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This article is about the area in Scotland. For other uses, see Fife (disambiguation).

olspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#9999ff"\|Fife
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olspan="2" bgcolor="#9999ff"\|Geography
a href="/encyclopedia/Surface-area" title="Surface area">Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 13th 1,325 km² ? %
dmin HQ:	Glenrothes
SO 3166-2:	GB-FIF
a href="/encyclopedia/ONS-coding-system" title="ONS coding system">ONS code:	00QR
olspan="2" bgcolor="#9999ff"\|Demographics
a href="/encyclopedia/Population" title="Population">Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 3rd 349,429 264 / km²
olspan="2" bgcolor="#9999ff"\|Politics
olspan="2" align="center"\|Fife Council http://www.fife.gov.uk
ontrol:
a href="/encyclopedia/MPs-elected-in-the-UK-general-election,-2001" title="MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001">MPs:	Gordon Brown Menzies Campbell John MacDougall Lewis Moonie Rachel Squire
a href="/encyclopedia/Members-of-the-Scottish-Parliament" title="Members of the Scottish Parliament">MSPs:	Helen Eadie Iain Smith Christine May Marilyn Livingstone Scott Barrie
olspan="2" bgcolor="#9999ff" align="center"\|Traditional Fife
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Fife is a unitary council region of Scotland situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. It was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms and is still known as the Kingdom of Fife. It is also a traditional county of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. From 1975 to 1996 Fife had the districts Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, North-East Fife. Since 1996 the functions of these district council have been exercised by Fife Council. Towns and villages

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In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, the Thane of Fife is Macduff. *

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