Scotland editor

SCOTLAND

• editor:Zagainova L.,

• English teacher,

• v. Vostochnoe,

• Minusinsk region,

• Krasnoyarsk krai.

Territory

• Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom, located on the British Isles and occupying approximately 30% of the island.

• The total area of the state is about 78 thousand km2.

• It can be divided into eight parts: Central Scotland, South West, Edinburgh, Glasgow, West Coast, Orkney and Shetland Islands, Inverness and Highlands, Aberdeenshire and Grampian Highlands.

Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Industries

• Most of Scotland's 5 millions population lives in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, as this is where most of jobs are.

• Scotland's traditional industries: coal, steel and shipbuilding.

Highlands and Islands

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• The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied. This area consisted of eight counties of Scotland:

• Argyll

• Caithness

• Inverness

• Nairn

• Orkney

• Ross and Cromarty

• Shetland

• Sutherland

North of Edinburgh and Glasgow

• North of Edinburgh and Glasgow are the Highlands of Scotland: mountains with few trees, many sheep, wild deer and golden eagles.

• Few people live in the Highlands.

• Most of them are farmers, although there is a lot of forestry and fishing.

• Large areas of the Highlands are kept by rich people for salmon-fishing and deer hunting.

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