Highlands and Islands

The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied.

This area consisted of eight counties of Scotland: Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) uses a broader definition also used at Eurostat's NUTS level 2, and there has been a Highlands and Islands electoral region of the Scottish Parliament since 1999.

[6] The restrictions required by the worldwide pandemic increased unemployment in the Highlands and Islands in summer 2020 to 5.7%; that was significantly higher than the 2.4 per cent in 2019.

The rates were said to be highest in "Lochaber, Skye and Wester Ross and Argyll and the Islands".

[10] As of 2024, the MPs representing the Highlands and Islands areas are Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland), Angus Macdonald (Inverness, Skye, and West Ross-shire), and Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland, and Easter Ross) all of whom are Scottish Liberal Democrats.