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 official 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 comes from the same official map data.