Do regions of Scotland have different accents?

Aye

Agree with poker.  Loads of varied scottish accents.  Same of course in england.  Same in USA and Australia, thing with USA and Australia is they are at least clear regardless.

There's more than a hint of Northern Irish in the Caithness accent.

Pretty much all of Europe tends to have strong regional accents, the question is a bit like asking does England have regional accents. Much like England has Scouse Geordie West Country Brum Cockney, Scotland has Glaswegian North East Edinburgh etc. Ireland is the same. It's just the further you get away from your own accent it's harder to see the differences that are obvious to locals. A strong Dublin accent is massively different to Cork, to some it's all just Irish sounding, a German from the north may have trouble even understanding a rural Bavarian, to us it just sounds German. Arnie sounds German to us, to Germans he an Austrian farmer, he's as German to them as someone from the Welsh Valleys is Cockney, you just can't hear it. I know an Australian that can't tell Welsh and English accents apart :)

The strange one is North America where the level of change can be little across large distances. I'm sure it's because its a relatively new country and the level of movement/immigration coupled with it developing after mass communication, that kind of unifies things. Like people in the UK adopting americanisms because of media. OK obviously there is a large difference between a texas and a boston accent but that's across a vast distance, in Europe accents can vary strongly across a few miles.

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I remember working with a German Doctor some years ago. Nice lady. I was speaking to her in German for the craic and she said I spoke better German than a Bavarian. She was clearly tickled by this which seems to prove Checking's comment about accents being noticeable to locals and indeed that Germans do have a sense of humor even if its a little strange.

Where I disagree with Checking is on his characterisation of American accents. On that I'd think we are no better than the Australian who can't tell the Welsh from English accent. We may not be able to tell the difference but I'd imagine most Americans can tell their accents in the same way we can abot our own. I've seen films where people from the same American city have been talking and one has identified which part of the city the other hails from due to how they speak.

Rob you've never been to the US? We get the sanatised versions
Some ununderstandble US version of Brad C Nezbit (see what I did there ) isn't going to sell.
But that's rare. The interesting thing about the sanitisation is that around NY, one of the places we'd all be most familiar with from TV, the accent is often more ... Bostony and different to what we expect from all the shows set there that sound a bit more mid atlantic. Quite understandable accents, but a bit different to what you'd expect.
(thinly veiled I've been to New Yoik post )

We all sound alike to foreigners. When on holiday I`ve even been mistaken for being English

I was recently in Portugal and the taxi driver couldn't tell the difference between any accent in England. He said that to him there was a slight difference with the Scots compared to most English.

I worked with four Scots on Canary Wharf in 1989. 

The Glaswegian used to ask me what the one from Brora was saying

But he understood the two from Wick (Father and son. Son committed suicide that xmas)

Americans are parochial and aren`t very bright EO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

Australian and New Zealand can easliy be told apart I think.

Indigenous white Londoners have different accents.
Not Sloane Rangers against eastenders,  that's too obvious.
But the minor differences can probably only be heard by fellow Londoners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij_5UGpjUsU

On the BBC now they are talking about the Pittsbug accent being voted the ugliest accent in the country.

This is strange as I can't really notice anything different about it, they have the southern accent, the Boston and New York accent, but traips across central us from coast to coast and the changes is not that noticeable, The American accent in general is quite broad, especially in comparison to the different English accents in what is a much smaller land mass, strange and probably unique when you think about it that you can pretty much tell which corner of the country or even city someone is from by their dialect, the Geordie, Scouse, Brummie, Mancunian, West Country and Cockney dialects are unmistakeable and are too strong for the Yanks to decipher, which is why whenever you see a Brit in an American Film or on an American TV show they are pretty much always the same stereotyped well spoken, middle class Brit that they can all understand, exception being Ozzy Osbourne who was a big TV star for a while but even then on many occassions they had to have subtitles when he was speaking

For example this, from an article about a sickening murder yesterday....

Victoria Thomson, who lived across the footpath, said: “She moved there a wee while ago, maybe last year.

“They definitely haven’t been there long.

“She lived there with her two children. The wee boy was five but that is all I know.

accents in England do change rapidly

there are 6 indigenous dialects within 50 miles of my doorstep (Essex or Mockney ,Coastal and rural  Suffolk,Ipswich,Fens,Norfolk,Standard RP English) all very distinctive in their own way - 20 if you include all the various East Europeans 

East Anglian accents do have a touch of Australian as Taxi noted ,  about his Cockney accent - East Anglian is basically Cockney in a singing style .

I would say there are as many as 50 distinct accents in England alone .

For the Stokies on here ,i find the accent a hard one to fathom ,maybe even a touch of Scouse and Manchester in there ? 
Coventry is the really hybrid one though - even a note of West country and East Anglian  if you listen very clearly  - possibly the only town where west country and Eastern meet .

No other country in the world has the diversity in accents that England has.
It has nothing to do with being familiar or close to a particular country.
England is exceptional in its range of accents.