a parliamentary and municipal burgh of Scotland, capital of the county of the same name, is situated on the left bank of the River Nairn, near its mouth, and 16 miles N.E. of Inverness. It contains a town-house and jail, and possesses a harbour adapted for fishing-boats and small vessels. The first charter of the burgh now extant is one granted by James VI., bearing to be a renewal of a charter by Alexander I. Nairn is governed by a provost and 17 councillors. By railway it is connected with Inverness, and the line between it and Aberdeen is now Nairnshire.