• The head of the Scottish Government is the first minister of Scotland, who is supported by the deputy first minister of Scotland.
  • Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. ... For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Scottish history.
  • Edinburgh Castle is Scotland's main attraction. It stands in the city center on the Castle Mountain (it is a former volcano, extinct tens of thousands of years ago).
  • Category:Scotland. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search. ... Executive body. Scottish Government.
  • There are many people of Italian and Polish extraction. People raised in Scotland will often identify as Scottish, regardless of non-Scottish ancestry.
  • Scotland has 3 officially recognised languages: English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic, with just one per cent of the population using the last.
  • The Scottish National party, the SNP, is in government in the Parliament of Scotland, and has 48 of the 58 Scottish MPs in the UK parliament in London.
  • Spoken languages are English, Scots (spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster), and Scottish Gaelic (a Celtic language native to Scotland).
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