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A traditional and ceremonial county of Scotland, subsumed into Grampian Region in the 1975 local government reforms and into Aberdeenshire in the 1990s. The county town is [[Banff]]; other centres include [[Macduff]] and [[Portsoy]]. The economy is based on tourism, fishing, mixed agriculture and whisky distilling (Banffshire falls into the [[Speyside]] whisky region)