Fife

Fife Fìobha
Coordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°W / 56.25000; -3.20000Coordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°W / 56.25000; -3.20000
Admin HQ	Glenrothes (umwhile Cupar)[1]
Govrenment
• Bodi	Fife Cooncil
• Control	SNP + Lab (cooncil NOC)
• MPs	Douglas Chapman Stephen Gethins Peter Grant Lesley Laird
• MSPs	Annabelle Ewing Jenny Gilruth Willie Rennie Shirley-Anne Somerville David Torrance
Area
• Total	1325 km2 (512 sq mi)
Area rank	Ranked 13t
Population  (mid-2016 est.)
• Total	370,300
• Rank	Rankit 3rd
• Density	279/km2 (720/sq mi)
ONS code	S12000015
ISO 3166 code	GB-FIF
Website	www.fife.gov.uk

Fife (Scots Gaelic: Fìobh) is aen o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It liys atween the Firth o Tay an the Firth o Forth. It's a tradietional coontie o Scotland, an a lieutenancie area tui.

Fife wis aen o the Pectish kinriks an is ey kent as the Kinrik o Fife. Fife maistliyk taks its naem frae Fib or Fif, a 7t centurie Pectish king. He wis aen o the seivin sons o Cruithne, a warrior king at ruled ower a wiyd erria o auncient Scotland.

Frae 1975 til 1996 Fife wis sindert intil thrie destriks: Dunfaurlin, Kirkcaudie, an North-Eist Fife. Sin 1996 the wark o thae destrik cooncils haes been cairrit oot bi Fife Cooncil.

1. ↑ Complete Atlas of the British Isles. Readers' Digest. 1965. p. 218.