This is a list of counties in Scotland, ordered by area as at the 1951 census.
{|class="wikitable"
!Rank
!County
!Area
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|1
|Inverness-shire
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|2
|Argyllshire
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|3
|Ross and Cromarty
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|4
|Perthshire
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|5
|Sutherland
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|6
|Aberdeenshire
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|7
|Ayrshire
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|8
|Dumfriesshire
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|-
|9
|Kirkcudbrightshire
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|10
|Angus
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|-
|11
|Lanarkshire
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|12
|Caithness
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|13
|Roxburghshire
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|14
|Banffshire
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|15
|Zetland
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|16
|Fife
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|17
|Wigtownshire
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|18
|Moray
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|19
|Berwickshire
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|-
|20
|Stirlingshire
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|21
|Kincardineshire
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|22
|Orkney
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|23
|Peeblesshire
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|24
|Midlothian
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|-
|25
|Selkirkshire
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|-
|26
|East Lothian
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|27
|Dunbartonshire
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|-
|28
|Renfrewshire
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|29
|Bute
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|30
|Nairnshire