Fife

Fife
*Fiobha*
Fife ; Fiobha
	Coordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°W Coordinates : 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°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 km 2 (512 sq mi)
Area rank	Ranked 13t
Population (mid-2016 est.)
? Total	370,300
? Rank	Rankit 3rd
? Density	279/km 2 (720/sq mi)
ONS code	S12000015
ISO 3166 code	GB-FIF
Website	www .fife .gov .uk

Fife ( Scots Gaelic : Fiobh ) 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 [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

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. ^[2] 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

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

Referenses [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

↑ Complete Atlas of the British Isles . Readers' Digest. 1965. p. 218.
↑ "Population Estimates for Towns and Villages in Fife" (PDF) . Fife Council. Mairch 2008 . Retrieved 17 August 2009 . ^{[
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Cooncil areas o Scotland

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[Readers'_Digest-1] Complete Atlas of the British Isles . Readers' Digest. 1965. p. 218.

[Population_Estimates-2] "Population Estimates for Towns and Villages in Fife" (PDF) . Fife Council. Mairch 2008 . Retrieved 17 August 2009 . ^{[
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