Cairngorms National Park is a national park in northeast Scotland, established in 2003 as the second of two national parks created by the Scottish Parliament, following Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park the year before. It covers the Cairngorms mountain range and its surrounding hills, and was already the largest national park in the United Kingdom before a 2010 expansion extended it further into Perth and Kinross. As with the UK's other national parks, the designation protects a landscape of farms, villages and estates alongside its mountain and moorland habitat, rather than land set aside from human use.
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing BodyNational park authority 1 IUCN Category Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationRamsar Site (Wetland of International Importance) 1 Governing Body
Governing Body (category)UK National Park Authority 1 FAQs
Do people live inside Cairngorms National Park?
Yes. Roughly 18000 people live there.
Yes. Roughly 18,000 people live within the 4,528-square-kilometre park. The largest communities are Aviemore, Ballater, Braemar, Grantown-on-Spey, Kingussie, Newtonmore and Tomintoul. Like all other national parks in the UK, the park is IUCN designated Category V, although it contains several national nature reserves with Category II status, such as Abernethy Forest and Mar Lodge Estate.
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Cairngorms National Park is in northeast Scotland.
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Cairngorms National Park is the largest national park in the United Kingdom.
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is a national park in northeast Scotland, established in 2003
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The park covers the Cairngorms range of mountains, and surrounding hills. Already the largest national park in the United Kingdom, in 2010 it was expanded into Perth and Kinross.
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