Merseyside

Merseyside (/[unsupported input]ˈmɜːrzisaɪd/) is a metropolitan coonty in North Wast Ingland, wi a population o 1,365,900.^[1] It encompasses the metropolitan aurie centred on baith banks o the lawer reaches o the Mersey Estuary, an comprises five metropolitan burghs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, an the ceety o Liverpuil. Merseyside, which wis creatit on 1 Aprile 1974 as a result o the Local Govrenment Act 1972, takes its name frae the River Mersey.

Coonty
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Constituent kintra	Ingland
Region	North Wast Ingland
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	97.1% White Breetish 2.9% Black Breetish, Breetish Asie, Breetish Cheenese, Breetish Mixed
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
• Simmer (DST)	Breetish Simmer Time (UTC+1)