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Surrey | |
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Ceremonial county | |
Clockwise from top: Guildford and its cathedral; the view from Leith Hill; and Epsom | |
 Ceremonial Surrey within England  Historic Surrey in the British Isles | |
| Coordinates: 51°15′N 0°27′W / 51.25°N 0.45°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | South East |
| Established | before 1066 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| Members of Parliament | List of MPs |
| Police | Surrey Police |
| Largest town | Woking |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Lord Lieutenant | Michael More-Molyneux |
| High Sheriff | Julie Llewelyn (2021–22)[1] |
| Area | 1,663 km2 (642 sq mi) |
| • Ranked | 35th of 48 |
| Population (2022) | 1,189,934 |
| • Ranked | 12th of 48 |
| Density | 716/km2 (1,850/sq mi) |
| Non-metropolitan county | |
| County council | Surrey County Council |
| Executive | Conservative |
| Admin HQ | Woodhatch Place, Reigate |
| Area | 1,663 km2 (642 sq mi) |
| • Ranked | 20th of 21 |
| Population | 1,214,540 |
| • Ranked | 5th of 21 |
| Density | 731/km2 (1,890/sq mi) |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-SRY |
| ONS code | 43 |
| GSS code | E10000030 |
| ITL | UKJ23 |
| Website | surreycc |
| Districts | |
 Districts of Surrey | |
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Surrey (/ˈsʌri/)[2] is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west. The largest settlement is Woking.
The county has an area of 1,663 km2 (642 sq mi) and a population of 1,196,236. Much of the north of the county forms part of the Greater London Built-up Area, which includes the suburbs within the M25 motorway as well as Woking (103,900), Guildford (77,057), and Leatherhead (32,522). The west includes part of the Farnborough/Aldershot built-up area, which extends into Hampshire and Berkshire and has a total population of 252,397. The south of the county is rural, and its largest settlements are Horley (22,693) and Godalming (22,689). The county contains eleven local government districts, which are part of a two-tier non-metropolitan county also called Surrey. The county historically included much of south-west Greater London and excluded Staines-upon-Thames, which was part of Middlesex.
The defining geographical feature of the county is the North Downs, a chalk escarpment which runs from the south-west to north-east and divides the densely populated north from the more rural south; it is pierced by the rivers Wey and Mole, both tributaries of the Thames. The north of the county is a lowland, part of the Thames basin. The south-east is part of the Weald, and the south-west contains the Surrey Hills and Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons, an extensive area of heath. The county has the densest woodland cover in England, at 22.4 per cent.
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