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Encyclopedia > Forfarshire
This article is about the region in Scotland. Angus can also refer to Angus cattle or to a film (Angus) about an overweight boy who is humiliated by his peers. In Celtic mythology, Angus is an alternative spelling for Aengus, the legendary hero.

Angus
Image:ScotlandAngus.png
Geography
Area:
- Total
- % Water
Ranked 10th
2,182 kmē
? %
Admin HQ: Forfar
ISO 3166-2: GB-ANS
ONS code: 00QC
Demographics
Population:
- Total (April 29, 2001)
- Density
Ranked 18th
108,400
50 / kmē
Politics
Angus Council
http://www.angus.gov.uk
Control: SNP
MPs: Michael Weir
Peter Wishart
Historic Angus
Image:ScotlandAngusTrad.png

Angus is one of the historic counties and also one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. The unitary council region borders onto Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and the City of Dundee. Main industries: agriculture and fishing.


The traditional county borders Kincardineshire to the north-east, Aberdeenshire to the north, Perthshire to the west. Southwards, it faces Fife across the Firth of Tay.


The county can be split into three geographic areas. To the North and West, the topography is mountainous. This is the area of the five Angus Glens. The area is sparsely populated and the main industry is hill-farming. In the South and East, the topography consists of rolling hills bordering the sea. The area is fairly well populated with the larger towns and the City of Dundee on the coast. In between these two areas lies Strathmore, the Great Valley, a fertile agricultural area, noted for potatoes, Angus cattle, and soft fruit.


Angus is also a hamburger name sold by Burger King at 2004.


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Scotland | Council Areas of Scotland

Aberdeen | Aberdeenshire | Angus | Argyll and Bute | Clackmannanshire | Dumfries and Galloway | Dundee | East Ayrshire | East Dunbartonshire | East Lothian | East Renfrewshire | na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) | Edinburgh | Falkirk | Fife | Glasgow | Highland | Inverclyde | Midlothian | Moray | North Ayrshire | North Lanarkshire | Orkney | Perth and Kinross | Renfrewshire | Scottish Borders | Shetland | South Ayrshire | South Lanarkshire | Stirling | West Dunbartonshire | West Lothian


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Forfarshire - LoveToKnow 1911 (1550 words)
Forfarshire is characterized by great variety of surface and may be divided physically into four well-marked sections.
The glens of the Forfarshire Grampians are remarkable for their beauty, and several of them for the wealth of their botanical specimens.
The largest and finest of them are Glen Isla, in which are the ruins of Forter Castle, destroyed by Argyll in 1640, and the earl of Airlie's shooting-lodge of the Tulchan; Glen Clova, near the entrance to which stands Cortachy Castle, the seat of the earl of Airlie; Glen Esk and Glen Prosen.
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