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  • Type: County with 238,000 residents
  • Description: council area in the Scottish Highlands
  • Also known as: “Highland”, “Highland Council Area”, “Highland Region”, and “Highlands”

Highland Council

Latitude
57.5066° or 57° 30′ 24″ north
Longitude
-5.0038° or 5° 0′ 14″ west
Population
238,000
Elevation
2,267 feet (691 metres)
Abbreviation
“HLD”
Open location code
9C9PGX4W+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302323931
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
2646944
Wiki­data ID
Q208279
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Highland Council” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هايلاند”
  • Armenian: “Հայլենդ”
  • Asturian: “Highland”
  • Basque: “Highland”
  • Belarusian: “Гайлэнд”
  • Belarusian: “Хайленд”
  • Bengali: “হাইল্যান্ড”
  • Breton: “Kuzul an Uheldirioù”
  • Bulgarian: “Хайланд”
  • Catalan: “Consell de Highland”
  • Cebuano: “Highland (dapit sa konseho)”
  • Cebuano: “Highland”
  • Chinese: “Highland”
  • Chinese: “高地”
  • Chinese: “高地行政區”
  • Czech: “Highland”
  • Danish: “Highland (region)”
  • Danish: “Highland”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Highland”
  • Dutch: “Highland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هايلاند (منطقة مجلس)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هايلاند”
  • Esperanto: “Alta Lando”
  • Esperanto: “Highland”
  • Estonian: “Gàidhealtachd”
  • Estonian: “Highland”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Highland”
  • Finnish: “Ylämaa”
  • French: “Highland”
  • French: “Higland”
  • Galician: “Highland”
  • German: “GB-HLD”
  • German: “Highland”
  • Greek: “Χάιλαντ”
  • Gujarati: “હાઇલેન્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “היילנד (סקוטלנד)”
  • Hebrew: “היילנד”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז היילנד”
  • Hungarian: “Highland”
  • Indonesian: “Highland”
  • Irish: “Comhairle na Gáidhealtachd”
  • Irish: “Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd”
  • Italian: “Highland”
  • Japanese: “ハイランド・カウンシル・エリア”
  • Japanese: “ハイランド”
  • Japanese: “ハイランド州”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Korean: “하일랜드 주”
  • Korean: “하일랜드”
  • Latvian: “Hailenda”
  • Lithuanian: “Hailandas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Highland”
  • Macedonian: “Хајленд”
  • Malay: “Tanah Tinggi”
  • Manx: “Çheer ny Gaeil”
  • Manx: “Gaeltaght ny h-Albey”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Highland (gī-khu)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Highland (Council Area)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Highland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det skotske høyland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Highland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Scottish Highlands”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Highland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Highland”
  • Norwegian: “Highland”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Highland”
  • Ossetian: “Хайленд”
  • Persian: “هایلند”
  • Polish: “Highland”
  • Portuguese: “Área de Conselho de Highland”
  • Portuguese: “Highland”
  • Portuguese: “Sgìre Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd”
  • Romanian: “Highland”
  • Russian: “Хайленд”
  • Russian: “Хайлэнд”
  • Scots: “Hieland”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gàidhealtachd”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “sgìre Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Highland”
  • Slovak: “Vysočina”
  • Slovenian: “GB-HLD”
  • Slovenian: “Highland”
  • Spanish: “Highland”
  • Swedish: “Highland”
  • Tagalog: “Highland (council area)”
  • Tagalog: “Highland”
  • Tamil: “ஹயிலன்ட்”
  • Telugu: “హైలాండ్”
  • Turkish: “Highland”
  • Ukrainian: “Гайленд”
  • Urdu: “ہائی لینڈ”
  • Welsh: “Cyngor Ucheldir”
  • Welsh: “Cyngor yr Ucheldir”
  • Welsh: “Cyngor yr Ucheldiroedd”
  • Welsh: “Ucheldir”
  • Welsh: “Yr Ucheldir”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہائیلینڈ”
  • Yiddish: “הויכלאנד”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Highland Council”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.