West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in the north of England. It's largely urban, but with a surprising amount of countryside, especially in the Pennine hills to the west.
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West Yorkshire
- Region with 2,300,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 371 feet (113 metres)
- …is also known as “Ceremonial County West Yorkshire”
- Description: metropolitan and ceremonial county in England, UK
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Latitude of center
53.7° or 53° 42′ north
Longitude of center
-1.5833° or 1° 35′ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“West Yorkshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wes-Yorkshire”
- Arabic: “غرب يوركشاير”
- Arabic: “غرب يوركشير”
- Arabic: “ويست يوركشاير”
- Arabic: “ويست يوركشير”
- Arabic: “يوركشير الغربي”
- Arabic: “يوركشير الغربية”
- Aragonese: “Yorkshire de l’Ueste”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Յորքշիր”
- Asturian: “Yorkshire del Oeste”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Yorkşir”
- Balinese: “Yorkshire Kauh”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Yorkshire”
- Bavarian: “West Yorkshire”
- Belarusian: “Графства Заходні Іаркшыр”
- Belarusian: “Заходні Ёркшыр”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম ইয়র্কশায়ার”
- Breton: “Kornôg Yorkshire”
- Bulgarian: “Западен Йоркшър”
- Catalan: “West Yorkshire”
- Cebuano: “West Yorkshire”
- Chinese: “西約克郡”
- Chinese: “西約郡”
- Chinese: “西约克郡”
- Chinese: “西约郡”
- Corsican: “West Yorkshire”
- Czech: “West Yorkshire”
- Czech: “Západní Yorkshire”
- Danish: “West Yorkshire”
- Dutch: “West Yorkshire”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Jorkŝiro”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Yorkshire”
- Finnish: “West Yorkshire”
- French: “Yorkshire de l’Ouest”
- French: “Yorkshire occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთ იორკშირი”
- German: “West Yorkshire”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમ યોર્કશાયર”
- Hebrew: “מערב יורקשייר”
- Hindi: “वेस्ट यॉर्कशायर”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Yorkshire”
- Hungarian: “West Yorkshire”
- Icelandic: “Vestur-Jórvíkurskíri”
- Icelandic: “Vestur-Yorkshire”
- Ido: “West Yorkshire”
- Indonesian: “Yorkshire Barat”
- Irish: “Sír Eabhraic Thiar”
- Irish: “Yorkshire Thiar”
- Italian: “West Yorkshire”
- Italian: “Yorkshire occidentale”
- Japanese: “ウェスト・ヨークシャー”
- Japanese: “西ヨークシャー”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್”
- Korean: “웨스트요크셔주”
- Ladin: “West Yorkshire”
- Latin: “Isuria Occidentalis”
- Latvian: “Rietumjorkšīra”
- Latvian: “Vestjorkšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Jorkšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “West Yorkshire”
- Macedonian: “Западен Јоркшир”
- Manx: “Yorkshire Heear”
- Marathi: “वेस्ट यॉर्कशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “West Yorkshire”
- Northern Frisian: “West Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “West Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “West Yorkshire”
- Norwegian: “West Yorkshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yorkshire de l’Oèst”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “West Þriðing”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Йоркшир”
- Persian: “یورکشایر غربی”
- Persian: “یورکشر غربی”
- Polish: “West Yorkshire”
- Portuguese: “West Yorkshire”
- Quechua: “West Yorkshire”
- Romanian: “West Yorkshire”
- Russian: “Вест-Йоркшир”
- Russian: “Западный Йоркшир”
- Russian: “Уэст-Йоркшир”
- Scots: “Wast Yorkshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Eabhraig an Iar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Iorc an Iar”
- Serbian: “Западни Јоркшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “West Yorkshire”
- Sicilian: “West Yorkshire”
- Sindhi: “اولهه يارڪشائر”
- Slovak: “West Yorkshire”
- Slovenian: “West Yorkshire”
- Slovenian: “Zahodni Yorkshire”
- Spanish: “Yorkshire del Oeste”
- Swedish: “West Yorkshire”
- Tajik: “Йоркшири Ғарбӣ”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு யோர்கஷீர்”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Йоркшир”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ యార్క్ షైర్”
- Thai: “เวสต์ยอร์กเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Batı Yorkshire”
- Turkish: “Törensel Batı Yorkshire Kontluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Західний Йоркшир”
- Urdu: “مغربی یارکشائر”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ یارکشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de West York”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Yorkshire”
- Vietnamese: “West Yorkshire”
- Volapük: “West Yorkshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “West Yorkshire”
- Welsh: “Gorllewin Swydd Efrog”
- Western Panjabi: “لہندا یارکشائر”
- Western Panjabi: “لیندا یارکشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “西约克郡”
- Yiddish: “מערב יארקשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “西約郡”
Yorkshire: Highlights
Notable places include Sheffield and York.
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