Lieutenancy Area

Lieutenancy Area in Scotland is the name given to the areas of responsibility of the ceremonial Lord Lieutenants , the representatives of the British monarch in Scotland . The territory of a Lieutenancy Area may differ from the current counties and historic counties of Scotland. Similar areas in England are the Ceremonial Counties there .

The office of Lord Lieutenant in the four cities of Aberdeen , Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow is carried out ex officio by the respective Lord Provost , an elected politician. All other Lord Lieutenants are appointed by the British monarch. Scotland is currently divided into 35 Lieutenancy Areas:

Lieutenancy Areas of Scotland
Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Ayrshire and Arran Banffshire Berwickshire Caithness Clackmannanshire Dumfries Dunbartonshire Dundee East Lothian Edinburgh Fife Glasgow Inverness Kincardineshire	Lanarkshire Midlothian Morayshire Nairn Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Ross and Cromarty Roxburgh , Ettrick and Lauderdale Stirling and Falkirk Sutherland The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Tweeddale West Lothian Western Isles Wigtown Orkney (not pictured) Shetland (not pictured)

Web links

• The Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996
• The Lord Lieutenants in Scotland