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Region of the Scottish Lowlands
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The Lothians is the collective name for the counties of Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian, plus Edinburgh city, in the Central Belt of Scotland. They're all lowland in nature, heavily populated around Edinburgh, and bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth, and to the south by the Lammermuir hills. In 2021 their population was 897,770.
There are trains from Edinburgh to Dunbar, North Berwick, Linlithgow and Livingston.
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