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The Highland Council Area (''Roinn na Gàidhealtachd'' in Gaelic ) is a Local Government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in Scotland . It shares borders with the council areas of Moray , Aberdeenshire , Perth And Kinross , and Argyll And Bute . Their councils, and those of Angus and Stirling , also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. The Highland area covers most of the mainland and Inner-Hebridean parts of the Traditional Counties of Inverness-shire , Ross-shire , and Cromartyshire , all of Sutherland , Nairnshire and Caithness , and the far north-west of Argyll . The area was created as a two-tier Region in 1975, with an elected council for the whole region and, in addition, elected councils for each of eight disricts, Badenoch And Strathspey , Caithness , Inverness , Lochaber , Nairn , Ross And Cromarty , Skye And Lochalsh and Sutherland . In 1996 the District Councils were wound up and their functions were transferred to the new Highland Council. This council maintains Area Committee s named after the old districts. To many people within the area using the name ''Highland'' as a noun sounds wrong. '' Dingwall in Highland'', for example, sounds very strange and is not Idiomatic Usage . To refer specifically to the area covered by the council, people tend to say ''the Highland Council area'' or ''the Highland area'' or ''the Highland region''. Otherwise they tend to use the traditional county names, such as ''Ross-shire''. ''Highlands'' sometimes refers to the Highland council area (as in '' Highlands And Islands Fire And Rescue Service ''). More usually, however, it refers to a somewhat larger or overlapping area. '' Northern '' (as in '' Northern Constabulary '') is also used to refer to the area covered by the Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service (which includes the Island Council Areas of Orkney , Shetland and Na H-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) . The Council Area headquarters is located in Inverness with the previous District Council offices retained as outstations. POLITICS Councillors The council represents 80 Ward s. Each ward elects one Councillor by the First Past The Post system of Election . (See '' List Of Highland Council Wards And Councillors ''.) There are plans, however, to abolish existing wards and to create new larger wards for the next round of elections, with each ward electing three or four councillors by the Single Transferable Vote system. The total number of councillors will remain the same. The next round of elections is scheduled to be held in 2007 . Council political composition
Members of the Scottish Parliament For elections to the , Inverness East, Nairn And Lochaber and Ross, Skye And Inverness West . Members of Parliament In the ; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch And Strathspey ; and Ross, Skye And Lochaber . Each constituency elects one MP by the First Past The Post system of election. TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN THE HIGHLAND COUNCIL AREA
PLACES OF INTEREST IN THE HIGHLAND COUNCIL AREA
See Scottish Highlands for more information. FOOTNOTES
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