Highland Council
The Scottish Highlands are the rugged northern and northwestern portion of Scotland. This is the Scotland conjured up by visions of tartan, kilts, Bonnie Prince Charlie and all.
- County with about 236,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 2,270 feet (690 metres)
- …is abbreviated as “HLD”
- Description: council area in the Scottish Highlands
- Also known as“Highland”“Highland Council Area”“Highland Region”“Highlands”
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Latitude
57.5066° or 57° 30′ 24″ north
Longitude
-5.0038° or 5° 0′ 14″ west
Open location code
9C9PGX4W+MF
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OpenStreetMap feature
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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: “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”
- Hausa: “Highland”
- Hebrew: “היילנד (סקוטלנד)”
- Hebrew: “היילנד”
- Hebrew: “מחוז היילנד”
- Hungarian: “Highland”
- Ido: “Highland”
- Indonesian: “Highland”
- Irish: “Comhairle na Gáidhealtachd”
- 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”
- Latin: “Planities-Montana”
- 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)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Highland”
- 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: “A‘ Ghàidhealtachd”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Comhairle na 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: “ہائلینڈ”
- 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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