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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.
Cheshire (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ ʃ ər,-ɪər / CHESH-ər, -eer) [3] is a ceremonial county in North West England.It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shropshire to the south; to the west it is bordered by the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham, and has a short coastline on the Dee Estuary.
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However, regional differences do seem to be slowly narrowing: between 1991 and 1993 and 2012–2014, life expectancy in the North East increased by 6.0 years and in the North West by 5.8 years, the fastest increases in any region outside London, and the gap between life expectancy in the North East and South East is now 2.5 years, down from 2.9 ...
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. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London.
Longest river entirely within England is the River Thames. 346 km (215 mi) Largest lake: Windermere 14.73 km 2 (5.69 sq mi) Climate: Oceanic "British" climate with small areas of Subarctic climate: Terrain: Mostly low hills and plains, especially in the south, Midlands and east. Upland or mountainous terrain prevails in the north and parts of ...
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