The city 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 Outer Hebrides /hbrdiz/ or Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Siar [n helann i (listen) or Na h-Eileanan an Iar [n helann i (listen); Scots: Waster Isles), sometimes known as Innse Gall ("islands of the strangers") or the Long Isle/Long Island (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland. 
