Perthshire

Perthshire
Historic county
Perthshire within Scotland
Area
• 1975	2,528 sq mi (6,550 km2) (5th)
History
• Succeeded by	Tayside Region
Status	Local government county (until 1975) Land registration county (1868–)
Chapman code	PER
Government
• HQ	Perth (county town and administrative centre)
• Motto	Pro Lege et Libertate ('For Law and Liberty')
Coat of arms of the county council

Perthshire (locally: [ˈpɛrθʃər]^ⓘ; Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south; it borders the counties of Inverness-shire and Aberdeenshire to the north, Angus to the east, Fife, Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire to the south and Argyllshire to the west.

Perthshire is known as the "big county", or "the Shire", due to its roundness and status as the fourth largest historic county in Scotland. It has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands.