The Queen's View, Loch Tummel
Perth and Kinross located in North East Scotland. The south of Perth and Kinross still protrudes into the Central lowland belt and adjoins there Fife in the east and south and Stirlingshire in the southwest. The northern half of Perth and Kinross is already in the Highlands and goes west and northwest into the Central Highlands and north to the Cairngorms above. Borders to the northeast Angus at.
Map of Perth and Kinross
Regions
- Kinross - the southernmost part of the region, around the 1 Loch Leven;
- Ochill Hills - a small promontory of the Highlands that makes it up to 721 m on the Ben Cleuch;
- Strathearn - Located between the Ochills and the Highlands with the famous Gleneagles golf course (and hotel);
- Gowrie - Central part of the region around the city of Perth with fertile soils, which have made this part of the country a central cultural landscape of Scotland since the Middle Ages;
- Atholl - the historical concept of landscape includes the part of the region in the Highlands around Loch Tay, Glen Lyon, Pitlochry to Rannoch and Blair Atholl. Loch Tay and the River Tay are the closest region to Edinburgh, the one with bare mountains, small roads, clear waters and numerous Munros shows clear Highland character.
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background
The Perth and Kinross region is geographically close to the center of Scotland. While this region is still quite densely populated, an increasingly sparsely populated region begins to the northwest, the Highlands.
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Tourist Attractions
- Blair Castle, Perthshire.
