The council area of Na h-Eileanan Siar has 15,811 Gaelic speakers, making up 59.7 percent of the population.
With 59.3% of Gaelic speakers or a total of 15,723 speakers, this made the Outer Hebrides the most strongly coherent Gaelic speaking area in Scotland. The islands are geographically with Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. 
