The 232 counties of the United Kingdom
the United Kingdom has 232 counties. This page lists all of them.
The table shows the English name first. The local name is accepted as an answer too, and it appears in the second column.
English names and local names
The quiz shows English names, because that is what most players type. It accepts the local name as well.
Accent marks do not matter. The quiz folds accents before it compares, so a name typed without them still counts.
Abbreviations are not accepted. A short code is ambiguous, and one code often matches the start of another name.
About the counties
The United Kingdom has four constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each one divides differently, so the quiz groups the answers by country.
England uses counties. Scotland uses council areas. Wales uses principal areas. Northern Ireland uses districts.
The quiz uses one term for all of them, because a single name keeps the instructions short.
All 232 counties
| County | Also accepted |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen | Aberdeen City |
| Aberdeenshire | |
| Anglesey | Isle of Anglesey, Ynys Mon |
| Angus | |
| Antrim | County Antrim |
| Ards | |
| Argyll and Bute | |
| Armagh | County Armagh |
| Ballymena | |
| Ballymoney | |
| Banbridge | |
| Barking and Dagenham | |
| Barnet | |
| Barnsley | |
| Bath and North East Somerset | Bath |
| Bedford | |
| Belfast | |
| Bexley | |
| Birmingham | |
| Blackburn with Darwen | Blackburn |
| Blackpool | |
| Blaenau Gwent | |
| Bolton | |
| Bournemouth | |
| Bracknell Forest | |
| Bradford | |
| Brent | |
| Bridgend | |
| Brighton and Hove | Brighton |
| Bristol | City of Bristol |
| Bromley | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
| Bury | |
| Caerphilly | |
| Calderdale | |
| Cambridgeshire | |
| Camden | |
| Cardiff | |
| Carmarthenshire | |
| Carrickfergus | |
| Castlereagh | |
| Central Bedfordshire | |
| Ceredigion | |
| Cheshire East | |
| Cheshire West and Chester | Cheshire West |
| City of London | |
| Clackmannanshire | |
| Coleraine | |
| Conwy | Conway |
| Cookstown | Mid Ulster |
| Cornwall | |
| Coventry | |
| Craigavon | |
| Croydon | |
| Cumbria | |
| Darlington | |
| Denbighshire | |
| Derby | |
| Derbyshire | |
| Derry | Londonderry |
| Devon | |
| Doncaster | |
| Dorset | |
| Down | County Down |
| Dudley | |
| Dumfries and Galloway | |
| Dundee | Dundee City |
| Dungannon | |
| Durham | County Durham |
| Ealing | |
| East Ayrshire | |
| East Dunbartonshire | |
| East Lothian | |
| East Renfrewshire | |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | East Riding |
| East Sussex | |
| Edinburgh | City of Edinburgh |
| Enfield | |
| Essex | |
| Falkirk | |
| Fermanagh | County Fermanagh |
| Fife | |
| Flintshire | |
| Gateshead | |
| Glasgow | Glasgow City |
| Gloucestershire | |
| Greenwich | |
| Gwynedd | |
| Hackney | |
| Halton | |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | Hammersmith |
| Hampshire | |
| Haringey | |
| Harrow | |
| Hartlepool | |
| Havering | |
| Herefordshire | |
| Hertfordshire | |
| Highland | |
| Hillingdon | |
| Hounslow | |
| Inverclyde | |
| Isle of Wight | |
| Isles of Scilly | Scilly Isles, Scilly |
| Islington | |
| Kensington and Chelsea | |
| Kent | |
| Kingston upon Hull | Hull |
| Kingston upon Thames | Kingston |
| Kirklees | |
| Knowsley | |
| Lambeth | |
| Lancashire | |
| Larne | |
| Leeds | |
| Leicester | |
| Leicestershire | |
| Lewisham | |
| Limavady | |
| Lincolnshire | |
| Lisburn | |
| Liverpool | |
| Luton | |
| Magherafelt | |
| Manchester | |
| Medway | |
| Merthyr Tydfil | |
| Merton | |
| Middlesbrough | Middlesborough |
| Midlothian | |
| Milton Keynes | |
| Monmouthshire | |
| Moray | |
| Moyle | |
| Neath Port Talbot | |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | Newcastle |
| Newham | |
| Newport | |
| Newry and Mourne | |
| Newtownabbey | |
| Norfolk | |
| North Ayrshire | |
| North Down | |
| North East Lincolnshire | |
| North Lanarkshire | |
| North Lincolnshire | |
| North Somerset | |
| North Tyneside | |
| North Yorkshire | |
| Northamptonshire | |
| Northumberland | |
| Nottingham | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
| Oldham | |
| Omagh | |
| Orkney | Orkney Islands |
| Oxfordshire | |
| Pembrokeshire | |
| Perth and Kinross | Perthshire and Kinross, Perthshire |
| Peterborough | |
| Plymouth | |
| Poole | |
| Portsmouth | |
| Powys | |
| Reading | |
| Redbridge | |
| Redcar and Cleveland | |
| Renfrewshire | |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf | Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rhondda |
| Richmond upon Thames | Richmond |
| Rochdale | |
| Rotherham | |
| Rutland | |
| Salford | |
| Sandwell | |
| Scottish Borders | |
| Sefton | |
| Sheffield | |
| Shetland Islands | Shetland |
| Shropshire | |
| Slough | |
| Solihull | |
| Somerset | |
| South Ayrshire | |
| South Gloucestershire | |
| South Lanarkshire | |
| South Tyneside | |
| Southampton | |
| Southend-on-Sea | Southend |
| Southwark | |
| St Helens | |
| Staffordshire | |
| Stirling | |
| Stockport | |
| Stockton-on-Tees | Stockton |
| Stoke-on-Trent | Stoke |
| Strabane | |
| Suffolk | |
| Sunderland | |
| Surrey | |
| Sutton | |
| Swansea | |
| Swindon | |
| Tameside | |
| Telford and Wrekin | Telford |
| Thurrock | |
| Torbay | |
| Torfaen | |
| Tower Hamlets | |
| Trafford | |
| Vale of Glamorgan | |
| Wakefield | |
| Walsall | |
| Waltham Forest | |
| Wandsworth | |
| Warrington | |
| Warwickshire | |
| West Berkshire | |
| West Dunbartonshire | |
| West Lothian | |
| West Sussex | |
| Western Isles | Eilean Siar, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Outer Hebrides |
| Westminster | City of Westminster |
| Wigan | |
| Wiltshire | |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Wirral | |
| Wokingham | |
| Wolverhampton | |
| Worcestershire | |
| Wrexham | |
| York |
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Sources
- Official local names published by the United Kingdom.
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