Caithness

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Caithness
United Kingdom
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Caithness
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Area: 618 square miles
Population: Template:Hcspop
County town: Wick
County flower: Scottish primrose [1]

Caithness is the land beyond the Highlands. It is a triangular county at the north-eastern tip of Great Britain, bounded to the north and the east by the sea and to the west by Sutherland.

The land of Caithness is low-lying, in remarkable contrast to the mountainous shires elsewhere in the north.

Towns and villages

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