Talk:List of Scottish council areas by area

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Data from OpenStreetMap

Here's some figures I just calculated from OSM today:

Rank	Council Name	Area (km²)
1	Highland	26,032.43
2	Argyll	7,125.67
3	Dumfries and Galloway	6,648.26
4	Aberdeenshire	6,311.67
5	Perth and Kinross	5,395.21
6	Scottish Borders	4,724.09
7	Moray	2,247.16
8	Stirling Council	2,244.71
9	Angus	2,195.06
10	Isle of Lewis	2,143.65
11	South Lanarkshire	1,766.66
12	Shetland	1,436.93
13	Fife	1,368.02
14	East Ayrshire	1,264.82
15	South Ayrshire	1,228.01
16	Orkney	1,015.58
17	North Ayrshire	899.18
18	East Lothian	697.89
19	North Lanarkshire	470.21
20	West Lothian	429.79
21	Midlothian	353.84
22	Falkirk Council	313.60
23	City of Edinburgh	271.87
24	Renfrewshire	268.47
25	Aberdeen City	186.17
26	West Dunbartonshire	181.95
27	Glasgow City	175.67
28	East Dunbartonshire	173.72
29	East Renfrewshire	173.02
30	Inverclyde	172.76
31	Clackmannanshire	163.19
32	Dundee City	61.98

These agree reasonably well, apart from Na h-Eileanan Siar, which isn't correctly mapped (Lewis is shown instead) and West Dunbartonshire turns out a bit bigger than claimed here. I don't know whether that's a mapping error, a Wikipedia error (where's the citations for this page?) or a genuine change. Coastal boundaries tend to be a problem, as OSM uses the high-tide line instead of the low-tide line for many of the counties.

--Streapadair (talk) 15:36, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why does this article exist?

Why does this article exist? It contains only one table, which (along with List of Scottish council areas by population and List of Scottish council areas by population density) can easily be combined into one - and guess what, they have been, at Subdivisions of Scotland#Council areas. I propose that all three of these articles either be redirected to the Subdivisions article under WP:OVERLAP or at least merged into one article. Having three for these basic statistics is nonsense. Crowsus (talk) 11:31, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]