling	Central
Strathkelvin	Strathclyde
Sutherland	Highland
Tweeddale	Borders
Western Isles	Western Isles
West Lothian	Lothian
Wigtown	Dumfries and Galloway

References

See also

★ List of burghs in Scotland

★ Counties of Scotland

★ Lieutenancy areas of Scotland

★ Subdivisions of Scotland

★ List of places in Scotland

★ Local government in the United Kingdom