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• Aberdeenshire
  ...[[Alvah]], it also forms a detached part of Aberdeenshire's ancient parish of [[King Edward]]. ...t is mountainous, especially [[Braemar]], which contains the greatest mass of elevated land in the [[British Isles]]. The Dee valley has sandy soil, the
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• Midlothian
  ...nating presence is [[Edinburgh]], from which it takes its alternative name of Edinburghshire. The county lies along the southern shore of the Firth of Forth between, as the name suggests, East Lothian and West Lothian. Midloth
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• Orkney
  ...s north of the coast of [[Caithness]]. Orkney has approximately 70 islands of which 20 are inhabited.<ref>Haswell-Smith (2004) pp. 336-403.</ref><ref>Wic ...largest island, known as the [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]] and has an area of 202 square miles making it the tenth-largest island in the [[British Isles]
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• Renfrewshire
  ...a small but populous [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the banks of the [[River Clyde]]. Its [[county town]] is [[Renfrew]], though Renfrew is ...mall detached portion of the parish of Renfrew stands on the northern bank of the Clyde, surrounded on the landward side by [[Dumbartonshire]].
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• Stirlingshire
  ...Campsie Fells]] to [[Loch Lomond]] and to within four miles of the [[Firth of Clyde]]. ...tic and indeed bloody episodes of British history, in those long ages when war was known in these lands.
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• Terminology of the British Isles
  ...ften used loosely. The purpose of this article is to explain the meanings of and relationships among those terms. ...'''British Isles''' is an archipelago consisting of the two large islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and many smaller surrounding islands.
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• Aberdeen
  |LG district=City of Aberdeen ...rdeenshire]] and Scotland's third most populous city. It is a major centre of the North Sea oil industry.
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• Dundee
  ...d the largest town of [[Angus]], standing on the north bank of the [[Firth of Tay]]. It is the fourth-largest city in [[Scotland]]. ...along with its other major industries gave Dundee its epithet as the city of "jam, jute and journalism".
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• Irvine, Ayrshire
  ...gh Constable of Scotland, Hugh de Morville. It also served as the capital of [[Cunninghame]]. The poet [[Robert Burns]] lived here for a time, after wh ...nninghame and Largs. The dispute was resolved by Robert II's Royal Charter of 8 April 1372 conferring Royal Burgh status on Irvine.
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• Kirkcaldy
  | picture caption=Kirkcaldy from the Firth of Forth ...cities of [[Dundee]] and [[Edinburgh]]. It also forms a parish by the name of Kirkcaldy and Dysart.
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• Stirling
  ...g standing in a narrow neck of passable land joining the Lowlands to the [[Scottish Highlands|Highlands]]. Stirling itself stands on the south bank of the Forth, which forms Stirlingshire’s northern boundary for all but a fe
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• Leith
  | picture caption=Harbour in the Water of Leith ...h at the mouth of the [[Water of Leith]] on the south shore of the [[Firth of Forth]].
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• Whitehaven
  ...land is outside the [[Lake District]] National Park, its towns the product of the Industrial Revolution, and Whitehaven is no exception. Its former weal A planned town at first, Whitehaven is the most complete example of planned Georgian architecture in Europe and recently it has been pursuing g
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• Londonderry
  ...second-biggest city in [[Northern Ireland]]. The city stands at the mouth of the [[River Foyle]] as the rivermouth becomes [[Lough Foyle]]. ...s/urban_rural/ur_gaz.pdf |title=Statistical Classification and Delineation of Settlements - February 2005 |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2010-06-20}}</re
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• Bangor, County Down
  ...le place to live], UTV News, 3 August 2007</ref> Bangor was granted [[List of cities in the United Kingdom|city status]] by Letters Patent on 2 December ...oad and a direct railway line. Bangor is 13½&nbsp;miles east of the heart of Belfast and thirty minutes by train or bus with George Best Belfast City Ai
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• Annan
  ...nnan''' is a town and royal burgh in [[Dumfriesshire]], close to the mouth of the [[River Annan]]. ...es Centre. In Port Street, some of the windows remain blocked up, a legacy of the window tax.
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• Dumfries
  ...tp://qosfc.com/new_newsview.aspx?newsid=277 "Eva Mendes - the latest Queen of the South" 7th November 2010]</ref> ==Name of the town==
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• Isle of Arran
  |name=Isle of Arran |map=Isle of Arran locator.png
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• Cookstown
  ...fourth largest town in the county. At the 2001 census it had a population of nearly 11,000. ...e linen industry West of the [[River Bann]], and until 1956, the processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town
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• British Isles
  ...reland satellite image bright.png|300px|thumb|right|A satellite photograph of the British Isles, the island on the right being Great Britain and the smal ...h and east of the islands lies continental Europe, 21 miles from the coast of [[Kent]] at the nearest point. To the north is open sea until the Faroe Isl
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