Wast Yorkshire

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]

Coonty

Sovereign stateUnitit Kinrick
Constituent kintraIngland
RegionYorkshire an the Humber
Oreegin1974
(Local Govrenment Act 1972)
Ceremonial coonty
Area[convert: needs a number]
 • Rankit o 48
 • Rankit o 48
Density[convert: needs a number]
Ethnicity88.6% White
8.7% S. Asie
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time (UTC)
 • Simmer (DST)Breetish Simmer Time (UTC+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.

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