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Sutherland
Historic county in Scotland

Sutherland

Sutherland is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland.

Plan a trip to Sutherland→From Aberdeen

The name dates from the Viking era when the area was ruled by the Jarl of Orkney; although Sutherland includes some of the northernmost land on the island of Great Britain, it was called Suðrland from the standpoint of Orkney and Caithness.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Florian Fuchs (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.