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While the UK was a member of the European Union, they defined areas (constituencies) for the purposes of elections to the European Parliament. Eurostat also used them to demarcate first level Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) regions ("NUTS 1 regions") within the European Union , which in 2021 were superseded by ...
This is a list of the 296 districts of England, a type of country subdivision governed by a local authority, that cover all of England.Most English districts are known as non-metropolitan districts and are found in non-metropolitan counties.
Subdivisions of England; Subdivisions of England (as of 1 April 2023) that have a principal local authority: two-tier non-metropolitan counties and their non-metropolitan districts; metropolitan boroughs; unitary authorities; London boroughs; and the sui generis City of London and Isles of Scilly.
ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. [1]
The UK also retains in all territories a residual responsibility for 'good governance', a loosely defined constitutional concept recently exemplified by its imposition of direct rule following alleged serious corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The UK parliament at Westminster, and the British Government through the Privy Council, both ...
This is a list of the 296 districts of England ordered by area, according to Standard Area Measurements published by the Office for National Statistics. [1] The area is defined as 'area to mean high water excluding inland water'.
The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are dependencies of the Crown and are not part of the UK. Similarly, the British Overseas Territories, remnants of the British Empire, are not part of the UK. From 1801, following the Acts of Union, until 1922 the whole island of Ireland was a country within the UK.
Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies.A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area.