Fife

Fife Fìobha
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Coordinates: 56°15′00″N 3°12′00″W / 56.25000°N 3.20000°W / 56.25000; -3.20000
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	Scotland
Lieutenancy area	Fife
Admin HQ	Glenrothes (since 1975) Cupar (until 1975)[1]
Government
• Body	Fife Council
• Control	Lab (council NOC|Minority Administration)
• MPs	Douglas Chapman Wendy Chamberlain Peter Grant Neale Hanvey
• MSPs	Annabelle Ewing Jenny Gilruth Willie Rennie Shirley-Anne Somerville David Torrance
Area
• Total	512 sq mi (1,325 km2)
• Rank	Ranked 13th
Population  (2022)
• Total	371,340
• Rank	Ranked 3rd
• Density	730/sq mi (280/km2)
Demonym	Fifer
ONS code	S12000047
ISO 3166 code	GB-FIF
Website	www.fife.gov.uk

Fife (/faɪf/ FYFE, Scottish English: [fɐi̯f]; Scottish Gaelic: Fìobha, IPA: [fiːvə]; Scots: Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i.e. the historic counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire) and Clackmannanshire. By custom it is widely held to have been one of the major Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland. A person from Fife is known as a Fifer. In older documents the county was very occasionally known by the anglicisation Fifeshire.

Fife is Scotland's third largest local authority area by population. It has a resident population of just under 367,000, over a third of whom live in the three principal settlements, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes. On the northeast coast of Fife lies the historic town of St Andrews, home to the University of St Andrews—the most ancient university of Scotland and one of the oldest universities in the world—and the Old Course at St Andrews, considered the world's oldest golf course.