Dunfermline (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain, Scots: Dunfaurlin) was a local government district in the Fife region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996, lying to the south-west of the regional capital Glenrothes.

[1] As its name suggests, the district was centred on Dunfermline, an important royal burgh in the historic county of Fife.

The district was created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government across mainland Scotland comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts.

The district covered the whole area of six former districts and part of two others from the historic county of Fife, which were all abolished at the same time:[2] Apart from the main built-up area of Dunfermline itself, the district therefore also included port towns on the Firth of Forth, other coastal villages and numerous inland settlements west of Dunfermline, plus further territory east of the M90 motorway including Kelty, the Benarty villages and the towns of Cowdenbeath and Lochgelly.

[3] Similar boundaries as those of Dunfermline district have since been re-used for some purposes such as local economic planning,[4] tourism,[5] and in the post-2005 Dunfermline and West Fife (UK Parliament constituency), although rarely including the settlements east of the M90.