East Lothian

council area of Scotland; lieutenancy area

AI overview

East Lothian is a council area and official administrative region in Scotland, located in the southeastern part of the country. It serves as both a local government district and a lieutenancy area, making it an important administrative division within Scotland's governance structure.

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Key facts

Sovereign state: United Kingdom
Country: Scotland
Unitary authority: 1 April 1996
Administrative hq: Haddington Town House
Type: Council
Body: East Lothian Council
Control: No overall control
Mps: 2 MPs Douglas Alexander ( L ) Chris Murray ( L )
Msps: 2 MSPs Colin Beattie ( SNP ) Paul McLennan ( SNP )
Total: 262 sq mi (679 km )
Rank: 18th
Density: 440/sq mi (170/km )
Time zone: UTC+0 ( GMT )
Summer dst: UTC+1 ( BST )
Iso 3166 code: GB-ELN
Gss code: S12000010
Website: eastlothian .gov .uk

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Encyclopedic overview

East Lothian (/ˈloʊðiən/; Scots: Aest Lowden; Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as an historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.

In 1975, the historic county was incorporated for local government purposes into Lothian Region as East Lothian District, with some slight alterations of its boundaries. The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 later created East Lothian as one of 32 modern council areas. East Lothian lies south of the Firth of Forth in the eastern central Lowlands of Scotland. It borders Edinburgh to the west, Midlothian to the south-west and the Scottish Borders to the south. Its administrative centre and former county town is Haddington while the largest town is Musselburgh.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “East Lothian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.