Fife

Fife Fìobha
Coordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W
Admin HQ	Glenrothes (umwhile Cupar)
Govrenment
• Bodi	Fife Cooncil
• Control	SNP + Lab (cooncil NOC)
• MPs	Douglas Chapman Stephen Gethins Peter Grant Lesley Laird
• MSPs	Annabelle Ewing Jenny Gilruth Willie Rennie Shirley-Anne Somerville David Torrance
Area
• Total	1325 km2 (512 sq mi)
Area rank	Ranked 13t
Population  (mid-2016 est.)
• Total	370,300
• Rank	Rankit 3rd
• Density	279/km2 (720/sq mi)
ONS code	S12000015
ISO 3166 code	GB-FIF
Website	www.fife.gov.uk

Fife (Scots Gaelic: Fìobh) is aen o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It liys atween the Firth o Tay an the Firth o Forth. It's a tradietional coontie o Scotland, an a lieutenancie area tui.

Fife wis aen o the Pectish kinriks an is ey kent as the Kinrik o Fife. Fife maistliyk taks its naem frae Fib or Fif, a 7t centurie Pectish king. He wis aen o the seivin sons o Cruithne, a warrior king at ruled ower a wiyd erria o auncient Scotland.

Frae 1975 til 1996 Fife wis sindert intil thrie destriks: Dunfaurlin, Kirkcaudie, an North-Eist Fife. Sin 1996 the wark o thae destrik cooncils haes been cairrit oot bi Fife Cooncil.

Touns an vielages

Cupar tuik ower as coontie toun frae The Crail in the aerlie 13t centurie. Glenrothes haes been the heidtoun sin 1975. Fife's thrie mukkil touns is – Kirkcaudie, Dunfaurlin an Glenrothes. Gaun bi the 2006 estimate, Kirkcaudie is the maist biggest, wi aboot 48,108 fowk biydan thaerawa. The biggest sattilment bi erria is Glenrothes.

The niest mukkil touns bi population is St Andras, Dawgety Bay, Rosyth, Methil an Coudenbeith.

The laev o Fife is maed up o smauer touns lik

• Inverkeithin,
• Kincairdin,
• Ainster,
• Lochgelly,
• Bruntisland,
• Leevin,
• Neeburgh,
• Tayport
• Cupar

an vielages lik Kinglassie, Kinghorn, Elie, Auchtertool, Crossgates an Bingry.