Stirling (Sruighlea around Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions around Scotland with a people of astir 85,000. It covers virtually all of the county of Stirlingshire (except Falkirk) and a South-american part of Perthshire. A administrative centre of the area is the city of Stirling itself. A vicinity borders Clackmannanshire (to the east), Falkirk (to the south east), Perth and Kinross (to the northerly & north east), Argyll and Bute (to the northerly & north west), & each East and West Dunbartonshire, both to Stirling's southwest.

A majority of the people of the area is located in its sou'-east corner, in the city of Stirling & in the encompassing lowland communities: Dunblane and Bridge of Allan to the north, Bannockburn to a immediate south, & the 3 previous coal mining communities of Cowie, Fallin, & Plean (known together when "The Eastern Villages"). A leftover 30 percent of the area's people is sparsely distributed through a rural expanse of the vicinity. A southern half of this rural region is a flat american flood plain of the River Forth, bounded on the south per Touch Hills and the Campsie Fells. Northerly of a vale lie the Trossachs mountains, & a northern half of the area is typically mountainous and highland in character.

Towns and villages
Aberfoyle Ardchyle Ardeonaig Arnpryor Balmaha Bannockburn Boreland Bridge of Allan Brig O' Turk Buchlyvie Callander Cowie Craigruie Crianlarich Croftamie Doune (location of a castle utilized in the cinematography of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail) Drymen Dunblane Fallin Fintry Gargunnock Inversnaid Killearn Killin Kinbuck Kinlochard Kippen Lochearnhead Mugdock Port of Menteith Plean Rowardennan Strathyre Stronachlachar Thornhill Tyndrum Stirling Strathblane

Places of interest
Culcreuch Castle Inchmahome Priory (a ruined Augustinian priory inside an island in the Flow of any stream of Menteith, utilized as a refuge in 1547 by Mary, Queen of Scots) Breadalbane Folklore Centre Cambuskenneth Abbey (formerly a seat of the Scottish Parliament) Doune Castle Falls of Dochart Falls of Lochay Glen Dochart Lake of Menteith (Scotland's only 'Flow of any stream') Loch Achray Loch Ard Loch Earn Loch Katrine (The source of virtually all of the swallowing a lake for the city of Glasgow) Loch Venachar Moirlannich Longhouse Queen Elizabeth Forest Park (run per Forestry Commission) Scottish Institute of Sport (on the grounds of Stirling University) Stirling Castle The University of Stirling Wallace Monument