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Greater Manchester former metropolitan county, 497 sq mi (1,288 sq km), W central England. It comprised ten administrative districts: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan. The county, which was created in the 1974 local government reorganization, was abolished in 1986, and the districts became responsible for all services except police, fire, and civil defense, which are supervised jointly.

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Manchester, Greater A term first used in 1914 to describe a commercial rather than municipal focus in north‐west England, but now applied to the major conurbation which was created a metropolitan county after local government reform (1972). Of the six such counties created, it is the only one to be named after its central city.

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