0 an area of northern Scotland that used to be a county (= an area with its own local government): --
His father was from Sutherland and his mother from the Borders.
The estate is near Dornoch in Sutherland.
It takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness, in Sutherland, to Inverness.
The best game fishing for the visitor to this lovely area of Sutherland is to be had on Loch Brora.