Place:Stirling (council area), Scotland

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NameStirling (council area)
Alt namesSruighleasource: Wikipedia
TypeUnitary authority
Coordinates56.083°N 3.917°W
Located inScotland     (1996 - )
See alsoStirlingshire, Scotlandtraditional county covering most of Stirling Council Area before 1975
Tayside, ScotlandScottish region covering same part of Scotland 1975-1996
Contained Places
Burgh
Callander ( 1996 - )
Doune ( 1996 - )
Dunblane ( 1996 - )
Stirling ( 1996 - )
Castle
Doune Castle ( 1996 - )
Former parish
Dunblane ( 1996 - )
Lecropt ( 1996 - )
General region
Trossachs
Historical region
Breadalbane ( 1996 - )
Inhabited place
Aberfoyle ( 1996 - )
Bridge of Allan ( 1996 - )
Brig o' Turk
Carbeth ( 1996 - )
Crianlarich ( 1996 - )
Crianlarich
Deanston ( 1996 - )
Doune ( 1996 - )
Doune
Dunblane ( 1996 - )
Fallin
Haggs ( 1996 - )
Killin ( 1996 - )
Kingshouse
Lennoxtown ( 1996 - )
Lochearnhead
Polmont ( 1996 - )
Stirling ( 1996 - )
Strathyre
Thornhill
Tyndrum
Island
Inchmahome ( 1996 - )
Parish
Aberfoyle ( 1996 - )
Balfron ( 1996 - )
Buchanan ( 1996 - )
Callander ( 1996 - )
Campsie ( 1996 - )
Denny and Dunipace ( 1996 - )
Drymen ( 1996 - )
Dunblane and Lecropt ( 1996 - )
Killin ( 1996 - )
Kippen ( 1996 - )
Logie ( 1996 - )
Port of Monteith ( 1996 - )
Stirling ( 1996 - )
Strathblane ( 1996 - )
Seat
Keir ( 1996 - )
Unknown
Balgair
Bannockburn
Blackbraes
Blairlogie
Bothkennar
Callendar
Cambuskenneth
Causewayhead
Rumford
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

The Stirling council area is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about ( estimate). It was created under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 with the boundaries of the Stirling district of the former Central local government region, and it covers most of Stirlingshire (except Falkirk) and the south-western portion of Perthshire. Both counties were abolished for local government purposes under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

The administrative centre of the area is the city of Stirling, with the headquarters at Old Viewforth.

The area borders the council areas of Clackmannanshire (to the east), North Lanarkshire (to the south), Falkirk (to the south east), Perth and Kinross (to the north and north east), Argyll and Bute (to the north and north west), and both East and West Dunbartonshire to Stirling's southwest.

The majority of the population of the area is located in its southeast corner, in the city of Stirling and in the surrounding lowland communities: Bridge of Allan and Dunblane to the north, Bannockburn to the immediate south, and the three former coal mining communities of Cowie, Fallin, and Plean, known collectively as the "Eastern Villages".

The remaining 30 percent of the region's population is sparsely distributed across the rural, mainly highland, expanse in the north of the region. The southern half of this rural area comprises the flat western floodplain of the River Forth, bounded on the south by the Touch Hills and the Campsie Fells. North of the glen lie the Trossachs mountains, and the northern half of the region is generally mountainous in character.

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