Nairnshire

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County of Nairn
Geography
Area - Total	Ranked 31st 127,905 acres (518 km²)
County town	Nairn
Chapman code	NAI

The County of Nairn (Siorrachd Inbhir Narann in Gaelic) is one of the registration counties of Scotland, centred around the town of Nairn. It has a northern coastline onto the Moray Firth. It was also in use as a local government county until 1975, and was then sometimes called Nairnshire.

The county had a number of exclaves in other counties, the most considerable of which was situated some distance away from the bulk of the county of Nairn, in Inverness-shire. Another sizable portion existed in Ross-shire, around the village of Urquhart, on the Black Isle. Other, smaller, detached parts existed in Morayshire (not shown on map due to their small size).

Under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, these detached parts became part of their host territorities, and county councils were created. The Nairnshire County Council functioned until 1975, when the area of the local government county became the Nairn district of the Highland region, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The area of the region became the unitary Highland council area in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.