Scotland
| City | Year granted city status |
Cathedral (pre-1888) |
City council | Image | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen32 (Scots: Aiberdeen) (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dheathain) |
7003117900000000000 city status confirmed 189131 (royal burgh 1179) |
St Machar's Cathedral | Local government district | 217,120 | |
| Dundee32 (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Dèagh) |
7003119100000000000 188930 (royal burgh 1191) |
not applicable | Local government district | 152,320 | |
| Edinburgh32 (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann) |
7003132900000000000 city status has never been formally granted, accepted as city by ancient usage by the eighteenth century and confirmed in subsequent local government legislation (royal burgh 1329) |
St. Giles' Cathedral | Local government district | 486,120 | |
| Glasgow32 (Scots: Glesga) (Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu) |
7003149200000000000 city status has never been formally granted, accepted as city by ancient usage by the eighteenth century and confirmed in subsequent local government legislation (royal burgh 1492) |
St. Mungo's Cathedral | Local government district | 592,820 | |
| Inverness (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Nis) |
7003200000000000000 2000 | not applicable | none | 72,745 | |
| Perth (Scots: Pairth) (Scottish Gaelic: Peairt) |
7003201200000000000 2012 (city status had previously been held by the Royal Burgh of Perth, created in the twelfth century and abolished in 1975.) |
not applicable | none | 44,820 | |
| Stirling (Scots: Stirlin) (Scottish Gaelic: Sruighlea) |
7003200200000000000 2002 | not applicable | none | 33,710 |
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Famous quotes containing the word scotland:
“The “second sight” possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don’t wear trousers.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Four and twenty at her back
And they were a’ clad out in green;
Tho the King of Scotland had been there
The warst o’ them might hae been his Queen.
On we lap and awa we rade
Till we cam to yon bonny ha’
Whare the roof was o’ the beaten gold
And the floor was o’ the cristal a’.”
—Unknown. The Wee Wee Man (l. 21–28)
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
—James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)