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Strathclyde was one of the regional council areas of Scotland from 1974 to 1996. It was named after the Kingdom of Strathclyde, which covered broadly the same area.
Its largest city was Glasgow, and it was the largest region, with a population in excess of 2 million and an area stretching from the Highlands to the Southern Uplands. The politics of the region were by in large dominated by the Labour Party.
The regional tier of government was abolished in 1996 and its responsibilities merged with the District Councils to create Unitary Authorities (of which there are 32 in Scotland). The name still remains in geographic use.
The unitary authorities covering the area of Strathclyde are
- Argyll and Bute
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- City of Glasgow
- Inverclyde
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Renfrewshire
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- West Dunbartonshire
