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North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. [4] It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London.
Merseyside originally constituted a region in itself, but in 1998 it was merged into the North West England region, creating the nine present-day regions. [16] The nine regions were used as England's European Parliament constituencies from 1999 until Britain's departure from the European Union; [17] and as statistical NUTS level 1 regions.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... [2] Region Rank Population ... Outer London – West and North West 6 91,379 80,869 107,920
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There was a failed attempt to create elected regional assemblies outside London in 2004 and since then the structures of regional governance (regional assemblies, regional development agencies and local authority leaders' boards) have been subject to review. Following the change of government in 2010, these were scheduled for abolition by 2012.
The National Trust has 10 regional offices in England. These are Devon and Cornwall – part of the official South West region; East of England – as region; East Midlands – as region; North East England – North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber; North West England – as region
ITL 1 Region HDI (2022) [1] Very high human development 1: Greater London: 0.984 2: South East England: 0.954 – United Kingdom (average) 0.940: 3: South West England: 0.936 4 Scotland: 0.933 5: East of England: 0.928 6: North West England: 0.927 7: East Midlands: 0.925 West Midlands: 9: Yorkshire and the Humber: 0.920 10: North East England ...
The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 annexed Wales to England [19] to create the single legal entity, though legal differences remained. Further Acts meant this combined territory was referred to in law simply as 'England' from 1746 until 1967. Wales was described (in varying combinations) as the "country", "principality", and "dominion" of Wales.