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Merseyside, England

Merseyside
County
Merseyside within England
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-2016 est.) 1,406,400
 • Ranked 9th of 48
Density 2,174/km2 (5,630/sq mi)
Ethnicity 91.8% White British
2.7% Other White
2.2% Asian
1% Black
1.6% Mixed
0.8% Other
Metropolitan county
Area 645 km2 (249 sq mi)
ONS code 2B
NUTS UKD72, UKD73, UKD74 and part of UKD71
Merseyside numbered districts.svg
Districts of Merseyside
Districts
  1. City of Liverpool
  2. Sefton
  3. Knowsley
  4. St. Helens
  5. Wirral
Members of Parliament
Time zone Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
 • Summer (DST) British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Merseyside (/ˈmɜːrzisd/) 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-east) 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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