The Highland Council area (Sgìre Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd[1] in Gaelic, pronounced [s̪g̊ʲiːɾʲə kÉ”.əɾlÉ™ nÉ™ g̊ɛː.əɫ̪d̪̊əxgÌŠ]) is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute.

Their councils, and those of Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. The Highland area covers most of the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the former counties of Inverness-shire and Ross and Cromarty, all of Sutherland, Caithness and Nairnshire, and small parts of Argyll and Moray.