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administrative county

first-level administrative division in England and Wales (1889-1974)
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administrative county

Summary

administrative county ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • administrative county is in the country of United Kingdom[2].
  • administrative county's subclass of is recorded as local government[3].
  • administrative county's subclass of is recorded as county[4].
  • administrative county's subclass of is recorded as county council area[5].
  • +1889-03-21T00:00:00Z marks the founding of administrative county[6].
  • +1889-04-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of administrative county[7].
  • administrative county was dissolved in +1974-04-01T00:00:00Z[8].
  • administrative county's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01x7jp[9].
  • administrative county's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/administrative-county[10].

Why It Matters

administrative county ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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