South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom


🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 South Lanarkshire (Sooth Lanrikshire; Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas) is one of 32 unitary authorities of Scotland. It borders the south-east of the City of Glasgow and contains some of Greater Glasgow's suburban towns, also containing many rural towns and villages. It also shares borders with Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, the Scottish Borders and West Lothian. It includes most of the historic county of Lanarkshire.

South Lanarkshire is served by the South Lanarkshire Council. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton, has 16,000 employees, and a budget of almost £1bn.

The large and varied geographical territory takes in rural and upland areas, market towns such as Lanark, Strathaven and Carluke, the urban burghs of Rutherglen, Cambuslang, and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town.

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The South Lanarkshire District has a population of over 319,020 people. For the location of South Lanarkshire see: Hamilton.

To set up a UBI Lab for South Lanarkshire see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork

Twin Towns, Sister Cities South Lanarkshire has links with:

🇩🇪 Hemmingen, Germany
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