Administrative county information

An administrative county was a first-level administrative division in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974, and in Ireland from 1899 until 1973 in Northern...

county council for each area. Some geographically large historic counties were divided into several administrative counties, each with its own county...

each of which was an administrative county for a single town or city, within a larger "county-at-large". Toponymical list of counties of the United Kingdom...

The counties of England are divisions of England. Counties have been used as administrative areas in England since Anglo-Saxon times. There are two main...

called an administrative county. As such, some of the judicial or lieutenancy counties comprised several administrative counties and county boroughs....

Administrative counties were a unit of local government created by an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for use in Ireland in 1899. Following...

A county administrative board (Swedish: länsstyrelse) is a Swedish Government Agency in each of the counties of Sweden, led by a vice-regal governor (Swedish:...

The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the...

well as their administrative function, the counties also helped define local culture and identity. This role continued even after the counties ceased to be...

divided into six counties, namely: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. Six largely rural administrative counties based on these were...

The Administrative county of Cornwall was created by the Local Government Act 1888. The act created a system of local government, and as part of this...

The largest settlement is Blackpool, and Preston is the administrative centre. The county has an area of 3,079 square kilometres (1,189 sq mi) and a...

outside of the administrative county. The ceremonial county remained under the same borders as the historic county until 1968 when the County Borough of Teesside...

county did not have an independent sheriff, instead being combined with neighbouring Cambridgeshire. Huntingdonshire became an administrative county when...

in 2011 had a population of 9,787,426. None of the administrative area, region, or ceremonial county hold city status, but the boroughs of the City of...

traditional counties of Ireland, which included 27 administrative counties and four county boroughs. Rural districts were abolished everywhere except County Dublin...

with Ketton Rural District going along with Stamford to a new administrative county of Cambridgeshire, and the western part added to Leicestershire...

Autonomous counties (Chinese: 自治县) and autonomous banners (Chinese: 自治旗) are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. The two are essentially...

introduction of elected county government in England, by way of the Local Government Act 1888. The Act created an administrative County of London, which included...

entirely from the administrative county of Flintshire was included in the new Denbighshire instead. Other parts of the pre-1974 administrative Flintshire to...

of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named County of York, West Riding. The lieutenancy at that time included...

subdivision (the local governments). Some administrative division names (such as departments, cantons, prefectures, counties or governorates) can be used for principal...

Government Act 1888, the Cumberland County Council was created as the county council for Cumberland, taking over administrative functions from the Court of Quarter...

first-level administrative divisions. 11 counties and 3 cities were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan Province, and 2 additional counties being...

A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French comté denoting...

Bristol became a county in its own right, separate from Gloucestershire and Somerset, in 1373. It later became part of the administrative County of Avon from...