As someone from Scotland, I was looking at the shires under scotland, and found they are very incorrect.

As a brief overview, Scotland has an old "shire" system (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenancy_areas_of_Scotland ) and a new "county" system (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland ). Most things, such as local government, use the "county" system, but other things use the "shire" system. Either system individually would work but it seems neither were properly implemented.

Here is the list of "shires" as they appear on src:

Aberdeen Angus Argyll Ayr Banffshire Berwick Bute Caithness Clackmannan Cromarty Dumfries Dunbarton East Lothian Fife Inverness Kincardineshire Kinross Kirkcudbright Lanark Midlothian Moray Nairn Orkney Peebles Perth Renfrew Ross Roxburgh Selkirk Shetland Stirling Sutherland Westlothian Wigtown

This more closely matches the "shire" list I linked, but there are still weird innaccuracies.

Here are all the inaccuracies I found, if the "shire list" is taken to be correct. There may well be more mistakes that I missed.

• Roxburgh, Berwick, Selkirk, Renfrew, Ayr, Dunbarton, Lanark, and Kirkcudbright should all be followed by "shire" - eg Roxburghshire. This makes a big difference - Berwickshire is an area in southern Scotland, Berwick is a town that is not even in Scotland.

• Perth should be "Perth and Kinross"

• Argyll and Bute should be combined to "Argyll and Bute"

• Ross and Cromarty should be combined to "Ross and Cromarty"

• Stirling should be "Stirling and Falkirk"

• There is only "Aberdeen", there should be "Aberdeen" (the city) and "Aberdeenshire" (an area)

• Glasgow, Dundee, and Edinburgh, some of the largest cities in Scotland, aren't mentioned at all.

At this point, I'd consider just nuking it all and starting again. There are more issues, as this seems to be a mishmash of multiple lists. I would recommend using the "council areas" from ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland ) as they are modern and not from 1790.

I will add that at the moment it is so bad that despite living in Scotland, I (and over 20% of Scotland's population) do not actually live in any of the "shires" listed on src.

I do not live in any of the shires either. Src needs to step up their game.

@SurprisedPika that's an issue in a lot of regions on src, not including the largest cities in a country/subdivision. Would be nice if we could get a user submitted list of locations, for example, the cities listed for Texas are scarce, and the largest cities (Dallas, San Antonio, Houston) aren't even listed, and each have a pop over 1 million.