thumb|Dumfries and Galloways placering i Skotland.
Dumfries and Galloway (; ) er en af de 32 kommuner eller enhedslig myndigheder council areas i Skotland. Det ligger i det vestlige Southern Uplands. Det dækker de historiske historiske counties Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire og Wigtownshire, hvor de sidste sammen bliver omtalt som Galloway. Administrationscentret og den største by er Dumfries. Den næststørste by er Stranraer, på Nordkanalens kyst omkring 92 km veset for Dumfries.
Efter en reorganisering af de lokale myndigheder i Skotland i 1975 blev de tre counties samlet i én region kaldet Dumfries and Galloway med fire distrikter. Disse distrikter blev opløst i 1996, hvorefter Dumfries and Galloway har været i én samlet lokalmyndighed.
Mod nord grænser Dumfries and Galloway op til East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire og South Lanarkshire; mod øst Borders; og mod syd countiet Cumbria i England og Solway Firth.
Byer og landsbyer Primære bebyggelser med fed tekst.
Ae, Airieland, Airds of Kells, Annan, Anwoth, Ardwell Beattock, Beeswing, Borgue, Brydekirk Caerlaverock, Cairngaan, Cairnryan, Cargenbridge, Carsphairn, Castle Douglas, Castle Kennedy, Clarencefield, Corsock, Creetown Dalbeattie, Dalton, Dornock, Drumlanrig, Drummore, Dumfries, Dundrennan, Dunscore Eastriggs, Ecclefechan, Eskdalemuir Garlieston, Gatehouse of Fleet, Glenluce, Gretna Green, Gretna Haugh of Urr, Hoddom Isle of Whithorn Johnsfield, Johnstonebridge Keir, Kelloholm, Kippford, Kirkbean, Kirkcolm, Kirkcowan Kirkcudbright, Kirkconnel, Kirkinner, Kirkpatrick Durham Langholm, Leswalt, Locharbriggs, Lochmaben, Lockerbie Middleshaw, Millhousebridge, Mochrum, Moffat, Moniaive, Muirhead, Mull of Galloway New Abbey, New Galloway, New Luce, Newton Stewart, Newton Wamphray Palnackie, Parkgate, Parton, Penpont, Portpatrick, Port William Ringford, Robgill Tower, Ruthwell Sandhead, Sanquhar, Sorbie, St John's Town of Dalry, Stoneykirk, Stranraer Templand, Terregles, Thornhill, Twynholm Unthank Wanlockhead, Whithorn, Wigtown
Seværdigheder
Annandale distilleri - Skotsk whisky Bladnoch Distillery & Visitor Centre - Skotsk whisky Caerlaverock Castle – Historic Scotland Caerlaverock NNR (national nature reserve) WWT Caerlaverock – Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Cardoness Castle Castle of St John, Stranraer Corsewall Lighthouse, privatejet Drumlanrig Castle HM Factory, Gretna, Eastriggs – ammunitionsfabrik under anden verdenskrig Galloway Forest Park, Forestry and Land Scotland Galloway Hydro Electric Scheme, Scottish Power Glenlair – home of 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell Glenluce Abbey Isle of Whithorn Castle Kenmure Castle – sædet for Clan Gordon Loch Ken MacLellan's Castle, Kirkcudbright Motte of Urr Mull of Galloway – RSPB/ South Rhins Community Development Trust Ruthwell Cross Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery Southern Upland Way – vandrerute Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey Threave Castle
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