Stirling District is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland and has a a population of around 85,000. It covers most of the former county of Stirlingshire (except Falkirk) and the south-western portion of the former county of Perthshire. The administrative centre of the region is the City of Stirling itself which was granted City status in 2002 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee,
The region borders Clackmannanshire is to the east, Falkirk to the south east, Perth and Kinross to the north and north east, Argyll and Bute to the north and north west, and both East and West Dunbartonshire are both to Stirling's southwest.
The majority of the population of the region is located in its southeast corner actually the city of Stirling and in the surrounding lowland communities: Dunblane and Bridge of Allan to the north, Bannockburn to the immediate south, and the three former coal mining communities of Cowie, Fallin, and Plean which are known collectively as "The Eastern Villages.
The other parts of the regions population is sparsely distributed across the rural, mainly highland, expanse in the north. The southern half of this rural area comprises the flat western floodplain of the River Forth bounded on the south by the Touch Hills and the Campsie Fells. North of the glen lie the Trossachs mountains, and the northern half of the region is mountainous.
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