The Mainland is the main island of Shetland, Scotland.

It has an area of 374 sq mi (970 km2), making it the third-largest Scottish island and the fifth largest of the British Isles after Great Britain, Ireland, Lewis and Harris and Skye.

Mainland is the second most populous of the Scottish islands (only surpassed by Lewis and Harris), and had 18,765 residents in 2011[3] compared to 17,550 in 2001.

[5] The mainland can be broadly divided into four sections:

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