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The '''Highlands and Islands area''' has a large area of overlap with the [[Scottish Highlands]], and the two terms are often taken to mean the same area. |
The '''Highlands and Islands area''' has a large area of overlap with the [[Scottish Highlands]], and the two terms are often taken to mean the same area. |
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The Highlands and Islands area has a large area of overlap with the Scottish Highlands, and the two terms are often taken to mean the same area.
The Highlands and Islands area is sometimes defined as that to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied. This area consisted of the areas of seven of the counties of Scotland:
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) uses a broader definition, and Highlands and Islands has been the name of a Scottish Parliament electoral region since 1999.
In Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service the name refers to the local government areas of Highland, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. Northern, as in Northern Constabulary, is also used to refer to this area.
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- To the southern inhabitants of Scotland, the state of the mountains and islands is equally known with that of Borneo and Sumatra: of both they have only heard a little, and guess the rest. Samuel Johnson, 1703.
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