County of Inverness
Geography
Area - Total	Ranked 1st 2,695,037 acres (10,906 km²)
County town	Inverness
Chapman code	INV

Inverness-shire or the County of Inverness (Siorrachd Inbhir Nis in Gaelic) is one of the registration counties of Scotland. Until 1975 it was a local government county. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... This is a list of traditional counties of Scotland ordered by area. ... A county town is the capital of a county in Ireland or the United Kingdom. ... Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Highland council area and the Highlands of Scotland. ... Chapman codes are largely a superset of the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes identifying administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, Ireland and their surrounding islands, but covering historical divisions. ... // Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... A registration county was, in the United Kingdom, a statistical unit used for the output of census information. ... This article is becoming very long. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

The registration county is made up of the historic districts of Inverness (without Nairn), parts of Lochaber and Badenoch. The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, established a uniform system of county councils and burgh councils in Scotland and restructured many of Scotland’s counties. (See: History of local government in the United Kingdom). Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Highland council area and the Highlands of Scotland. ... The Royal Burgh of Nairn (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Narann), formally North Nairnville, is a burgh in The Highlands of Scotland, lying about fifteen miles east of Inverness on the coast of the Moray Firth. ... Lochaber (Scottish Gaelic, Loch Abar) refers to a large area of the central and western Scottish Highlands. ... Badenoch, a district of south-east Inverness-shire in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath mountains, on the east by the Cairngorms and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampians, and on the west by Lochaber. ... The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1888 (52 & 53 Vict. ... In the British Isles, a county council is a council that governs a county. ... A sign in Linlithgow, Scotland. ... The history of local government in the United Kingdom has its origins in the Middle Ages. ...

The former county covered a large mainland area and various island areas off the west coast. The mainland area had coastline in both the east and the west and included the towns of Kingussie, Fort William and Mallaig. The island areas included North Uist, South Uist, and Harris in the Outer Hebrides, and Skye and Eigg in the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides. Until 1891 the mainland area was somewhat fragmented (but much less so than some other county areas in Scotland). In that year changes were made following recommendations of the boundary commissioners appointed under the 1889 Act. From 1891 onwards Inverness-shire had neighbouring counties as follow: Ross and Cromarty to the north, Nairnshire, Moray, Banffshire and Aberdeenshire to the east, and Perthshire and Argyll to the south. The county town was Inverness. Rugged coastline of the West Coast of New Zealand The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. ... Kingussie is a small burgh in the Scottish Highlands adjacent to the A9 road, although the old route of the A9 served as the towns main street. ... Fort William from Loch Linnhe Fort William is the largest town in the western Scottish Highlands (in the Highland unitary authority), and a major tourist centre. ... Mallaig harbour from the ferry to the Isle of Skye Mallaig is a port in Lochaber, on the west coast of the Highlands of Scotland. ... Location of North Uist Landsat image of North Uist North Uist (Scottish Gaelic: Uibhist a Tuath) is an island of the Outer Hebrides. ... Looking west to Nicolsons Leap. ... The Isle of Harris An Cliseam from the Abhainn Mharaig, just off the main road to Lewis. ... Western Isles redirects here. ... Looking towards Quiraing, Skye. ... The Small Isles are a group of islands considered part of the British Isles, lying in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. ... The Hebrides (Inner Hebrides in red) The Inner Hebrides are a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. ... The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1888 (52 & 53 Vict. ... Ross and Cromarty: administrative county (1889-1975) Image:RossCromDistrict. ... Nairnshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Narann in Gaelic) is a small traditional county of Scotland, centred around Nairn, the traditional county town. ... Moray, or Morayshire or Elginshire (Moireibh in Gaelic) is one of the Registration counties of Scotland, bordering Nairnshire to the west, Inverness-shire to the south, and Banffshire to the east. ... Banffshire (Siorrachd Bhanbh in Gaelic) is a small traditional county in the north of Scotland. ... The historic county of Aberdeenshire (Siorrachd Obar Dheathain in Gaelic) was until 1975 a county of Scotland. ... Perthshire (Siorrachd Pheairt in Gaelic) was a county in central Scotland, which extended from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south. ... Argyll, archaically Argyle (Airthir-Ghaidheal in Gaelic, translated as [the] East Gael, or [the] East Irish), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a traditional county of Scotland. ... A county town is the capital of a county in Ireland or the United Kingdom. ... Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Highland council area and the Highlands of Scotland. ...

Today the former county area is divided between the unitary council areas of Highland, Na h-Eileanan Siar (the Western Isles) and Moray. The council areas of Scotland form the local government areas of Scotland, all of them unitary authorities. ... The Highland unitary authority area (Roinn na Gàidhealtachd in Gaelic) is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in Scotland. ... Moray (Moireibh in Gaelic), one of the 32 unitary council regions (or areas) of Scotland, lies in the north-east of the country and borders on the regions of Aberdeenshire and Highland. ...

In 1972, the Isle of Rockall Act was passed, formally incorporating the tiny island of Rockall into Scotland as part of the Isle of Harris, Inverness-shire (Harris is not part of the modern registration county). 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Isle of Rockall Act, 1972 was a UK Act of Parliament formally annexing Rockall in its entirety to protect it from Irish and Icelandic claims. ... Rockall, a small, isolated rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean Rockall is a small, rocky islet in the North Atlantic, in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the United Kingdom. ... This article is about Harris in Scotland. ...

Constituency

There was an Inverness-shire constituency of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. The constituency represented the county of Inverness-shire minus the parliamentary burgh of Inverness, which was represented as a component of Inverness District of Burghs. Inverness was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918, when it was divided or merged into Inverness, Ross and Cromarty and Western Isles. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ... A burgh constituency is a type of parliamentary constituency in Scotland. ... Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Highland council area and the Highlands of Scotland. ... Inverness Burghs was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. ...

In 1918 the county constituency was divided between the Inverness constituency and the Western Isles constituency, which were both then new constituencies. The Inverness constituency included the burgh of Inverness, other components of the district of burghs being divided between the Moray and Nairn constituency and the Ross and Cromarty constituency. Inverness was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708. ... Na h-Eileanan an Iar is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created in 1918. ... The Act of Union 1707 and pre-Union Scottish legislation provided for 14 Members of Parliament from Scotland to be elected from districts of Burghs. ... Moray and Nairn was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. ... Ross and Cromarty was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1983. ...

In 1983, eight years after the local government county of Inverness-shire had been divided between the Highland and Grampian regions and the Western Isles council area, the Inverness constituency was replaced, largely by the Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber constituency. The Highland unitary authority area (Roinn na Gàidhealtachd in Gaelic) is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in Scotland. ... Grampian (Roinn a Mhonaidh in Gaelic) was a local government region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. ... The Western Isles are an archipelago in Scotland. ... Inverness Burghs was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708. ...