Administrative Boundary of Fife

About Fife

Fife is a council area in eastern Scotland occupying the peninsula between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. Covering approximately 1,325 square kilometres, Fife had a population of approximately 374,000 at the 2022 Census, and is traditionally known as the "Kingdom of Fife" from its historical status as a semi-autonomous Pictish and early Scottish territory. St Andrews: Home of Golf St Andrews is home to the University of St Andrews, founded in 1413 and the oldest university in Scotland and third-oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The town is universally recognised as the home of golf: the Old Course at St Andrews has been played over since at least the 15th century, and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, founded in 1754, remains one of the sport's governing authorities; the ruined St Andrews Cathedral, consecrated in 1318, was once the largest church in Scotland before its destruction during the Reformation. Falkland Palace and Dunfermline Abbey Falkland Palace, in the Lomond Hills, was a favourite hunting retreat of the Stewart monarchs and retains the oldest real tennis court still in use anywhere in the world, built for James V in 1539. Dunfermline, in western Fife, served as the effective capital of Scotland for several centuries; Dunfermline Abbey holds the tomb of Robert the Bruce and was also the birthplace of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The Forth Bridge, the cantilever railway bridge completed in 1890 linking Fife to Lothian, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015 and is now joined by the Forth Road Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing, opened in 2017. The East Neuk fishing villages of Anstruther, Crail, and Pittenweem preserve Fife's historic maritime character along its southern coast. GIS and Boundary Data The administrative boundary of Fife Council is available for free download in GeoJSON and KML formats, sourced from the OS Open Geography portal (Crown copyright 2024). Compatible with QGIS, ArcGIS, Mapbox, and Google Earth, the dataset supports golf heritage mapping, ecclesiastical history research, bridge engineering study, and demographic analysis across the Fife council area.

📍 Administrative boundary of Fife county