Yorkshire
Yorkshire has a strong cultural identity and offers visitors a wonderful variety of thriving urban centres, important historic towns and world renowned countryside.
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North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in northern England.
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in the north of England.
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is the southern county of Yorkshire in the north of England.
East Yorkshire
East Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in the north of England.
Yorkshire
- Locality with 3,980,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 285 feet (87 metres)
- Description: historic county of England
- Also known as“County of York”“God’s Own County”“Yorkshire, England”
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Latitude of center
54° north
Longitude of center
-1.5° or 1° 30′ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yorkshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Yorkshire”
- Arabic: “يوركشاير”
- Armenian: “Յորքշիր”
- Azerbaijani: “Yorkşir”
- Basque: “Yorkshire konderria”
- Basque: “Yorkshire”
- Belarusian: “Графства Ёркшыр”
- Belarusian: “Ёркшыр”
- Bhojpuri: “यार्कशायर”
- Bhojpuri: “यॉर्कशायर”
- Breton: “Yorkshire”
- Bulgarian: “Йоркшър”
- Catalan: “Yorkshire”
- Cebuano: “Yorkshire”
- Central Kurdish: “یۆرکشایر”
- Chechen: “Йоркшир”
- Chinese: “約克郡”
- Chinese: “約郡”
- Chinese: “约克郡”
- Chinese: “约郡”
- Cornish: “Conteth Evrek”
- Czech: “Yorkshire”
- Danish: “Yorkshire”
- Dutch: “Graafschap York”
- Dutch: “Yorkshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يوركشير”
- Esperanto: “graflando Jorko”
- Esperanto: “Jorkio”
- Esperanto: “Jorkŝiro”
- Estonian: “Yorkshire”
- Finnish: “Yorkshire”
- French: “Yorkshire”
- Galician: “Yorkshire”
- Georgian: “იორკშირი”
- German: “Yorkshire and the Humber”
- German: “Yorkshire”
- Greek: “Γιορκσάιρ”
- Greek: “Γιόρκσερ”
- Greek: “Γιόρκσιρ”
- Hebrew: “יורקשייר”
- Hindi: “यॉर्कशायर”
- Hungarian: “Yorkshire”
- Icelandic: “Jórvíkurskíri”
- Icelandic: “Yorkshire”
- Ido: “Yorkshire”
- Indonesian: “Yorkshire”
- Interlingua: “Yorkshire”
- Irish: “Sír Eabhrac”
- Irish: “Yorkshire”
- Italian: “Yorkshire”
- Japanese: “ヨークシャー”
- Kannada: “ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್”
- Kannada: “ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್”
- Kazakh: “Йоркшир”
- Korean: “요크셔”
- Kurdish: “Yorkshire”
- Latin: “Isuria”
- Latvian: “Jorkšīra”
- Lezghian: “Йоркшир”
- Lithuanian: “Jorkšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Yorkshire”
- Macedonian: “Јоркшир”
- Malay: “Yorkshire”
- Marathi: “यॉर्कशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yorkshire”
- Mingrelian: “იორკშირი”
- Mingrelian: “იორქშირი”
- Nepali: “योर्कसायर”
- Northern Frisian: “Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yorkshire”
- Norwegian: “Yorkshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yorkshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eoferwicscīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eoforwīcsċīr”
- Ossetian: “Йоркшир”
- Persian: “یورکشایر”
- Persian: “یورکشر و هامبر”
- Persian: “یورکشر”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Yorkshire”
- Polish: “Jorkszyr”
- Polish: “Yorkshire”
- Portuguese: “Yorkshire”
- Romanian: “Yorkshire”
- Russian: “Йоркшир”
- Scots: “Yorkshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Eabhrac”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Eabhraig”
- Serbian: “Јоркшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yorkshire”
- Sindhi: “يارڪشائر”
- Slovak: “Yorkshire”
- Slovenian: “Yorkshire”
- Spanish: “condado de York”
- Spanish: “York”
- Spanish: “Yorkshire”
- Swedish: “Yorkshire”
- Tajik: “Йоркшир”
- Tamil: “யார்க்சையர்”
- Thai: “ยอร์กเชอร์”
- Thai: “ยอร์คเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Yorkshire”
- Ukrainian: “Йоркшир”
- Urdu: “یارکشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de York”
- Vietnamese: “Yorkshire”
- Volapük: “Yorkshire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Efrog”
- Western Frisian: “Yorkshire”
- Western Panjabi: “یارکشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “约克郡”
- Yiddish: “יארקשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “約郡”
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