Wirral

metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England
AdministrativeArea metropolitan_borough Q11365639
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Wirral

Summary

Wirral is a metropolitan borough[1]. Wirral ranks in the top 7% of metropolitan_borough entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (382 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wirral is located in Merseyside[3].
  • Wirral is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Wirral is on the body of water River Mersey[5].
  • Wirral is on the body of water River Dee[6].
  • Wirral is on the body of water Irish Sea[7].
  • Wirral's image is recorded as Benkid77 Wallasey Town Hall 1 090809.JPG[8].
  • Wirral's instance of is recorded as metropolitan borough[9].
  • Wirral's instance of is recorded as unparished area[10].
  • Wirral's capital is recorded as Wallasey[11].
  • Wirral's shares border with is recorded as Sefton[12].
  • Wirral's shares border with is recorded as Liverpool[13].
  • Wirral's twinned administrative body is recorded as Sibiu[14].
  • Wirral's legislative body is recorded as council of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council[15].
  • Wirral's locator map image is recorded as Wirral UK locator map.svg[16].
  • Wirral's ISO 3166-2 code is recorded as GB-WRL[17].
  • Wirral's Commons category is recorded as Metropolitan Borough of Wirral[18].
  • Wirral's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 162456[19].
  • +1974-04-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Wirral[20].
  • Wirral's NUTS code is recorded as UKD74[21].
  • Wirral's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 53.396972, 'lon': -3.011914}[22].
  • Wirral's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01rwdv[23].
  • Wirral's authority is recorded as Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council[24].
  • Wirral's GSS code is recorded as E08000015[25].
  • Wirral's GSS code is recorded as E43000169[26].
  • Wirral's official website is recorded as https://www.wirral.gov.uk[27].

Body

Geography

Wirral is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. Wirral is located in Merseyside[3]. Adjacent water bodies include River Mersey[5], a main stem[28], in United Kingdom[29]; River Dee[6], a river[30], in United Kingdom[31]; and Irish Sea[7], a sea[32], in United Kingdom[33].

Physical Characteristics

Wirral's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+157.0463'}[34]. Population counts include {'amount': '+320900'}[35], {'amount': '+323235'}[36], {'amount': '+320200'}[37], and {'amount': '+322453'}[38].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include metropolitan borough[9] and unparished area[10].

History and Context

+1974-04-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Wirral[20].

Why It Matters

Wirral ranks in the top 7% of metropolitan_borough entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (382 views/month).[2] Wirral has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Wirral is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [8] . wikidata.org.
  3. [9] . wikidata.org.
  4. [10] . wikidata.org.
  5. [11] . wikidata.org.
  6. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [3] . wikidata.org.
  9. [14] . wikidata.org.
  10. [15] . wikidata.org.
  11. [5] . wikidata.org.
  12. [6] . wikidata.org.
  13. [7] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . ONS lookup file of LAs for non-parished areas in England, 2019. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [35] . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [36] . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [37] . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [38] . ons.gov.uk. ons.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [34] . ons.maps.arcgis.com. ons.maps.arcgis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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