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.