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Merseyside
Image:EnglandMerseyside.png
Geography
Status:Ceremonial County
Region:North West England
Area:
- Total
Ranked 43rd
645 km²
ONS code:2B
NUTS 2:UKD5
Demographics
Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density
Ranked 9th
1,361,009
2,110 / km²
Ethnicity:97.1% White
Politics
Members of Parliament
Joe Benton, Ben Chapman, Claire Curtis-Thomas, Maria Eagle, Angela Eagle, Louise Ellman, Frank Field, Stephen Hesford, George Howarth, Jane Kennedy, Peter Kilfoyle, Edward O'Hara, Robert Nelson Wareing, David Leonard Watts, Shaun Woodward
Districts
Image:MerseysideNumbered.png
  1. Liverpool
  2. Sefton
  3. Knowsley
  4. St Helens
  5. Wirral
Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council
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Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council

Merseyside is a metropolitan county, created in the 1974 local government reform. It is in the north of England, on the River Mersey, composed of the metropolitan boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral.

In 1986 its county council was abolished, and so its boroughs are unitary authorities, although Merseyside still exists legally, and as a ceremonial county. It borders onto Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Cheshire.

Other districts that are part of the urban area (but not part of Merseyside) are Ellesmere Port and Neston and Halton.

Uniquely among English counties, it is traditional to express location within the Merseyside area by the pronoun on, thus "on Merseyside" as opposed to "in Merseyside" (after all, one would be "on the side of the Mersey" not "in" it). However, both expressions are common in modern usage.

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