Fife
Fife Fìobha | |
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Coordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°WCoordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°W | |
Admin HQ | Glenrothes (umwhile Cupar)[1] |
Govrenment | |
• Bodi | Fife Cooncil |
• Control | SNP + Lab (cooncil NOC) |
• MPs | Douglas Chapman Stephen Gethins Peter Grant Lesley Laird |
• MSPs | Annabelle Ewing Jenny Gilruth Willie Rennie Shirley-Anne Somerville David Torrance |
Area | |
• Total | 1325 km2 (512 sq mi) |
Area rank | Ranked 13t |
Population (mid-2016 est.) | |
• Total | 370,300 |
• Rank | Rankit 3rd |
• Density | 279/km2 (720/sq mi) |
ONS code | S12000015 |
ISO 3166 code | GB-FIF |
Website | www |
Fife (Scots Gaelic: Fìobh) is aen o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It liys atween the Firth o Tay an the Firth o Forth. It's a tradietional coontie o Scotland, an a lieutenancie area tui.
Fife wis aen o the Pectish kinriks an is ey kent as the Kinrik o Fife. Fife maistliyk taks its naem frae Fib or Fif, a 7t centurie Pectish king. He wis aen o the seivin sons o Cruithne, a warrior king at ruled ower a wiyd erria o auncient Scotland.
Frae 1975 til 1996 Fife wis sindert intil thrie destriks: Dunfaurlin, Kirkcaudie, an North-Eist Fife. Sin 1996 the wark o thae destrik cooncils haes been cairrit oot bi Fife Cooncil.
Touns an vielages
[eedit | eedit soorce]Cupar tuik ower as coontie toun frae The Crail in the aerlie 13t centurie. Glenrothes haes been the heidtoun sin 1975. Fife's thrie mukkil touns is – Kirkcaudie, Dunfaurlin an Glenrothes. Gaun bi the 2006 estimate, Kirkcaudie is the maist biggest, wi aboot 48,108 fowk biydan thaerawa.[2] The biggest sattilment bi erria is Glenrothes.
The niest mukkil touns bi population is St Andras, Dawgety Bay, Rosyth, Methil an Coudenbeith.
The laev o Fife is maed up o smauer touns lik
- Inverkeithin,
- Kincairdin,
- Ainster,
- Lochgelly,
- Bruntisland,
- Leevin,
- Neeburgh,
- Tayport
- Cupar
an vielages lik Kinglassie, Kinghorn, Elie, Auchtertool, Crossgates an Bingry.
Referenses
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Complete Atlas of the British Isles. Readers' Digest. 1965. p. 218.
- ↑ "Population Estimates for Towns and Villages in Fife" (PDF). Fife Council. Mairch 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2009. [deid airtin]
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