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England showing the metropolitan counties
There are six
metropolitan counties in England: (
Greater Manchester,
Merseyside,
South Yorkshire,
Tyne and Wear,
West Midlands, and
West Yorkshire. They cover the major English conurbations outside
London. They came into existence under the Local Government Act 1972, and each originally had a county council and councils for each of the
metropolitan boroughs. The county councils were abolished, along with the
Greater London Council, in 1986, leaving the metropolitan boroughs effectively as unitary authorities. The county councils were not reintroduced when the
Greater London Authority was created in 2000.
