Argyll an Bute

Coordinates: 56°06′N 5°30′W / 56.1°N 5.5°W / 56.1; -5.5

Argyll an Bute Earra-Ghaidheal agus Bòd'
Coat airms
Admin HQ	Lochgilphead
Govrenment
• Bodi	Argyll & Bute Cooncil
• Control	Ind + Con + LD (cooncil NOC)
• MPs	Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
• MSPs	Michael Russell (SNP) Jackie Baillie (Labour)
Area
• Total	6,908 km2 (2,667 sq mi)
Area rank	Ranked 2nd
Population  (mid-2016 est.)
• Total	87,100
• Rank	Rankit 27th
• Density	12/km2 (30/sq mi)
ONS code	S12000035
ISO 3166 code	GB-AGB
Website	http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/

Argyll an Bute (Scots Gaelic: Earra-Ghaidheal agus Bòd) is ane o the 32 council areas o Scotland an a lieutenancie area anaw. Its heidsteid is in Lochgilpheid.^[1]

Argyll an Bute haes the seicont-mukkilest area o onie ither Scots cooncil. Inhaudin ilands, thar is ower 3000 mile o coastlyn. It haes mairches wi the Hieland, Perth an Kinross, Stirlin an Wast Dunbartonshire cooncil areas. Its mairch rins throu Loch Lomond.

The cooncil area wis shapit in 1996, whan it wis cairv'd oot o the Strathclyde region. Argyll an Bute mellt thegither the existin Argyll an Bute destrik an ane ward o the Dumbarton destrik cried 'Helensburgh an Lomond'.

The latter senes o the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love war film'd aboot the lochs an hills o Argyll an Bute.^[2]

1. ↑ "Argyll & Bute". Scottish Places. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
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