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Scotland Scots Gaelic: Alba | |
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Motto: "In My Defens God Me Defend"a | |
 Location o Scotland (dark green) – on the European continent (green & dark grey) | |
| Status | Kintra |
| Caipital | Edinburgh |
| Lairgest ceety | Glesga 55°51′N 4°16′W / 55.850°N 4.267°W |
| Offeecial leids[5] | |
| Releegion | |
| Demonym(s) | Scots |
| Govrenment | Devolved pairlamentary legislatur within constitutional monarchye |
• Monarch | |
| Pairlament o the Unitit Kinrick | |
| Keir Starmer | |
| Ian Murray | |
| 59 MPs (o 650) | |
| Legislatur | Scots Pairlament |
| Formation | |
| 9t yearhunder (tradeetionally 843) | |
| 1 Mey 1707 | |
| 19 November 1998 | |
| Aurie | |
• Land | 77,933 km2 (30,090 sq mi)[8] |
| Population | |
• 2019 estimate |  5,463,300[9] |
• 2011 census | 5,313,600[10] |
• Density | 67.5/km2 (174.8/sq mi) |
| HDI (2017) | 0.901[11] verra heich |
| Currency | Poond sterling (GBP) |
| Time zone | UTC (GMT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy (AD) |
| Drivin side | caur |
| Cawin code | +44 |
| ISO 3166 code | GB-SCT |
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Scotland (pronooncit [ˈskɔʔlənd]; Inglis: Scotland; Scots Gaelic: Alba, [ˈal̪ˠapə] (
listen)) is a kintra in north wastren Europe, an is wan o the fower kintras[15] that maks the Unitit Kinrick. It taks up the northren thurd o the Great Breetain. Sooth o Scotland is Ingland, an is bund bi the German Ocean til the east an the Atlantic Ocean til the north an wast.
Scotland wis ance a free kinrick, but syne gaed intil a union wi England in 1603, whan Jeams VI o Scotland becam Jeams I o England efter the deith o Elspeth I. This union wis makkit formal on 1 Mey 1707 bi the Treaty o Union. The Scots Pairlament wis gotten rid o on 26 Mairch. The union southert baith kinricks, makkin the Kinrick o Great Breetain, wi a new single Pairlament haudden in Wastmeenster, Lunnon, but some pairts o Scotland's institutions, merkit the laund's naitional kirk an scuilin an legal systems, wis hauden apairt. In 1801, Scotland becam ane o the three launds o the Unitit Kinrick, alang wi England an Ireland (nou juist Northren Ireland). Wales is nou seen for uisual as anither laund, awtho it wis juist a principality o the kinrick o England in 1707.
In 1997, the Scots fowk voted tae hae a new pairlament, estaiblisht by the UK government in the Scotland Act 1998. The nou reconvened Scots Pairlament haes been gien the pouer tae govern the laund on maist Scots maiters, but haesna ower muckle pouer wi taxes, awtho it dis hae the pouer tae chynge the UK income tax rate bi 3p in the pund.
Scotland's size is maistly that estaiblisht by the 1237 Treaty o York atween Scotland an England an the 1266 Treaty o Perth atween Scotland an Norawa. Exceptions is the Isle o Mann, that is nou a croun dependency ootwi the Unitit Kinrick, Orkney an Shetland, that is nou Scots raither nor Dens, an Berwick, that wis defined as subject til the laws o England by the 1746 Wales an Berwick Act.
The patron saunt o Scotland is Saunt Andra, an St Andra's Day is on 30 November but it haesna been celebrate muckle syne the Reformation.
The wird Scot wis taen frae the Laitin an its uiss micht weel date fae aboot the first hauf o the 10t centurie, whan it first kythed in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle an harkent til the Laund o the Gaels, analogous til the Laitin Scotia. The ither name is "Caledonie", that's gien tae some pairts o the New Warld an colonies, like New Caledon. Scots kings adoptit the teetle Basileus/Rex Scottorum (= Hie King/King o the Gaels, basileus meanin sovereign in the Greek, an rex meanin king in the Laitin) an Rex Scotiae (King o Gael-Land) sometime in the 11t century, likely swee'd by the style Imperator Scottorum kent tae hae been uised bi Brian Bóruma in Ireland in 1005. In modren times the wird "Scot" is uised equaly for aw indwallers nae maiter wha thair forebeirs wis. This is acause the kintra haess haed a ceevic raither nor a single kin orientation for maist o the last thoosand year.
- ↑ "St Andrew—Quick Facts". Scotland. org—The Official Online Gateway. Archived frae the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2007.
- ↑ "St Andrew". Catholic Online. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ↑ "St Margaret of Scotland". Catholic Online. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
"Patron saints". Catholic Online. Retrieved 15 November 2011. - ↑ "St Columba". Catholic Online. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ↑ "FACT: SCOTLAND'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES ARE ENGLISH, SCOTS, GAELIC & BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE". Scotland.org. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2023.
- ↑ "Analysis of Religion in the 2001 Census". The Scottish Government. 17 Mey 2006. Archived frae the original on 6 Juin 2011. Retrieved 18 Juin 2017.
- ↑ "Scotland's Census 2011 – Table KS209SCb" (PDF). scotlandscensus.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 Mairch 2017.
- ↑ Region and Country Profiles, Key Statistics and Profiles, October 2013, ONS. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- ↑ Jonathan, McMullan (28 Juin 2018). "Population estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland". Ons.gov.uk (in Inglis). Office for National Statistics.
- ↑ "Population estimates by sex, age and administrative area, Scotland, 2011 and 2012". National Records of Scotland. 8 August 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ↑ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org (in Inglis). Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ↑ "European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages". Cooncil o Europe (in Inglis). Retrieved 10 December 2019.
- ↑ Macleod, Angus "Gaelic given official status" Archived 2010-05-31 at the Wayback Machine (22 April 2005) The Times. London. Retrieved 2 August 2007.
- ↑ "Scotland becomes first part of UK to recognise signing for deaf as official language". Herald Scotland. 2015. Retrieved 17 Januar 2016.
- ↑ Scotland, Ingland, Wales an Northren Ireland