Wast Yorkshire
| Coonty | |
| Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
|---|---|
| Constituent kintra | Ingland |
| Region | Yorkshire an the Humber |
| Oreegin | 1974 (Local Govrenment Act 1972) |
| Ceremonial coonty | |
| Area | [convert: needs a number] |
| • Rankit | o 48 |
| • Rankit | o 48 |
| Density | [convert: needs a number] |
| Ethnicity | 88.6% White 8.7% S. Asie |
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) |
| • Simmer (DST) | Breetish Simmer Time (UTC+1) |
Wast Yorkshire (Inglis: West Yorkshire} is a metropolitan coonty athin the Yorkshire an the Humber region o Ingland wi a population o 2.2 million. Wast Yorkshire came intae existence as a metropolitan coonty in 1974 efter the passage o the Local Govrenment Act 1972.[1]
Wast Yorkshire, which is landlockit, consists o five metropolitan burghs (City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds an City of Wakefield) an skares mairches wi the coonties o Derbyshire (tae the sooth), Greater Manchester (tae the sooth-wast), Lancashire (tae the north-wast), North Yorkshire (tae the north an east) an Sooth Yorkshire (tae the sooth-east).
West Yorkshire Coonty Council wis abolished in 1986, an sae its destricts (the metropolitan burghs) are nou effectively unitary authorities. Housomeivver, the metropolitan coonty, whilk covers an aurie o 2,029 square kilometre (783 sq mi), continues tae exist in law, an as a geographic frame o reference.[2][3][4]
Wast Yorkshire encompasses the Wast Yorkshire Urban Aurie, whilk is the maist biggit-up an biggest urban aurie athin the historic coonty boundaries o Yorkshire.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Notes
- ↑ Arnold-Baker, C., Local Government Act 1972, (1973)
- ↑ Office of National Statistics Archived 2003-12-23 at the UK Government Web Archive – Gazetteer of the old and new geographies of the United Kingdom, p. 48. Retrieved 14 December 2006.
- ↑ Metropolitan Counties and Districts Archived 2002-06-06 at the UK Government Web Archive, Beginners' Guide to UK Geography, Office for National Statistics, 17 September 2004. Retrieved 11 January 2007.
- ↑ Yorkshire and Humber Counties, The Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 14 February 2007.