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THE BRITISH EMPIRE -.—UNITED KINGDOM
2. Scotland.
Area 29,796 square miles, including its islands, 186 in number, but ex- cluding inland water 609 square miles. , , , , , ^^,. .
Population (including military in the barracks and seamen on boaid vessels in the harbours) at the dates of the several censuses :-
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Date of Enumeration
1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851
Population
1,608,420 1.805,864 2,091,521 2,364,386 2,620,184 2,888,742
Pop. per sq. mile
Date of Enumeration
54 60 70 79 88 97
1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Population
3,062,294 3,360,018 3,735,573 4,025,647 4,472,103 4,760,904
Pop. per sq. mile
100 113 125 135 150 IGO
There are 33 civil counties, grouped under eight geographical divisions as follows : —
I. Northern.
1. Shetland
2. Orkney
3. Caithness
4. Sutherland
II. North-Western.
5. Ross and Cromarty
6. Inverness
III. North- E as Leni.
7. Nairn
8. Elgin (or Moray) .
9. Banff
10. Aberdeen
11. Kincardine
IV. East-Midland.
12. Forfar
13. Perth
14. Fife ....
15. Kinross .
16. Clackmannan .
V. West-Midland.
17. Stirling .
18. Duniharton Argyll Bute
VI. South-West em. Renfrew . Ayr .... Lanark
VII. Sonth-Eastcrn. Linlithgow
•Edinburgh
26. Haddington .
27. Berwick .
28. Peebles .
29. Selkirk .
19.
20.
2L 22. 23.
24. 25.
Area in
Statute
Acx-es
352,810
240,347
438,833
1,297,914
1,977,248 2,695,094
104,252 304,931 403,053 1.261,521 244,482
559,037 1,595,802
322,844 52,410 34,927
288,842
157,433
1,990,472
139,658
153,332
724,523 562,821
76,861 234,325 170,971 292,535 222,240 170,793
Population
1901
28,166 28,699 33,870 21,440
1911
27,911 25,897 32,010 20,179
0-9 9-8 5-5 5-9
70,450
77,364
+
1-2
90,104 1
87,272
—
3 1
9,291
9,319
4-
0-3
44,800
43,427
-
3-1
61,488 1
61,402
—
0-5
304.439 1
312,177
-f
2-5
40,923
41,008
+
0-2
284,082
281,417
-
0-9
123,283
124,342
+
0-9
218,840
267,739
+
22-3
6,981
7,527
+
VS
32,029
31,121
—
2-8
142,291
160,991
+ 13-1
113,805
139,831
-f 22-8
73,642
70,902
—
3-V
18,787
18,186
-'
3-2
2«iS,980
314,552
+ 16-9
254,468
268,337
+
5-5
1,339,327
1,447,034
+
8-0
65,708
80,155
-f 22
488,796
507,1366
+
3-9
38,665
43,254
-\- 11-9
30,824
29,643
-
3-6
15,066
- 15,258
+
l-i
23,356
1 24,601
+
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