Hampshire, sometimes historically Southamptonshire, Hamptonshire, (abbr. Hants), or the County of Southampton, is a
county on the south coast of
England. The county borders (clockwise from West),
Dorset,
Wiltshire,
Berkshire,
Surrey and
West Sussex. The county has an area of 1,455
square miles (3,769
km²) and at its widest points is approximately 55 miles (90 km) east-west and 40 miles (65 km) north-south. The
county town is
Winchester situated at . The
2001 census gave the population of the administrative county as 1.24 million; the ceremonial county also includes the cities of
Portsmouth and
Southampton, which are administratively independent, and has a total population of 1.6 million.
Christchurch and
Bournemouth, within the
historic borders of the county, were made part of the non-metropolitan county of
Dorset in 1974.
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