Highlands - Definition and Overview

Highland or Highlands has these meanings:-

The term highland is used in geography for any elevated mountainous plateau.

Highland is the name of some places in the United States of America:

• Highland, Arkansas
• Highland, California
• Highland, Illinois
• Highland, Indiana
• Highland, Kansas
• Highland, Maine
• Highland, New York
• Highland, Ohio
• Highland, Utah
• Highland, Washington
• Highland, Wisconsin
• Town of Highland, in Iowa County, Wisconsin
• Town of Highland, in Douglas County, Wisconsin
• Highland County, Ohio
• Highland County, Virginia
• Highland Township, Oakland County, Michigan
• Highland Township, Osceola County, Michigan
• Highland Township, Minnesota
• Highland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania
• Highland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
• Highland Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania
• Highland Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania

See also Highland Heights, Highland Park, Highland Mills, New York, Highland Village, Texas.

Highland is also an administrative region in Scotland. This is part of, but not the same as, the generally mountainous area called the Scottish Highlands.

Highland Park is also a Scotch Whisky produced in the Orkney Islands, which are not part of either the administrative area of Highland nor the Scottish Highlands.

Highlands is the name of several places in the United States of America:

• Highlands, New Jersey
• Highlands, North Carolina
• Highlands, Texas

(There is also Highlands Ranch, Colorado.)

Highlands, British Columbia is a municipality on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.

Highlands music is a type of folk music

The Highland Pony is a breed of horse.