Ceremonial counties
Ceremonial Counties of England
From Cornwall to Northumberland: name all 48 ceremonial counties of England on the map in 8 minutes. Each county you type lights up on the map, or switch to “find on the map” and click them one by one.
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Every county is outlined on the map. Type the names before the 8:00 timer runs out: each one you get is labelled on the map. Short forms and the usual abbreviations count: “Durham”, “Wight”, “East Riding”, “Glos” or “Herts”.
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The list, the names and sources
The 48 ceremonial counties of England, the counties of the Lord-Lieutenants (Lieutenancies Act 1997), including Greater London, the City of London, Bristol and the Isle of Wight. Stockton-on-Tees straddles the Tees; it is drawn with County Durham, where most of it lies.
Short forms and the usual abbreviations count too: “Durham”, “Wight”, “East Riding”, “London” for Greater London, “Glos”, “Herts”, “Notts” or “Salop”. “Yorkshire” and “Sussex” on their own are not enough.
“Find on the map” names one place at a time: click it on the map. You get one click per name; a wrong click marks the place in red and moves on.
County outlines are Natural Earth’s (public domain) boundaries of England’s counties and unitary authorities, merged into the ceremonial counties, as in the find-on-the-map and no-outlines county quizzes. The land around England also comes from Natural Earth.