West Dunbartonshire

{| border=1 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width=280\n|-\n!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#9999ff"|West Dunbartonshire\n|-\n|colspan=2 align=center|\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#9999ff"|Geography\n|-\n|Area:
- Total
- % Water||Ranked 31st
159 km²
? %\n|-\n|Admin HQ:||Dumbarton\n|-\n|ISO 3166-2:||GB-WDU\n|-\n|ONS code:||00QG\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#9999ff"|Demographics\n|-\n|Population:
- Total (April 29, 2001)
- Density||Ranked 21st
93,378
587 / km²\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#9999ff"|Politics\n|-\n|colspan=2 align=center|West Dunbartonshire Council
MPs:||John McFall
Tony Worthington\n|}\nWest Dunbartonshire is one of 32 unitary authority areas in Scotland. Bordering onto Argyll and Bute, Stirling, East Dunbartonshire, the City of Glasgow, and Renfrewshire, it incorporates most of the old Dumbarton District Council and Clydebank District Council areas (indeed, the authority was initially called Dumbarton and Clydebank before the name was changed to West Dunbartonshire). Note that the town is spelt Dumbarton (with an 'm'), but the region and former county are known as Dunbartonshire (with an 'n'). This anomally in the spelling of the two variants originates from when the names were translated into English from the Gaelic Dùn Breatainn (Dumbarton) and Siorrachd Dhùn Bhreatainn (Dunbartonshire). The area is essentially composed of three parts: the towns of Dumbarton and Clydebank and the Vale of Leven district. West Dunbartonshire is administered from Dumbarton, although Clydebank is the largest town. Towns and villages\n*Alexandria\n*Balloch Bonhill Bowling\n*Clydebank\n*Dumbarton\n*Jamestown\n*Townend\n*Old Kilpatrick Places of interest\n*Erskine Bridge\n*Dumbarton Castle\n*Inchmurrin island\n*Loch Lomond\n*River Leven \nCategory:Unitary authorities of Scotland