Merseyside

Merseyside
County
Merseyside in England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	North West England
Established	1974 (Local Government Act 1972)
Ceremonial county
Area	645 km² (249 sq mi)
• Ranked	43rd of 48
Population (mid-2014 est.)	1,391,113
• Ranked	9th of 48
Density	2,141/km² (5,550/sq mi)
Ethnicity	91.8% White British 2.7% Other White 2.2% Asian 1% Black 1.6% Mixed 0.8% Other
Metropolitan county
Government	Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Area	645 km² (249 sq mi)
ONS code	2B
NUTS	UKD72, UKD73, UKD74 and part of UKD71

Districts of Merseyside
Districts	City of Liverpool Sefton Knowsley St Helens Wirral
Members of Parliament	Peter Dowd (L) Alison McGovern (L) Bill Esterson (L) Angela Eagle (L) Maria Eagle (L) Louise Ellman (L) (Co-op) Frank Field (L) Margaret Greenwood (L) George Howarth (L) Luciana Berger (L) (Co-op) Steve Rotherham (L) John Pugh (LD) Stephen Twigg (L) (Co-op) Conor McGinn (L) Marie Rimmer (L)
Time zone	GMT (UTC)
• Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)

Merseyside (/ˈmɜːrzisaɪd/) is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool. Merseyside, which was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, takes its name from the River Mersey.

Merseyside spans 249 square miles (645 km²) of land which border Lancashire (to the north-east), Greater Manchester (to the east), Cheshire (to the south and south-west) and the Irish Sea to the west. North Wales is across the Dee Estuary. There is a mix of high density urban areas, suburbs, semi-rural and rural locations in Merseyside, but overwhelmingly the land use is urban. It has a focused central business district, formed by Liverpool City Centre, but Merseyside is also a polycentric county with five metropolitan districts, each of which has at least one major town centre and outlying suburbs. The Liverpool Urban Area is the fifth most populous conurbation in England, and dominates the geographic centre of the county, while the smaller Birkenhead Urban Area dominates the Wirral Peninsula in the south.

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