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Dumfries and Galloway

council area, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Dumfries and Galloway, council area of southwestern Scotland whose coast borders the Solway Firth, the Irish Sea, and the North Channel. It encompasses the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire and a small section of Ayrshire in the west. The council area extends eastward from the Rhins—a hammer-shaped peninsula that includes the Mull of Galloway, the most southerly point in Scotland—to take in the hills and moors of Galloway Forest Park in the north...

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