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Falkirk
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unitary authority council area of Scotland
Key facts
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Country
- Scotland
- Lieutenancy area
- Stirling and Falkirk
- Unitary authority
- 1 April 1996
- Type
- Council
- Body
- Falkirk Council
- Control
- No overall control
- Mps
- 3 MPs Brian Leishman ( L ) Euan Stainbank ( L ) Kirsteen Sullivan ( L )
- Msps
- 2 MSPs Michelle Thomson ( SNP ) Michael Matheson ( SNP )
- Total
- 115 sq mi (297 km )
- Rank
- 22nd
- Density
- 1,400/sq mi (539/km )
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( BST )
- Iso 3166 code
- GB-FAL
- Gss code
- S12000014
- Website
- falkirk .gov .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 146800
- Area
- 297.3656
- Official website
- www.falkirk.gov.uk
- Image
- 2007-07-04-06151 GreatBritain Falkirk.jpg
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- Commons category
- Falkirk (council area)
- catalog code
- 15
- carbon footprint
- 154954.43
- native label
- Falkirk
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Falkirk (/ˈfɔːlkərk/ FAWL-kurk; Scots: Fawkirk [ˈfɔːkɪrk]; Scottish Gaelic: An Eaglais Bhreac) is one of 32 unitary authority council areas of Scotland. It was formed on 1 April 1996 by way of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 from the exact boundaries of Falkirk District, one of three parts of the Central region created in 1975, which was abolished at that time. Prior to the 1975 reorganisation, the majority of the council area was part of the historic county of Stirlingshire, and a small part, namely Bo'ness and Blackness, was part of the former county of West Lothian.
The council area borders with North Lanarkshire, Stirling and West Lothian, and, across the Firth of Forth to the northeast, Clackmannanshire and Fife. The largest town is Falkirk; other settlements, most of which surround Falkirk within 6 miles (9.7 km) of its centre, include Bo'ness, Bonnybridge, Denny, Grangemouth, Larbert, Polmont, Shieldhill, Camelon and Stenhousemuir.
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