Sutherland or even Sutherlandshire, is a traditional county in the north of Scotland, bordering on Caithness to the north & each Ross-shire and Cromartyshire to the south.

Between 1890-1975 the county was administered by the administrative county of Sutherland. Between 1975-1996 the county was divided between the so fresh areas of Sutherland District and Caithness District, with a Strathnaver area of the county becoming a a portion of Caithness District (which involved as well the front yard of the traditional county of Caithness). Still, shortly fallowing its creation a boundary between a territory wequally redrawn to watch that between a traditional counties, as shown on the map hereby.

a territorial dominion belonged to a both-tier patterns of local government, by using local government functions divided between a territorial dominion & the Highland region. Within 1996 the region beame the unitary authority and the territory was abolished.

Sutherland is now utilized as a registration county, a Lieutenancy area as well as for general geographical purposes.

A county is however super sparsely populated. Its sole burgh is the county town, Dornoch. More settlements include Lairg, Brora, Durness, Tongue, Golspie, Helmsdale, Lochinver and Kinlochbervie.

Sutherland constituency

A Sutherland constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom represented essentially a traditional county from either 1708 to 1918. At a equivalent period nonetheless a shire town of Dornoch was represented as a component of the Northern Burghs constituency.

Within 1918 a Sutherl& constituency and Dornoch were merged into a so newly constituency of Caithness and Sutherland. Within 1997 Caithness and Sutherland was merged into Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

A Scottish Parliament constituency of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was created in 1999 and now has boundaries slighly different from either victims of the Home of Commons constituency. In the Scottish Parliament Sutherland is represented also when section of the Highlands and Islands.

Footnotes

Sutherland derives from either the Norse perception of the land as 'southern' (Suðrland meaning South). (A Norse referred likewise to the Hebrides, as a "Southern Isles", southern by having respect to the "Northern Isles" of Orkney and Shetland).

Sutherland has 2 independent list in the county's endemic Scottish Gaelic: Cataibh may be utilized for the altogether county, however tended historically to use south east, & Dùthaich MhicAoidh (MacKay United states) which was utilized for the northward west, occasionally known as Reay United states around English. Cataibh may be see when meaning l& of a Cat population and the Cat element appears when Cait within Caithness. A Scottish Gaelic title for Caithness, still, is Gallaibh, meaning land of the foreigner or of the Norse.