Cities
Traditionally cities were parts of larger counties. Edinburgh was in Midlothian, Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, and Glasgow in Lanarkshire (although parts of greater Glasgow extended into other counties, e.g. Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire.
| County | County town | Alternative forms and Gaelic name | Area (acres) | Area (km²) | Population | Population Density (per km2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Glasgow | Glasgow | Glaschu, Glesca, Glasgie | 34,647 | 140.21 | 897,484 | 6,401.00 |
| City of Edinburgh | Edinburgh | Dun Eideann, Embra, Edina, Dunedin, Auld Reekie | 32,415 | 131.17 | 453,585 | 3,457.99 |
| City of Dundee | Dundee | Dun De | 12,229 | 49.48 | 182,204 | 3,682.33 |
| City of Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Obar Dheathain, Aiberdein | 16,715 | 67.64 | 182,071 | 2,691.77 |
Read more about this topic: List Of Counties Of Scotland 1890-1975
Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“We are in danger ... of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don’t want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)