West Yorkshire
metropolitan and ceremonial county in England, UK / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It was created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 [1] and in 2005 covered an area of 2,029 km² and a population of 2.1 million. It is the most built up and biggest urban area in Yorkshire.
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West Yorkshire | |
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Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Constituent country | England |
Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Origin | 1974 |
Time zone | UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time) |
Ceremonial county | |
Area | [convert: needs a number] |
• Ranked | of 48 |
• Ranked | of 48 |
Density | [convert: needs a number] |
Ethnicity | 88.6% White 8.7% S.Asian |
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