Stirlin (cooncil area)

Stirling
Stirling; Sruighlea; Stirling
Admin HQ	Stirlin
Govrenment
• Bodi	Stirlin Cooncil
• Control	SNP + Lab (cooncil NOC)
• MPs	Stephen Kerr;
• MSPs	Keith Brown*Bruce Crawford;
Area
• Total	2,186 km2 (844 sq mi)
Area rank	Ranked 9th
Population (mid-2016 est.)
• Total	93,800
• Rank	Rankit 24th
• Density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
ONS code	S12000030
ISO 3166 code	GB-STG
Website	www.stirling.gov.uk

Coordinates: 56°30′N 4°00′W / 56.5°N 4.0°W / 56.5; -4.0

Stirlin (Inglis: Stirling, Scots Gaelic: Sruighlea) is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It ligs in the middil o Scotland an kivers maist o the umwhyl coontie o Stirlinshire (athoot Fawkirk) an the sooth-wastren bit o the umwhyl coontie o Perthshire. The cooncil area's heidsteid is the toun o Stirlin.

The cooncil area haes mairches wi Clackmannanshire (til the eist), Fawkirk (til the sooth-eist), Perth an Kinross (til the north an nor'eist), Argyll an Bute (til the north an nor'wast), an baith East an Wast Dunbartonshire til the soothwast.

Maist o the population byds in the area's sootheist nuik, in the toun o Stirlin an in the surroondin Lawland touns. The ither 30% o the population is skailt athort the laundwart, maistlins Hieland kintra til the north.