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Hood County, Texas
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Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire , county (1991 pop. 951,500), 631 sq mi (1,634 sq km), E central England. The county seat is Hertford , but Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, and St. Albans are more important urban centers. The terrain is level except for an extension of the Chiltern Hills in the northwest. The... Read more |
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Government of Ireland Act
Ireland, Government of, Act, 1920–1. The first major constitutional reform since the Act of Union 1800–1 resulted from the need for an alternative to the third Home Rule Bill, suspended 1914, which no longer had the backing of Southern Irish nationalist opinion. It aimed to establish... Read more |
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Surrey
Surrey county (1991 pop. 997,000), 653 sq mi (1,691 sq km), SE England. The county seat is Guildford . The North Downs cross the county from east to west. To the north the land slopes gently downward to the Thames, into which flow the Wey and the Mole, Surrey's principal streams. The southern... Read more |
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Kirkcudbrightshire
Kirkcudbright former county, Scotland: see Kirkcudbrightshire .... Read more |
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Norfolk (county)
Norfolk , county (1991 pop. 736,700), 2,054 sq mi (5,320 sq km), E England. The county seat is Norwich . The region is one of flat, fertile farmlands, with a long, low coast bordering on the North Sea and the Wash. The principal rivers are the Ouse, the Bure, the Yare and its tributary the Wensum,... Read more |
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Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire , Buckingham, or Bucks, county (1991 pop. 619,500), 727 sq mi (1,883 sq km), central England. The county seat is Aylesbury . The Thames River forms the southern boundary of the county. In S Buckinghamshire are the chalky Chiltern Hills with their beech forests; furniture... Read more |
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Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire , county (1991 pop. 980,600), 843 sq mi (2,183 sq km), central England. The county seat is Nottingham . The land, partially reclaimed fenland, is low-lying and fertile. A southern area of moors devoted to pasturage is known as the Wolds. The principal river is the Trent. Sherwood... Read more |
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Derbyshire
Derbyshire county (1991 pop. 915,000), 1,016 sq mi (2,632 sq km), central England. The county seat is Derby . The terrain of the county is flat in the south, rising in the north to more than 2,000 ft (610 m) in the Peak district. The region is drained by the Trent River, with the Dove, the... Read more |
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Cumberland
Cumberland former county, N England. In 1974, Cumberland became part of the nonmetropolitan county of Cumbria .... Read more |
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