Merseyside
metropolitan county in North West England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. Taking its name from the River Mersey, the title "Merseyside" came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974.
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Merseyside | |
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Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Constituent country | England |
Region | North West England |
Origin | 1974 (Local Government Act 1972) |
Time zone | UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time) |
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Area | [convert: needs a number] |
• Ranked | of 48 |
• Ranked | of 48 |
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Ethnicity | 97.1% White British 2.9% Black British, British Asian, British Chinese, British Mixed |
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Merseyside is divided into two parts by the Mersey estuary: the Wirral is on the west side of the estuary upon the Wirral Peninsula; the rest of the county is on the east side. The northern part of Merseyside borders onto Lancashire to the north, Greater Manchester to the east, both parts border Cheshire to the south.