From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe Highlandsthe HighlandsSGan area in the north of Scotland where there are a lot of mountains → highlands
Examples from the Corpus
the Highlands• Diana had been blaming the Highlands for what was a far more fundamental malady.• I first met him, as I met Askalu, in the highlands 13 years ago.• Fieldwork in the Highlands was resumed in 1926 in a rather dramatic fashion.• Or do policemen in the Highlands now drink cocoa at breakfast?• The lunar far side is much closer in character to the highlands of the near side.• They went to the Highlands, which was where the problems began. 