Scotland (Empires of Liberty)

Scotland (Scots: Alba; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is one of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It has a population of 6,361,632 and an area of 30,090 mi2 (77,933 km2).

Languages
Scots language has been spoken in Scotland for centuries, though ebbed in the 18th and early 19th centuries. With the translation of the King James Bible into Scots in 1615, however, an early orthographic and grammatical standard for Scots was created that holds by and large to this day. There are approximately 1.8 million Scots speakers today, with the language being the language of instruction in schools, the language of commerce, and the language of local government in several counties in Scotland: Aberdeen, Ayr, Banff, Kincardine, Moray, Nairn, Wigtown; and on the Outer Hebrides islands.

Scottish Gaelic is spoken by 542,000 people, mainly in the counties of Argyll, Bute, Caithness, Inverness, Ross and Cromarty, and Sutherland. It is the language of instruction, commerce, and local government.