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Fawkirk (cooncil area)

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Coordinates: 55°58′34″N 3°47′49″W / 55.976°N 3.797°W / 55.976; -3.797

Fawkirk

Falkirk
An Eaglais Bhreac
Admin HQFawkirk
Govrenment
 • BodiFalkirk Cooncil
 • ControlSNP minority (cooncil NOC)
 • MPs
 • MSPs
Area
 • Total297.4 km2 (114.8 sq mi)
Area rankRanked 22nd
Population
 (mid-2016 est.)
 • Total159,400
 • RankRankit 11th
 • Density535/km2 (1,390/sq mi)
ONS codeS12000014
ISO 3166 codeGB-FAL
Websitewww.falkirk.gov.uk

Fawkirk Cooncil Area (Inglis: Falkirk Council Area, Scots Gaelic: Comhairle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It haes mairches wi North Lanrikshire til the soothwast, Stirlin til the nor'wast, Wast Lowden til the sootheist an, athort the Firth o Forth til the nor'eist, Fife an Clackmannanshire. The cooncil area wis shapit on 1 Aprile 1996 frae the same mairches o Fawkirk Destrik Cooncil bi wey o the Local Govrenment etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Afore 1975 maist o the cooncil area wis pairt o the coontie o Stirlinshire an a wee pairt, namelie Bo'ness an Blackness, wis pairt o the umwhyl coontie o Wast Lowden.

Sattilments

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Bo'ness Area
Braes Area
Denny, Bonnybridge & Banknock Area
Fawkirk touns
Fawkirk Area
Grangemooth Area
Larbert & Stenhoussmuir Area

References

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Cooncil areas o Scotland
naitional Banner o Scotland

Ceity o Aiberdeen | Aiberdeenshire | Angus | Argyll an Bute | Clackmannanshire | Dumfries an Gallowa | Ceetie o Dundee | East Ayrshire | East Dunbartonshire | East Lowden | East Renfrewshire | Edinburgh | Fawkirk | Fife | Ceetie o Glesga | Hieland | Inverclyde | The Mairches | Midlowden | Moray | North Ayrshire | North Lanrikshire | Orkney | Perth an Kinross | Renfrewshire | Shetland | Sooth Ayrshire | Sooth Lanrikshire | Stirlin | Wast Dunbartonshire | Wast Lowden | The Waster Isles