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Orkney
Orkney Islands
Continuity: Real world
Aliases: Orkney
Category: Island
Continent: Europe
Country: Scotland

The Orkney Islands an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is ten miles (16 km) north of the coast of Caithness and has about seventy islands, of which twenty are inhabited. The largest island, the Mainland, and has an area of 523 square kilometres (202 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest Scottish island and the tenth-largest island in the British Isles. Orkney's largest settlement, and also its administrative centre, is Kirkwall.

Orkney is one of the thirty-two council areas of Scotland, as well as a constituency of the Scottish Parliament, a lieutenancy area, and an historic county. The local council is Orkney Islands Council, one of only three councils in Scotland with a majority of elected members who are independents.

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