Orkney Islands

**Orkney Islands**
	archipelago, county and council area in northern Scotland
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Instance of	archipelago; Scottish council area; registration county; lieutenancy area of Scotland; Scottish islands area; shire of Scotland; historic county of the United Kingdom;
Location	Scotland
Located in or next to body of water	North Sea;
Capital	Kirkwall;
Has part(s)	Mainland; Hoy; South Ronaldsay; Westray; Sanday;
Highest point	Ward Hill;
Population	22,270 (2019);
Area	988.7994 km² (2016);
Partially coincident with	Orkney Islands;
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	59° 00′ 00″ N, 3° 00′ 00″ W
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	Q100166; ISNI: 0000000405151318; VIAF ID: 129015040; GND ID: 4043881-8; Library of Congress authority ID: n81071458; NL CR AUT ID: ge322165; U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10045164; BabelNet ID: 00059535n; J9U ID: 987007566852305171; OpenStreetMap relation ID: 375982; TOID: 4000000074586652, 7000000000029961; Vision of Britain place ID: 17294; Gazetteer for Scotland place ID: counties/countyfirst20, councils/councilfirst30; GENUKI ID: sct/OKI; GSS code (2011): S12000023
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The Orkney Islands is a county of Scotland, a Lieutenancy area) and an archipelagoe. It forms one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. Orkney consists of about 200 small islands 16 kilometers north of Caithness in northern Scotland. The largest island in the group is known as "The Mainland"; about 20 are inhabited in total.

Aerial image of the Orkney Islands
Aerial Image of Scapa Flow
Hoy High Lighthouse, Graemsay
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