Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig), sometimes known as the County of Lanark and Clydesdale, is a county of central Scotland. The county town is Lanark but the largest settlement is, by far, the city of Glasgow, the third most populous city in the United Kingdom which is at the heart of an urban area that extends into parts of Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire. In the 19th and 20th century it was a major industrial center with extensive coal mines, and iron and steel works in the Motherwell and Wishaw areas. Other major industries included shipbuilding, railway carriage manufacture, crane and construction equipment manufacture, and the manufacture of prefabricated bridge parts.

The population of Lanarkshire is around 1.1 million, with much of this population living in the urbanised north of the county. The south of the county contains part of the Southern Uplands and is sparsely populated.

New Lanark, in the south of the county, is a utopian factory community founded by Robert Owen.

92% of the fortified wine produced by the Buckfast monastic community in Devon, England, is sold in Lanarkshire.