Ceremonial county

A ceremonial county is a term used to refer to an English county area that has its own Lord Lieutenant. Ceremonial counties are no longer important for local government purposes, but are a very convenient way of dividing up the map of England.

London

 * City of London
 * Greater London

Metropolitan counties

 * Greater Manchester
 * Merseyside
 * South Yorkshire
 * Tyne and Wear
 * West Midlands
 * West Yorkshire

Unitary counties
These are ceremonial counties containing a single unitary authority:
 * City of Bristol
 * Cornwall
 * Herefordshire
 * Isle of Wight
 * Northumberland
 * Rutland

"Semi-unitary" counties
These are counties with a unitary council of the same name covering only part of the ceremonial county:


 * County Durham
 * East Riding of Yorkshire
 * Shropshire
 * Wiltshire

Other single-tier counties
These are counties with no county council, containing two or more unitary authorities:


 * Bedfordshire
 * Berkshire
 * Cheshire

Two-tier counties
These are counties with a county council and one or more district councils. Some of these also have one or more unitary authorities within the ceremonial county.
 * Buckinghamshire
 * Cambridgeshire
 * Cumbria
 * Derbyshire
 * Devon
 * Dorset
 * East Sussex
 * Essex
 * Gloucestershire
 * Hampshire
 * Hertfordshire
 * Kent
 * Lancashire
 * Leicestershire
 * Lincolnshire
 * Norfolk
 * North Yorkshire
 * Northamptonshire
 * Nottinghamshire
 * Oxfordshire
 * Somerset
 * Staffordshire
 * Suffolk
 * Surrey
 * Warwickshire
 * West Sussex
 * Worcestershire