Non Metropolitan County

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A non-metropolitan county, or shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county. The counties typically have populations of 300,000 to 1.4 million. The term shire county is, however, an unofficial usage. Many of the non-metropolitan counties bear historic names and most end in the suffix "-shire" such as Wiltshire or Staffordshire. Of the remainder, some counties had the -shire ending and have lost it over time; such as Devon. "Shire county" is, strictly, a dual-language tautology, the French-derived "county" being identical in meaning to the older Anglo-Saxon word "shire".

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