Scotland

Map of Scotland

lieutenancy areas and main cities

The following map of Scotland shows the lieutenancy areas and their main cities.
First read the questions and then have a look at the map to be able to answer them. We hope this test will be of great use to both students and people who are planning to visit Scotland (travel and tourism). We suggest visitors to read the article entitled “Tourism in Scotland”, below the map.

What’s the name of each of the 34 lieutenancy areas that appear on the map?
Taking the cursor to the cities , you will be able to see them as tooltips*. Haciendo clic accederás a un mapa en el que se ha resaltado y aparece sobreimpreso su nombre.
What are the names of their their main cities?
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Los nombres las lieutenancy areas de Scotland (en orden alfabético) son: Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries, Dunbartonshire, Dundee, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Glasgow, Inverness, Kincardineshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Moray, Nairn, Orkney, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Ross and Cromarty, Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Shetland, Stirling and Falkirk, Sutherland, The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Tweeddale, West Lothian, Western Isles; y Wigtown.

Tourism in Scotland

Scotland attracts thousands of tourists by the beauty and the colorful one of its landscape and by its historical and architectonic wealth. In Scotland the traveller can visit: the High Earth (Highlands) - with its imposing mountainous landscape and a gorgeous sprinkled coast of colorful fishing towns, region in which is the Ness lake (Loch Ness) and its famous " monstruo" (Loch Ness Monster or Nessie), the island of Skye (Isle of Skye) - with the Gardens of the Castle of Armadale (Armadale Castle Gardens) and the Museum of the Islands (Museum of the Isles) -, the Castle of Dunrobin (Dunrobin Castle, Golspie), the Castle of Urquhart (Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness), and the Funicular Railroad of Monte Cairngorm (Cairngorm Funicular Mountain Railway); the region of Royal Deeside, near the city of Aberdeen, with its most beautiful castles - between which the one of Balmoral stands out, calls to account summery of the queen, in the Route of the Castles (Castle Trail) -, the imposing panoramic views that offer their coasts, the Grampianos mounts (Grampian Mountains), and the whiskey distilleries of Malta (whiskey) located on the Spey river (River Spey); the Lagos of the county of Perth (Perthshire), very appreciated by the lovers of the fishing; the fishing villages of the regions of Angus and Dundee, surrounded by wooded mounts; the region the center-west of the country, with its beautiful landscapes of forests, cliffs and Lagos, in which the Castle of Stirling (Stirling Castle), the Lomond lake (Loch Lomond or Loch Laomainn) and the Forest Park Queen Elizabeth stand out (Queen Elizabeth Forest Park); the islands of Iona and Mull (Isle of Mull and Iona); the city of Glasgow (in gaélico, Glaschu; colloquially, Glesca), with its commercial centers and their museums; the small locality of New Lanark, located in the valley of the Clyde (Clyde Valley), not very far from Glasgow; the city of Edinburgh (Edinburgh; in gaélico, Dùn Èideann), with its old helmet, its castle (Edinburgh Castle), its commercial centers, their hundreds of pubs, their famous festivales and their museums; and the abbeys and castles of the region of the Borders (Borders Region), in the border with England (England), a paradise for the lovers of the cycling and the senderismo. The tourist can visit, in addition, thus called " Exteriores" islands; (The Outer Islands): the Shetland, a paradise for the lovers of the marine birds; the Orkneys (Orkney), with its rest of the Age of Stone and the vikingos; and the Hébridas Outer (Outer Hebrides or The Western Isles), central place of the gaélica culture. Collapse article … Expand article