Scottish island regions 2023: overview

This is a brief guide to the Scottish Island Regions (2023) – a new geography for grouping Scotland’s islands into nine different island regions. This new geography is based on the Scottish Island Regions Framework (2020) (Annex 1) initially developed by the James Hutton Institute (JHI) and used as the basis for the National Islands Plan Survey (2020). Both have nine different island regions. In order to ‘future-proof’ the geography, and prevent regular updates being required as islands switch inhabited status, it was agreed that the geography would be updated.