Movatterモバイル変換

Atlas of Scotland

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World

TheWikimedia Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available atWikimedia Commons.
Discussion •Update the atlas •Index of the Atlas •Atlas in categories •Other atlases on line

The introductions of the country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English.

Scotland

	Scotland Alba

English	Scotland - Scotland Scotland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. It occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shares a land border to the south with► England. It is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. To the north of Scotland lie the► Faroe Islands, to the south-west lies► Northern Ireland and the► Isle of Man. Apart from the mainland, Scotland consists of over 790 islands.
Gàidhlig	Alba Se dùthaich suidhichte ann an taobh a tuath Bhreatainn a th'ann anAlba. Bha i na rìoghachd neo-eisimileach gus an 18mh linn nuair a dh'aonaich Alba agus Sasainn airson Rìoghachd Bhreatainn Mòr a stèidheachadh anns am bliadhna 1707. Anns am bliadhna 1801 dh'aonaich Rìoghachd Bhreatainn Mòr le Rìoghachd na h-Eirinn airson an Rìoghachd Aonaichte a' chruthachadh. An 1999, chaidh Pàrlamaid na h-Alba a' chur air bhonn, far am bithear a' dèiligeadh ri gnothaichean poilitigeach a tha a' buntainn do dh' Alba a-mhàin.
Scots	Scotland Scotland (Gaelic: Alba) is a kintra in nor-wast Europe, an een o fower pairts that mak up the UK. It taks up the northren third o the Breetish island. The laund haes til its sooth the laund o Ingland, an is bund bi sea an ocean on aw ither sides.

Short name	Scotland
Official name	Scotland
Status	Country of the► United Kingdom
Capital	Edinburgh
Population	5,438,100 inhabitants
Area	78,772 km²
Major languages	English, Scottish Gaelic, Scots
Major religions	Protestantism, Roman Catholicism
More information	Scotland,Geography of Scotland,History of Scotland andPolitics of Scotland
More images	Scotland -Scotland (Category).

General maps

Map of Scotland

Detailled map of Scotland

Topographic map of Scotland

Map of the land cover

Maps of divisions

This section holds maps of the administrative divisions.

Counties of Scotland

Scottish council areas (system of local government 1996-present)

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Scotland, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Scotland.

See theAtlas of the United Kingdom for more maps

Britain in 500

Kingdom ofDál Riata around 650

Map showing Scandinavian settlement in the eighth (dark red), ninth (red), tenth (orange) and eleventh (yellow) centuries. Areas denoted in green are those affected by frequent viking incursions but with little or no Scandinavian settlement.

Ethnic map of Scotland around 1100

Lordships in Medieval Scotland, c. 1230

Scottish counties (system of local government 1890-1975)

Regions of Scotland (system of local government 1975–1994)

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.

1726 map of Scotland

Linguistic maps

Scots language in Scotland (2011 census)

Dialects of Scots language

Scottish Gaelic in Scotland (2011 census)

Notes and references

General remarks:

The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal tomaps andcartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as generalnotes and references.
Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in theAtlas of Turkey.