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[a] [2] The 52 localities with a population over 15,000 are listed below. [1] Glasgow is the most populous locality in Scotland, and also the largest city; Greater Glasgow is the largest settlement. Paisley is the fifth most populous locality in Scotland, and the largest town by population. Stirling has the smallest population of Scotland's cities.
Scotland has eight cities. Edinburgh is the capital city and Glasgow is the most populous. Scottish towns were granted burghs or royal burgh status by Scottish kings, including by David I of Scotland and William the Lion. City status has later been granted by royal charter and letters patent. Scotland has gained new cities since the year 2000 ...
List of Largest Urban Areas in Scotland # Area Population (2020) Area (km 2) Density (People/km 2) Primary Subdivisions 1: Greater Glasgow: 1,009,300: 265: 3,813
Covering an area of 78,782 square kilometres (30,418 sq mi), Scotland has a population density of 67.2/km 2 (174/sq mi). Around 70% of the country's population (3.5 million) live in the Central Belt —a region stretching in a northeast–southwest orientation between the major Scottish cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and including the major ...
The first national census was conducted in 1755, and showed the population of Scotland as 1,265,380. By then four towns had populations of over 10,000, with the capital, Edinburgh, the largest with 57,000 inhabitants. Overall the population of Scotland grew rapidly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Locality Population (2001) Area ()Population density; Arbroath: 22,785 767 29.7 Birkhill-Muirhead: 1936 228 8.5 Brechin: 7199 264 27.3 Carnoustie: 10,561 361
This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. Burghs (10 C, 67 P) Towns in Scotland by council area (29 C) County towns in Scotland (5 C, 29 P) Spa towns in Scotland (1 P)
Glasgow is Scotland's main locus of Gaelic language use outside the Highlands and Islands. In 2011, 5,878 residents of the city over age 3 spoke Gaelic, amounting to 1.0% of the population. Of Scotland's 25 largest cities and towns, only Inverness, the unofficial capital of the Highlands, has a higher percentage of Gaelic speakers. [194]