Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross Peairt agus Ceann Rois

Location

Geography
Area	Ranked 5th
- Total	5,286 km²
- % Water	?
Admin HQ	Perth
ISO 3166-2	GB-PKN
ONS code	00RB
Demographics
Population	Ranked 14th
- Total (2006 )	140,200
- Density	27 /km² (70 /sq mi)
Politics
Perth & Kinross Council http://www.pkc.gov.uk/
Control	Scottish National Party/Liberal Democrat
MPs	Gordon Banks, Labour Peter Wishart, Scottish National Party
MSPs	Keith Brown, Scottish National Party Roseanna Cunningham, Scottish National Party John Swinney, Scottish National Party Andrew Welsh, Scottish National Party

Perth and Kinross (Peairt agus Ceann Rois in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas. Perth is the administrative centre. It corresponds broadly, but not exactly, with the former counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire.

Perthshire and Kinross-shire had a joint county council from 1929 until 1975. The area was created a single district in 1975, in the Tayside region, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, and then reconsituted as a unitary authority (with a minor boundary adjustment) in 1996, by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

The county has the slogan:"Scotland's First Fairtrade County"