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- Administrative centre Dumfries
- Chapman County Code - DFS
- Gaelic Name iorrachd Dhùn Phris
- Famous for:
- Landmarks and Places of Interest
- Area 2,753 sq. km (1,063 sq. miles)
- Population
- Succeeded by Today it forms part of the Region of the Dumfries and Galloway council area.
- County Flower -
Dumfries-shire (Anglicised), Dumfries or the County of Dumfries is a registration county of Scotland. It had Kirkcudbrightshire to the west, Ayrshire to the north-west, Lanarkshire, Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire to the north, and Roxburghshire to the east. To the south was the coast of the Solway Firth, and across the English border Cumberland.
Original subdivisions
- Annandale,
- Eskdale,
- Dumfries and Galloway and
- Nithsdale.
Main towns:
- Annan
- Dumfries
- Langholm
- Lockerbie
- Moffat
Other towns
- Applegarthtown
- Caerlaverock
- Canonbie
- Closeburn
- Cummertrees
- Dalton
- Dornock
- Dryfesdale
- Dunscore
- Durisdeer
- Eskdalemuir
- Ewes
- Glencairn
- Gretna
- Half Morton
- Hoddom
- Holywood
- Hutton
- Johnstone
- Keir
- Kirkconnel
- Kirkmahoe
- Kirkmichael
- Kirkpatrick-Fleming
- Kirkpatrick Juxta
- Lochmaben
- Middlebie
- Morton
- Mouswald
- Penpont
- Ruthwell
- St Mungo
- Sanquhar
- Tinwald
- Torthorwald
- Tundergarth
- Tynron
- Tynron Doon
- Wamphray
- Wamphray
- Westerkirk
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