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Administrative regions In 1975 the former local government units -chiefly the counties of Ayr was divided into the districts of Kyle and Carrick, Cumnock and the burghs -which had been modified considerably in the nineand Doon Valley, Kilmarnock and Loudon and Cunninghame (which teenth and twentieth centuries were replaced by a two-tier system also included Arran and the Cumbraes). The system of 1975 was of local government consisting of nine regions and three island aritself replaced in April 1996 with a system of 32 single tier districts. eas at the top and 53 districts under them. The largest region -StrathUntil the nineteenth century there had been one sheriffclyde -stretched from Skye to Carrick and had a population of about dom for each county. Finally they were organized in nine groups of 2"2 million; whereas Orkney had only about 20,000. counties with one sheriff principal each -except Lanark, which was The districts in many cases -for example, West Lothian -a single county sheriffdom. After 1975 there were five sheriffdoms corresponded in area to the former counties; but the larger and more based on the regions and the sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin. populous counties were divided into several districts: thus, the county ~ ~ f;:j ~{& ORKNEY r-;;c!/6;1 ISLANDSAREA~ ~Orkney , lJ .... _-- SHETLAND ISLANDS AREA WESTERN ISLES ISLANDS AREA 1 Clydebank 2 Bearsden and Milngavie 3 Strathkelvin 4 Cumbernauld and Kilsy1h 5 Monklands 6 City of Glasgow 7 Eastwood 8 Hamilton 9 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 10 East Kilbride kms FIFE REGION Region or Island Area 0 25, 50,, 75, , 100 Sutherland District 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 miles Regions, island areas and districts PGBM

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