Lanarkshire
Lanarkshire is an ancient county in Scotland the largest city being Glasgow, although the county town is Lanark itself. Hamilton is another large connurbation. A very large county (879 square miles), it has borders with Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), Midlothian, Peeblesshire, Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, and Dumfriesshire. Its principal artery is the River Clyde. It was once the most highly industrialized county in Scotland, producing coal, iron and steel, textiles, ship-building, etc. It is also the most densely populated county in Scotland. Its population in 1935 was 1,585,968.[1]
Today Lanarkshire itself has a population of one million. In 1950, the population of Glasgow was 1,755,170. Glasgow's 2024 population is now estimated at 1,708,147.[2]
Southern Lanarkshire is largely rural. The largest town in this part of Lanarkshire is Hamilton, with a population of 55,000.
Sources
- ↑ Odham's Press Ltd., The New Pictorial Atlas of the World, with gazetteer, London, 1935, pps:27 & 263.
- ↑ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/glasgow-population
