| Perth and Kinross Pairth an Kinross Peairt agus Ceann Rois |
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| Location | |
| Geography | |
| Area | Ranked 5th |
| - Total | 5,286 km2 (2,041 sq mi) |
| Admin HQ | Perth |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-PKN |
| ONS code | 00RB |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Ranked 13th |
| - Total (2005) | 147,800 |
| - Density | 28 / km² |
| Politics | |
Perth & Kinross Council |
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| Control | Scottish National Party/Liberal Democrat |
| MPs | |
| MSPs |
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Perth and Kinross (Scots: Pairth an Kinross, Scottish Gaelic: Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of 32 council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas. Perth is the administrative centre. It corresponds broadly, but not exactly, with the former counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire.
Perthshire and Kinross-shire had a joint county council from 1929 until 1975. The area was created a single district in 1975, in the Tayside region, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, and then reconstituted as a unitary authority (with a minor boundary adjustment) in 1996, by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
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| Party | Councillors | |
| Scottish National Party | 18 | |
| Conservative | 12 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 8 | |
| Labour | 3 |
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