List of burghs in Scotland
The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into force of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892, in 1893. "Ineffective" burghs, which had not used legislation to adopt a "police system", take on local government duties and reform their town councils, were abolished on this date. "Burgh" () is the Scots term for a town or a municipality. It corresponds to the Scandinavian "Borg" and the English "Borough". Burghs are listed below under the name of the county to which they belonged. The county boundaries used are those effective for local government  purposes from circa 1890 until 1975. During this period four burghs were also counties, or "counties of cities" Counties of cities. These four burghs were redesignated as Counties of Cities in 1930 Note a: Royal Burgh of Aberdeen absorbed Aberdeenshire burghs of Old Aberdeen burgh (burgh of barony 1489, police burgh 1860), Woodside (police burgh 1860) in 1891. Note b: Royal Burgh of Glasgow absorbed the following Renfrewshire burghs in the years shown: Aberdeenshire. Note: The royal burgh of Aberdeen was part of this county until 1900. Angus (also known as "Forfarshire"). Note: The royal burgh of Dundee was part  of this county until 1894. ‡ Absorbed by Dundee royal burgh 1913 Edinburghshire. See "Midlothian" Elginshire. See "Morayshire" Fife. † Burghs merged 1929 ‡ Dysart absorbed by Kircaldy royal burgh 1930 Forfarshire. See "Angus" Haddingtonshire. See "East Lothian" Kirkcudbrightshire. † Maxwelltown burgh was absorbed by Dumfries royal burgh 1931. Lanarkshire. Note: The royal burgh of Glasgow was part of the county until 1893. † Burghs merged 1920 ‡ Burghs absorbed by Glasgow royal burgh on dates shown Linlithgowshire. See "West Lothian" Midlothian (also known as "Edinburghshire"). Note: The royal burgh of Edinburgh and its liberties formed a separate county of itself from the thirteenth century. † Burghs  merged 1920 ‡ Burghs absorbed by Edinburgh royal burgh in years shown (Portobello continued, however, as a separate parliamentary burgh until 1918) Perthshire. † Burghs merged 1930 Renfrewshire. † Burghs absorbed by Glasgow royal burgh on dates shown