This is a list of council areas of Scotland ordered by population. The populations of these Scottish council areas are mid-year estimates for 2007 from the Office for National Statistics. [1]
| Rank |
Council area |
Population |
| 1 |
City of Glasgow |
581,900 |
| 2 |
City of Edinburgh |
468,100 |
| 3 |
Fife |
360,500 |
| 4 |
North Lanarkshire |
324,700 |
| 5 |
South Lanarkshire |
309,500 |
| 6 |
Aberdeenshire |
239,200 |
| 7 |
Highland |
217,400 |
| 8 |
City of Aberdeen |
209,300 |
| 9 |
Renfrewshire |
169,600 |
| 10 |
West Lothian |
167,800 |
| 11 |
Falkirk |
150,700 |
| 12 |
Dumfries and Galloway |
148,300 |
| 13 |
City of Dundee |
142,200 |
| 14 |
Perth and Kinross |
142,100 |
| 15 |
North Ayrshire |
135,800 |
| 16 |
East Ayrshire |
119,600 |
| 17 |
South Ayrshire |
111,700 |
| 18 |
Scottish Borders |
111,400 |
| 19 |
Angus |
109,900 |
| 20 |
East Dunbartonshire |
104,900 |
| 21 |
East Lothian |
94,400 |
| 22 |
Argyll and Bute |
91,400 |
| 23 |
West Dunbartonshire |
91,100 |
| 24 |
East Renfrewshire |
89,300 |
| 25 |
Stirling |
88,200 |
| 26 |
Moray |
86,900 |
| 27 |
Inverclyde |
81,100 |
| 28 |
Midlothian |
79,500 |
| 29 |
Clackmannanshire |
49,900 |
| 30 |
Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) |
26,300 |
| 31 |
Shetland Islands |
22,000 |
| 32 |
Orkney Islands |
19,900 |
References
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