Areas of Edinburgh

The City of Edinburgh council area is divided into 17 wards, which have been combined into four operational management areas termed "localities":^[1][2]

North East Leith Leith Walk Craigentinny/Duddingston Portobello/Craigmillar	North West Almond Drum Brae/Gyle Corstorphine/Murrayfield Forth Inverleith
South East City Centre Southside/Newington Morningside Liberton/Gilmerton	South West Sighthill/Gorgie Colinton/Fairmilehead Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart Pentland Hills

The localities are further divided into Neighbourhood Partnership (NP) Areas:^[3][4]

North East Leith NP Craigentinny and Duddingston NP Craigmillar and Portobello NP	North West Almond NP Western Edinburgh NP Forth NP Inverleith NP
South East City Centre NP South Central NP Liberton/Gilmerton NP	South West South West NP Pentlands NP

Two of the Neighbourhood Partnership areas, Almond NP and Pentlands NP, extend into the rural hinterland in the west of the City of Edinburgh council area, taking in villages such as Kirkliston and Ratho which are not part of the settlement of Edinburgh (however, Juniper Green, Baberton, Currie and Balerno are considered to be contiguous and are included). For the same reason, less than 50% of the North West and the South West localities' territory is with the urban area. to the east of the city, Musselburgh and Wallyford in East Lothian are considered to be contiguous with the main Edinburgh settlement and are also included in the urban area; however, other nearby localities such as Loanhead and Danderhall are not included (this may be adjusted in the future, particularly for Danderhall where 2020s housing developments at the former Edmonstone estate on the local authority boundary with Edinburgh will almost close the gap between the localities).^[5][6][7][8]