Stirling Council

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Stirling
Sruighlea


Logo	Coat of arms

Location

Geography

Area

Ranked 9th

- Total

2,187 km²

- % Water

Admin HQ

Stirling

ISO 3166-2

GB-STG

ONS code

00RG

Demographics

Population

Ranked 25th

- Total (2006)

87,800

- Density

40 / km²

Scottish Gaelic

- Total ()

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Politics

Stirling Council
http://www.stirling.gov.uk/

Control

Labour (minority control)

MPs

Anne McGuire

MSPs

Stirling (Sruighlea in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland with a population of about 85,000. It covers most of the former county of Stirlingshire (except Falkirk) and the south-western portion of the former county of Perthshire. The administrative centre of the region is the City of Stirling itself. The region borders Clackmannanshire (to the east), Falkirk (to the south east), Perth and Kinross (to the north and north east), Argyll and Bute (to the north and north west), and both East and West Dunbartonshire, both to Stirling's southwest.

The majority of the population of the region is located in its southeast corner, in the city of Stirling and in the surrounding lowland communities: Dunblane and Bridge of Allan to the north, Bannockburn to the immediate south, and the three former coal mining communities of Cowie, Fallin, and Plean (known collectively as "The Eastern Villages").

The remaining 30 percent of the region's population is sparsely distributed across the rural, mainly highland, expanse in the north of the region. The southern half of this rural area comprises the flat western floodplain of the River Forth, bounded on the south by the Touch Hills and the Campsie Fells. North of the glen lie the Trossachs mountains, and the northern half of the region is generally mountainous in character.