Highlands and Islands

This article describes the geographic region of the Highlands and Islands. For the electoral region of the same name to the Scottish Parliament, see Highlands and Islands (electoral region) .

In Scotland , Highlands and Islands essentially refers to the Highlands plus the Orkney , Shetland and Hebrides archipelago .

Sometimes this area is defined as the scope of the Crofters' Act of 1886, which included the seven counties of Scotland Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness , Orkney and Shetland.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) uses a more comprehensive definition, which is also used by Eurostat ’s NUTS at level 2. And it is also the name of an electoral region for the Scottish Parliament .