Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the ____. It contains nearly ____ of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of ____ and more than ____ ____ islands, principally in the archipelagos of the ____ and the Northern Isles. To the south-east, Scotland has its ____ land border, which is 96 miles (154 km) long and shared with England; the country is surrounded by the ____ to the north and west, the ____ to the north-east and east, and the ____ to the south. The population in ____ was 5,436,600 and accounts for 8% of the population of the UK. ____ is the capital and ____ is the largest of the cities of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland emerged in the ____th century. In ____03, James VI inherited England and Ireland, forming a personal union of the three kingdoms. On 1 May ____07 Scotland and England combined to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain, with the Parliament of Scotland subsumed into the Parliament of Great Britain. In ____99 a Scottish Parliament was re-established, and has devolved authority over many areas of domestic policy. The country has a distinct legal system, educational system, and religious history from the rest of the UK, which have all contributed to the continuation of Scottish culture and national identity within the United Kingdom. Scottish English and Scots are the most widely spoken languages in the country. Scottish Gaelic speakers can be found all over Scotland, however the language is largely spoken natively by communities within the Hebrides. The number of Gaelic speakers numbers less than ____% of the total population. The mainland of Scotland is broadly divided into three regions: the ____, a ____ region in the ____ and north-west; the ____, a ____ ____ across the ____ of the country; and the ____, a ____ region along the ____ border. The Highlands are the ____ mountainous region of the UK and contain its highest ____, ____, at 4,413 feet (1,345 m). The region also contains many ____, called ____; the term is also applied to the many ____ ____ along the country's deeply ____ western coastline. The geography of the many ____ is varied. Some, such as ____, are noted for their mountainous terrain, while the likes of Tiree and Coll are much flatter. Scotland has ____ officially recognised languages: ____, ____, and ____. Scottish Standard English, a variety of English as spoken in Scotland, is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with broad Scots at the other. Scottish Standard English may have been influenced to varying degrees by Scots. The 2011 census indicated that ____% of the population had "no skills in Scots". Others speak ____ English. ____ is mostly spoken in the ____, where a large proportion of people still speak it. Nationally, its use is confined to 1% of the population. The number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland ____ from ____ in ____81 to ____ in 2008. Immigration since World War II has given Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee small South Asian communities. In 20____, there were an estimated ____ ethnically Pakistani people living in Scotland, making them the largest ____ ethnic group. Since the enlargement of the ____ Union more people from Central and ____ Europe have moved to Scotland, and the ____11 census indicated that ____ ____ live there. There are many ____ people with Scottish ancestry living ____ ____ the total population of Scotland. In the ____ Census, ____ million ____ self-reported some degree of ____ descent. ____ ____ population is mainly of lowland Scottish descent, and it is estimated that there are more than ____ ____ descendants of the ____ migration now living in the ____. In ____, the ____ community accounts for 4.7 million people. ____ ____% of the original ____ settler population of ____ came from ____.

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